Lavender Grace Kent

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Lavender Grace Kent was raised in Northern California surrounded by artists and musicians. She began performing at the age of 4 and has continued to study and embrace the arts ever since.

Her studies have taken her to: NYC where she studied jazz and world rhythms at the New School for Social Research, The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow Scotland, and Porto Allegre, Brazil where she took part in community arts project with local film makers and musicians.

Within the medium of music and poetry, stories have the ability to transform into a universal language. This language transcends boundaries of geography, race and gender. Lavender endeavors to sustain our human connectedness within our communities by encouraging cultural exchange, through drum, poetry, song, dance.

"They say a poet should never avert their eyes in order to know the world. It is my intention to preserve and nurture the well being of our peoples culture with my eyes wide open."   ~ Lavender Grace kent

Natural Progression

This has been a natural progression
The music
How it has formed
Amalgamation of history,
era of blending.
The environment of "Free Music"
Accompanies the "Free Love"
Inception of g-gnomes experimental laboratory chromosomes
Proud new generation, sun kissed
Blossom children
Reinvent Jazz with breath
Each and every
Look from whence folk came
Embrace lyric
Smithy of word
Dig
The Beat
simple Speak
Watch it round
Come
Natural Progression

...begin
...again

          ~ Lavender Grace Kent

Prelude-Purpose Sweat

Have trouble
stay true
Distractions pull
away from a good and humble place
a coldness
chill persists

heart
needs help

Interlude-

I can not
be
who
I need to be

Until
You
are
who
you need to be

You see

We are all one people
All one nation

Gather in around

let us heal our relations
let us heal our relations

I am
Brave
Bold
Bountiful
Beautiful
beyond
bounds

wont
willing
wilt
with out

giving heartily all that I have
soulfully centered
certainly skilled
screaming out joy
when my heart is filled

Conclude-

I
can
not
be

who

I
need
to
be

until

You
are
who

you
need
to be

         ~ Lavender Grace Kent

Affirmative

There are so many thoughts
that swell in the ocean of my heart

that tip the top of my list
to the bottom of my well
bottom of my well

and ask for more
for
the
divine

above the line
wont settle for less

And I will no rest take
until the ash is incinerate of my bones
that will no longer be of my home

No grave will I resent

No sin will I repent

I will live a full
LIFE

with what time
I have
to breathe
to die
to be beauty in the eyes of cosmic justice

I will not let up
till I be dust

           ~ Lavender Grace Kent

 

SCHOOLS & COMMUNITY_________________________
Mendocino Community High School
Fort Bragg High School
Fort Bragg High School Poetry Slam Teach Coach

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