The Soul Whispers Poetryâ is the first in a series of poetry books. Fifty-six poems, each a relationship healing from the soul to humanity as a whole and individuals awakening to their paths.
Poetry to help navigate the opening spiritual path ahead. To come to grips with change and deeper connection to the soul.
Complicated spiritual concepts can be easily understood through Vikkiâs poetry. She hopes to demystify the stages of growth along a true path to peace, and show steps to follow to feel like you truly belong.
Vikki is a clairvoyant, an empath, an animal whisperer and an animal medium. She is able to speak to the spirits of nature and animals, and has great insight into and knowledge of light, which she expresses freely in her poems.
Complicated spiritual concepts can be easily understood through Vikkiâs poetry. She hopes to demystify the stages of growth along a true path to peace, and show steps to follow to feel like you truly belong.
Chapter One:Animals
Chapter Two:Nature
Chapter Three:Self
Chapter Four: Devotion
Chapter Five:The beauty of Animals
Chapter Six: Nature, Our Mate
Chapter Seven: Set the Self Free
Chapter Eight:Loving Devotion
The Soul Whispers Poetryâ is the first in a series of poetry books. Fifty-six poems, each a relationship healing from the soul to humanity as a whole and individuals awakening to their paths.
Poetry to help navigate the opening spiritual path ahead. To come to grips with change and deeper connection to the soul.
Complicated spiritual concepts can be easily understood through Vikkiâs poetry. She hopes to demystify the stages of growth along a true path to peace, and show steps to follow to feel like you truly belong.
Vikki is a clairvoyant, an empath, an animal whisperer and an animal medium. She is able to speak to the spirits of nature and animals, and has great insight into and knowledge of light, which she expresses freely in her poems.
Complicated spiritual concepts can be easily understood through Vikkiâs poetry. She hopes to demystify the stages of growth along a true path to peace, and show steps to follow to feel like you truly belong.
Chapter One:Animals
Chapter Two:Nature
Chapter Three:Self
Chapter Four: Devotion
Chapter Five:The beauty of Animals
Chapter Six: Nature, Our Mate
Chapter Seven: Set the Self Free
Chapter Eight:Loving Devotion
INTRODUCTION
When I was a teenager, I wrote poetry for myself, which I wasnât confident enough to share with anyone else. In the 1990s I, like many, discovered the New Age movement and meditation. I read many books and in 2012 started going to regular spiritual seminars, retreats, musical meditations and devotional events at a multi-faith temple. During a Sisterhood of the Rose retreat, all of the participants were asked to write a poem. That was when I wrote âMy Rose Petal Heartâ, which a couple of people said was good. I know it felt good to be writing poetry again.Â
After the seminar, I wrote a few more poems. They sat in a little book for a few years until I was researching for my upcoming memoir. I came across a magazine that published new poetsâ work. I decided to send one of the magazines the poem written at the Sisterhood of the Rose seminar. In September 2019, The International Poetry Digest Monthly published âMy Rose Petal Heartâ and it was picked to be in their âBest Poems of 2019â issue. I sent another poem, and in October 2019 the same magazine published âBitternessâ. In July 2020, The Cambridge-Hall Poetry Journal published âAustralian Brumby Loveâ.             Â
On the way to the discovery of my authentic life, I heard a voice within. It whispered poetry to inspire my journey and help me express emotions, releasing the numbness created by being part of humanity in the modern age of disconnection, and the fear and anger of changing. Being seen and heard takes self-love and belief. The beauty of words from my soul helped me connect to my heart and the love within, and to connect more deeply to myself and the universe.
It was obvious, by the rhyming going on in my mind, that I had more poems coming. I let them swirl around in my consciousness, and during meditation and spiritual practice I would capture the form and then write them down. I found the structure would come more easily the more I said yes to my soul, which I do with gratitude.Â
The Soul Whispers Poetry: contains 56 of my original poems, written during my spiritual journey.They express the deepening soul connection in my relationships to animals, nature, self and devotion.Â
 Part One: each chapter includes poems of connection and change in a modern look at what is happening in the world now, and how our hearts are calling us to connect to our uniqueness and creativity.Â
. Part Two: Forgiveness can be just as much for ourselves as for others. It comes down to the question: do I want to be right, or to be loved? Do I want to rant until I lose my peace?Â
The forgiveness I have found in my relationships with animals, other people and even humanityâs relationship with nature has been very freeing. Forgiving myself, though, has changed my life. It has meant the chance to find a deeper love, to touch the beauty of my own compassionate heart. To feel like I belong, creating a peace that is more than just relaxing â itâs a state of being comfortable in my skin.Â
If someone forgives me when I make a mistake, it strengthens our bond.Â
It is a higher spiritual practice to not only forgive myself, others and the whole of humanity, but to send love to them as well. We might not agree with the actions forgiven, but by sending love, we understand itâs for the sake of peace that we ask for loveâs help.Â
The greatest lessons in life humble us and sometimes bring us to our knees. These are the times when all it takes to get over what seems impossible is to get over ourselves. Â
In any relationship, after a little honesty, we can forgive and come to a deeper place of understanding, vulnerability and love.Â
Itâs very freeing to understand that it is more for ourselves that we forgive, than for others. We could lose our peace and allow our energy to fall in vibration for nothing. The other person, or even humanity itself, is living life totally unaware of the grudge we are holding â so really, what is the point except to give our rather arrogant ego a chance for revenge? A person or group to fight and protect us from? Our ego could start to shame us as well. It is much easier to forgive and ask for forgiveness, and find the love again.Â
 I hope to show the exquisite opportunity of forgiveness as a way to live in peace.Â
The Soul Whispers Poetry by Vikki Koplick was published by Vivid Publishing in 2021. The collection is divided into eight chapters and two sections. The About the Author note mentions, âComplicated spiritual concepts can be easily understood through Vikkiâs poetry. She hopes to demystify the stages of growth along a true path to peace, and show steps to follow to feel like you truly belong.â I will agree spiritual concepts are brought down from airy and ungraspable ideas, to concrete objects. Many of the poems are focused around animals and humans more than ideas or concepts. Chapters one and five have themes of animals. Australian animals are the subjects of odes, where the speaker remarks, âSweet Orangutan, wild animal, we wish we could stop you dying. / We feel your love and thank you so much. / Sweet Orangutan, now you are flyingâ (âOrangutan Loveâ). Koalas, orangutans, and magpies occupy Koplickâs pastoral poems.Â
However, chapter two has a theme of nature, which one may assume would be landscape poems, but there is an introduction into more cosmic thoughts, and more ethereal contemplations as well, as in the poem âEarthling Childâ, which raises the question, âHow can you kill the mother of another dimension?â
The sense of direction given in some of the poems around self forgiveness does make me feel relaxed, mostly, and produces a sense of earthly community. The overarching tone of the collection is a positive, uplifting tone: âI really love animals. I hope we / Learn to live like the cow and the fowl, / To forgive all human beings, to love unconditionallyâ (âAnimals Conscious Somehowâ). Chapter Five circles back to the beauty of animals with emphasis on the relationship between humans and animals (and how it is a positive relationship). Some poems call out to those who reforest and donât protect the land: âIn a country as wild and free as Australia, / Why are the brumbies excluded from care?â (Australian Brumby Love).
There is recognition of darkness and struggle in The Soul Whispers Poetry, as well. Chapter Three has the theme of âselfâ. Many poems do discuss self-value, self-awareness, self-criticism: âNumbness, telling stories, no one cares as we hear the / Criticism and again, want to hide from what is awakening insideâ (Feel, a Way to Heal). But these moments of darkness and doubt do not overwhelm the collection. Chapter seven is titled âSet the Self Freeâ involves poems asking forgiveness, forgiving the self and forgiving.
Chapter Four and Eightâs theme is Devotion, which focuses on a committed relationship based in spirituality between the world and self. Within this subject of devotion, there is loving devotion and sacrifice. These chapters do touch on the subject of Christianity, âThe sun of God, Christâs consciousness anchored. / The path and groove, a track for humanity to follow.â (Master of Light). There are also prayers and meditation, as the poem OM KALI MA exemplifies, âOm Mother Kali Ma. / Mother Kali who looks fierce to the ego and evil around. / Mother Kali.â So the spirituality is not solely based in Christianity, but the spirituality that comes with Buddhism and being a human on a planet, as well.
The diction used throughout is low and accessible. The content and language does not feel guarded or coded. The one line I had to stop and reread a few times is: âDonât be fooled, you can feel more than you can.â (âEmpath: Not A Trend, A Vocation Insteadâ). This line does tell readers that we feel a huge range of emotions of which we cannot put words to, but the phrasing feels muddy, unclear here. There is also some old English language in a few poems, like âtheeâ, and some rhyming throughout, but not with any pattern, such as in the poem âThe Love of our Meow Meowâ: âEnjoying the light of the sun and running around with the dog. / Until again there you are, sitting on my lap, sleeping like a log. / A heart so big, with your little white whiskers. / Prettiest eyes I have ever seen, that speak more than words.â There are small moments where the lines will rhyme, but I am thankful each poem does not solely contain coupled rhymes.Â
This collection has started me on the path to feel like I truly belong here and now. I look forward to keep up this pace.