Love Letters to the Earth Welcoming One Home to Their Nature

By Brigid Hopkins

Step into a powerful living prayer and reconnect with nature in this three-volume poetry collection.

Artfully embarking on a beautiful and profound journey through the depths of nature and human experience, Love Letters to the Earth is a thought-provoking three-volume poetry collection that seeks to illuminate the shared world we inhabit together and enrich our inner environments on our shared travels through life. With flowing prose and vivid imagery that bursts from every page, these poems will speak to your soul and let your imagination roam free, exploring how our personal wellbeing resonates with the health of our homes, communities, and collective.

Lovingly crafted as a deeply authentic and accessible read that opens the door to poetry, these three volumes initiate readers into a life-affirming artform, examining the challenges facing ourselves and our world, along with how we can rise above them. These volumes encourage and challenge you to rediscover your lost or waning connection with nature, rekindle your boundless passion for life, and strive to cultivate a mindset of health and lasting joy.

Shedding light on some of life’s deepest mysteries and puzzles, Love Letters to the Earth serves as a passionate living prayer and dedication to Mother Earth, echoing with words of healing as it cherishes our timeless connection with the world. These poems help us unshackle ourselves from conditioning, emerge into our authentic selves, and develop a deep appreciation for our shared experiences as human beings.

• Language: English
• Publisher: lulu press
• Release date: Mar 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798985732429

Book preview

Love Letters to the Earth

Welcome,

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Love Letters to the Earth began as a form of communication to the tiny spaces precursors of light. For years, I wandered around looking for a place that felt like home. It is through inner explorations I came to find a home. Each day spent on Earth is a remarkable experience of HOME ( Healing, Oasis, Materialize, Evolution).

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As your fingers grace these pages, I hope that you feel a sense of homecoming. Each letter is strung into a word, shaped into a poem or story. I see these letters as a song of healing and honoring to the great body we all inhabit.

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Yours in radical living,

Brigid Hopkins

Love Letters to the Earth

Welcoming One Home to Their Nature

Brigid Hopkins

Copyright © 2022 by Brigid Hopkins

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ISBN: 979-8-9857324-2-9

Cover Design by: Nskvsky

Formatting by: Michael Davie

Contents

Ancestral Soil

Awakened Senses

Balloons

Beloved

Bridges

Buttons

Change the Lens

Chrysalis

Clarity

Collective EmPATHy

Creator

Crushing Coal

Cycles

Darkened

Earth

Degrees

Delicate

Diluting

Does the Tulip know

Earth Day

Ebb-n-Flow

Feminine Rising

Feral

Firing the Perfectionist

First Flake

Footsteps

Full Taurus Moon

Gaia

Gateway

Generations

Get Back Up

Hands of Eternity

Heaviness of Growth

Hollow

Hope

Hoverfly

How much More?

I am the Underdog

I bow to thee

Illuminators

In my unconscious

Independence

Innocence

Interbeing

Induction

Introduce yourself

Illumination

Keep Your Eyes Open

Labyrinth

Lands of Origination

Legacy Resume’

Let Love In

Letting you Down

Longing

Luna

Maestro

Magnets

Messenger

Mirror, Mirror

Mother’s Day

My Ache

Old Pants

One Source

Overlap

Parents of the World

Precarious

Remembering

Revolution

RiskTakers

Sacred Traveler

Seeds

Self Love Manifesto

Simplicity

Sometimes

Storms we Weather

Strategies

Sweetness

Tear Collective

Temptation

The Children

The Circles

The Earth

The Selfie

Thought Hygiene

Thunder Moon

Tired

To Heal

Unity

Vibrancy

Walk with Me

Wings

Winter

About the Author

Ancestral Soil

The images described are softer moments from a week of deep processing

Exploring the cavern of the wounded self

I am working through the rougher layers of old skin

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The skin of desperation

I desperately wanted to be the light in my parent's eyes

The small child within that wanted to mean something in their world

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To be relieved of the weight of their shattered sense of self

I ran behind them, picking up the pieces, trying to make sense of their mess

I've carried the weight because, at the time, I thought I could help

I wanted them to be ok so that I could be ok

Even though my dad never lived with us, I still carried his pieces

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I sat in council with these shards, witnessing the storylines that once felt sane to manage

The skin is exfoliating

I no longer find comfort in working with other people's puzzle pieces in this space

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I am nourishing my relationship with myself by being with beauty

Community

Harvesting fresh spring foods, allowing them time to integrate as I come back from exploring within

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Soaking my feet in the rolling river's grace

Allowing calluses of confusion to soften into a state of presence where the wholeness of self is resting now

Not some fictional idea of self, but the light that pulses without hesitation throughout eternity

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Light is the reality of who we are

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We came to digest the troubles and compost them into a renewed soil for the generations to come

To relieve the future by dealing with the present from the state of wholeness

The shards steadily compressed to grains of sand

The sands our children will play on, near the rolling rivers

Their feet will know

Their hearts will beat with the remembering of all who gave so much for their world to be actual

Autumn

I could feel your approach

Before you rounded the bend

The desire for warmth

Conversations that stretch my ears

Fires

Nestled in the den

Of Autumn's

Hands

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Crackling of acorns

Beneath my feet

Damp breaths

That only autumn

Hangs

I'm slowing

Turning inwardly

Won't you stay awhile

Tell me of your adventures

That blow you closer to me

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It's been a whole season

My friend

Your embrace

Is most welcomed

Your hues invite

Me to relish my own

Spectrum and depths

Lay my head to reflect

On what is turning back

Into the soil

Of my life's experience

Awakened Senses

Sensuality has been on my mind

Curious to experiment with ways to nurture the essence of Eros without people

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A new morning practice where I wander and follow what allures me

Spent time looking at puddles from varying angles

Watched a gaggle of geese tend to their fuzzy goslings

Sang to the swift current in the nearby river

I've also taken pleasure in removing garbage from the forest

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These experiences tap into a new channel of pleasure energy that I didn't know was possible!

Deeply nourishing,