Category: Nature

Silence of Nature

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Reflections on our changing relationship with the natural world, and on the climate stories unfolding around us. 

I keep wondering about a question that feels increasingly difficult to ignore: is nature speaking, or is it exhausted from trying to be heard?

Ancient landscapes can seem almost timeless, as though they have the strength to outlast us. Yet even these enduring forms of nature can change, retreat, and transform. And their change affects us too.   

Our connection with the natural world may be held in elements that are less visible, yet deeply present. Thich Nhat Hanh’s idea of interbeing reminds us that we do not exist apart from nature; we exist in relationship with it. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s work similarly speaks of kinship and reciprocity between humans and the living world. 

As my thoughts move towards our relationship with nature, I pause to consider whether the separation we create between ourselves and the natural world is only something we imagine. We breathe, consume, adapt, and exist within the same living systems that surround us. The depth of this relationship is that what happens in nature inevitably affects us. 

Today is all that we have. 

The connection may not always be visible. But it matters.  

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I moved; the leaves moved…

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Today’s poem has lived as an ongoing poem over the past couple of months. 

I first saw a bamboo plant at my friend’s home, where I was invited for lunch. As I sat beside it, one of its leaves came to rest on my shoulder. The shift, the pause, the turns, seemed to place the plant and me in motion together. 

Days after that encounter, the plant kept reconnecting through memory, gradually shaping the poem as if it were a much-needed conversation. 

As a practitioner of energy healing and someone who works with words, nature shapes my journey in ways I continue to discover. 

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Some stories linger in flowing water, in changing light, and in the quiet imagination of those who pause to notice. 

Watching sunlight scatter across the surface, I found myself wondering whether every ripple writes a story before letting it go. 

This haiku has been composed in the traditional three-line form, with conscious attention to brevity, imagery, and rhythm, while recognising the flexibility that characterises English-language haiku. 

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