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Walter E. Harris III (known to fellow poets and friends as “Mankh”)
started writing in elementary school, and over the years and miles
and times spent not writing.. the poetry (especially) has taken hold
and shaped his creative urges and thus much of his life.
My writings are mostly inspired by Nature, various world mythologies
and spiritual pathways, historical and current world situations,
listening to music, and my personal path which is a combination of
Kaballah, Tantra, and Alchemy, as well as the Chinese
wisdom-teachings of the Tao Te Ching (Thou Dei Jinn)
and I Ching (Ye Jinn).
Some of my strongest poetic influences (and enjoyable reads) are Rumi,
Gerard Manley Hopkins, Walt Whitman, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost,
e.e. cummings, William Stafford, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hafiz
and Kabir, as well as the ‘beat’ poets, Japanese haiku, plus a somewhat
inexplicable connection with the Muse which includes the nine traditional
muses of ancient Greece.
My writings aim to reflect truth, uplift or calm the reader,
and present information that may help the reader (in some way)
with his or her life-journey.
(photo by Hard Work Press, Inc)
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