8DOI 10.2441 2/2713-184X-2023-1-65-67
ECOPOIETIC SKETCHES: WALKING WITH AN OPEN HEART
Alexander Kopytin
Alexander Kopytin is founding co-editor of the journal, Ecopoiesis: Eco-human Theory and Practice and of the book, Ecopoiesis: A New Perspective for the Expressive and Creative Therapies in the 21st-Century, as well as other books and articles, Professor at the Department of Psychology, St. Petersburg Academy of Postgraduate Pedagogical Studies (St.-Petersburg, Russian Federation)
I would like to share here my poetic sketches and photographs that I created while walking in the vicinity of St. Petersburg last summer. Poetry and photography help me preserve and process the experience of being in the natural environment and that special physical, erotic, emotional, spiritual and aesthetic experience that was accumulated at the moment of my intimate attunement to nature, awakening my ecopoietic gift.
By The Green River
Flocks of dragonflies flow around my body,
green hair glides down the shallow river of a poetic trance,
letting water into my slippery mind.
Alexander Kopytin
Watching the earth with delight,
accepting the kisses and glances of the nimble fish,
I catch her silhouette in my pupil
like a black butterfly on a flower,
left to languish in the depths of July noon.
The sky and the backwaters saw shadows and light,
the wet sheen of my body surrounded by a grove,
where, on the banks of a languid river,
clinging to the grass and inhaling the aroma of clover,
I collected the July odors
and the fragments of the green dream that entered me...
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Ecopoietic sketches: walking with an open heart
July Flowers Welcoming in the Meadow
July flowers welcoming in the meadow, between sweet clover and fireweed, I open a path. Watching the dance of dragonflies, amused by the caresses of the wind and herbs I slowly go into the shimmering depths of the lake, and above the solar disk flares up and plunges into me, overflowing me with its warmth ...
The gentle twilight is caught on my skin and in the strands of my hair,
smoothly flowing into the elegy of the night,
with its mist descending on the mirror of my dreams,
where fish lurk in coastal backwaters and catch the ecopoietic flow,
coming from the depth, until the star Altair is lit up,
overshadowing me with its light
in the constellation of the Eagle.
Reference for citations
7. Kopytin, A. (2023). Ecopoietic sketches: Walking with an open heart. Ecopoiesis: Eco-Human Theory and Practice, 4(1). [open access internet journal]. - URL: http://en.ecopoiesis.ru (d/m/y)
