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voices out of the West, mostly poetry, personal to planetary

Kirk Lumpkin

San Francisco, California

Kirk Lumpkin is a poet, performer, lyricist, environmentalist, cultural worker, and event organizer. He’s the author of two books of poetry, In Deep and Co-Hearing. He’s released two poetry/music CDs, 

The Word-Music Continuum and 

Sound Poems. )

Kirk's web site is 

www.KirkLumpkin.com

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The Real Poetry

This

 or any other

 poem

 whether you

 read it,

 hear it,

 or both

Is at best

 a taste

 or signpost

 to the real

 poetry

 which cannot be held

 within a structure

 of words.

The real poetry

 feeds the heart,

 sings in the mind,

 and like the energy

 hidden

 inside

 each atom,

 like the Tao

 is simultaneously alive

 in all things,

But is most

 accessible

 to us

 in nature,

 in love,

 and in the way

 we live,

In how

 we embody

 its rhythm,

 beauty,

 and trueness,

 its synchronicity

 with the universe.

And the deepest art

 that we can practice:

 learning how to be

 living poetry.