Twirling Times, Spinning World - A Nature Lover's Poetic Response

Earth I Love You, and I'd like to believe we all do... at least way deep down :)

Museletter Art Meandering

Hello Lovely,

Catching a spot in your awareness to drop a download direct from the earth.

I asked to know the secrets and heard this poem arise on the wind.

There is a well of wisdom held in the core of the blueprint of life.

Much information swirls around us. Somewhat like a storm kicking up the dirt that also gives birth to flowers. This energy has both chaos and calm.

Many opinions create a spinning in our worlds. And we can find ourselves asking, what is real?

I’m not here to answer for you.

I am here to say in play that one thing we know to be true is the planet we call home is turning with the seasons big and small, and through it all we find our place.

In the whirling of the twirl we can anchor to a truth that changing times is the rhyme that holds the rhythm of existence.

Yes poetry is a vibe and while I don’t follow poetic academic protocol I do enjoy the challenge of finding my voice through a flow of words I feel from living this one sweet life. I am listening and responding, and through it understanding.

In an effort to land my two feet to the ground I took notes of what was spun around by the ways of the universe.

As I danced in pursuit of wanting to remain true to what I love the most, planet green and blue, and all its living beings imbued as unique offering.

I heard once the earth describes as a potato. As someone living in “potato valley” (Pemberton) I decided to investigate…

As things swing wildly out of unison I still hear the song of the one heart singing.

One thing we all have in common is the ground on which we live, the earth and gravity that hold us here, together.

I really hope that love will find its way forward. I continue to give energy and care to this vision of unity in diversity.

Regardless of all that is transpiring, I am still over the moon in-love with this place - the magical planet earth.

On the tail of earth day or week, and poetry month, I wanted to share a slice of my life where I create in devotion to loving the heck out of this crazy beautiful home we share. Each day I live is a writing of a love letter.

Please enjoy this short(ish!) poem and have a fine day!

~Nichola Napora

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This globe is spinning 
on the rhythm 
of many realities driven 
through varying ways of living 

within this great mystery

The globe is both the riddle 
and alive with the answers 
of how things beyond sides 
find the shifting middle

functioning in harmony

the transforming portal of blue and green 
presents as lumpy, luminously
brilliant process ever creating
solutions moving love forward 

discovering its own beauty manifested

held in seemingly infinite abyss 
dotted with stars and more
energy masses and gases
sparkling bliss

against nothingness unfolding forever

appearing within eternity 
and changing in sync with plurality 
forming endless executions 
of enigmatic wonder

life is miracle

change is obstacle and opportunity
performer and witness
communication through contact
and here I sit amidst

in the tunnel of my perception making a stage

my senses in motion 
informed by the coming
and going of fluid tension 
intertwined reactions

within the echo of embodied presence

and here I go on with the flow 
leaning into the pause to notice 
what is real before the noise steals 
the feeling of awe 

my meditation in poetry is the real disruption

a poem emerges in play 
with the vibration 
composing creation
the potent void coexisting

sustaining the revolving of this ever changing sphere

slowly softly 
nothing is static
fiercely magnetic 
chaotically dancing 

pursuing time the mandala patterns in fractals converging now.

N<>N

Earth We Love You - A Mixed Media Response

My goal was to bring you a sense of calm in the choas, the dance of life.

Was I successful? Let me know in the comments, with a like, with a share, with an inner smile, whatever your style, and if you still have a moment I’ve put some nourishing insights from a fave publication and author below.

Be well,

Nichola Napora

Thich Nhat Hanh’s Love Letter to the Earth

The earth is you. You are the earth. When you realize there is no separation, says the late Thich Nhat Hanh, you fall completely in love with this beautiful planet.

We often forget that the planet we are living on has given us all the elements that make up our bodies. The water in our flesh, our bones, and all the microscopic cells inside our bodies all come from the earth and are part of the earth. The earth is not just the environment we live in. We are the earth and we are always carrying her within us. (From Lion’s Roar newsletter)

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Nichola Napora is an Earth Steward, Imagination Guardian & Scribe of the Mystery.

She creates art as marks on a trail blazed along a path of discovery. The spiral always returns to use the keys at the portal of integration. So, she keeps a pocket full of treasures and measures her success by the delight of embodying a life lived exploring.

Following the river as forest friend, rising as waking dream weaver, and listening as guardian of the wild where she is a steward savouring the spaces between.

Breathing with eyes that hold sky while feet find a place on the earth, she plays.

To this newsletter I bring my translations of these wild mysterious experiences combined with my love activism through art, poetry and story. If you’ve read this far you are a rock star and I am grateful for you too. When we witness this beautiful earth and each other’s experiences - this is what creates a truly rich life.

Mystic Peaks Studio acknowledges with great respect that we live and work on the traditional territories of the Lil̓wat7úl (Lil’wat) Nation and the St'át'imc Nation.

We offer our work in gratitude to the one song of the wild. On this jewel we ride.

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