World Poetry Day - Poems about Life, Love, and Nature

Each March 21st, on World Poetry Day - while Spring starts blossoming - I celebrate by writing poems and retreating in a spiritual and creative state of mind. 

I started writing poems at the age of 12. Yet, the first time, I didn’t realize I had composed one. 

I always like to think poetry has chosen me and not vice-versa. Later I understood it was the only possible way for my voice to find its way out to the world.
It is the most intimate way I express myself, remindings me to watch at things with different eyes and a new spirit. 

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On this day, I will share three poems about life, love, and nature - written and read by me - as an excerpt from the book One day I was born, and I found my voice within, which will be published at the end of 2023.

Pic by @Aldebaran S

Me & the Universe

I was all,
I was everything.

Yet,
I was nothing,
I was never.

Yet,
I am forever.

In this universe
Finite and infinite
I am.

Pic by @Jonathan Forage

We met at the bonfire

I don’t know
if one day we will ever be able
to lie down on the grass of a summer night
to look at the sky covered with stars
humid hot in the intense green.

But I like to think
that this moment
has already happened
in a past life,
in a parallel universe.

Maybe under a different form,
you were a star
I was a jungle bush.
Maybe you were the clear water
where the sky could reflect its beauty
and I was the nature hugging the earth.

In this life, this journey together,
you are my water my soil my roots
the freedom to love and be myself
the fire that burns my soul

My present
in a life to come.

Pic by @Amelia Barklid

Floating

From the place I come from
They teach us since kids
To not be afraid of the sea

With its immensity
Waves of power
And impossibility to resist
Or fight against it.

I feel light

Even though the current takes me away
And my body gets tired
I let the sea take me down and up
As it pleases.

I feel small

And no matter how dangerous it is
How immense and powerful
When I swim in its vastness
I know we are one

Me and the sea,
The sea and the universe.

I feel helpless

And yet my energy gets sucked in
And when the wave slaps me violently
It reminds me that's the only place

I feel safe.

Because my fears get carried away
I sink
And yet
I am light again.

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