Aloha!
The part of teaching from the Light that is hardest to express is that it cannot divorce the student's brain and soul. I am no longer comfortable with leaving the spiritual aspect of the world out of teaching about the world. The humanities, the sciences, mathematics -- these are information about the human soul. Literature should be taught for its lessons about ourselves. Then it is useful. Science should be taught for what it shows us about how we look at things.
At heart, when you divorce spirituality from the rest of education, you create a dried-up information base. Since it is dried up, it is easy to divide any object of attention into smaller pieces and analyze the pieces separately. We then conclude that we have "understood" the object.
But we have not, because we have missed the Spirit that imbues it. We know what the object is made of, but we still do not know what it is.
This separatism pervades human thought because the immanent Spirit is left out of our perceptions. Teaching from the Light puts the pieces back together. We write from our reading, read to our writing. We encounter math, science, physics, story-telling, art and music in their original wholeness on the beach, in the forest, wherever we go. If we understand what we see as expressions of the One Spirit, we understand these things in their wholeness, not separately.
The result is systemic thinking -- making choices and reacting for everyone involved, with the knowledge that all things are imbued with a living Spirit and so "everyone" also means "everything." In the terms used by alchemy, the leaden human soul sees only divisions and categories. The golden soul sees a single Body that includes all things. We are Its arteries, Its vessels, Its nerve ganglions. Our word for it is God.
We connect to It at the deepest place of our own soul, and this is where creative inspiration comes from. By daring to connect to the God inside ourselves, we hear the Sacred energy in words, in music, we see it in art. And we are so stricken and pierced by the beauty of it that we dare to
disturb the sounds of silence. We find our voice, because it is the voice of the Sacred, and now we allow It to speak through us.
A Light
Teacher, then, would teach music composition by first training the student to go to this God-place inside his or her own soul, and listen at that Portal for the music of the world. A Light Teacher of
literacy skills would start from the same skill, and guide the student to listen for a flow of words at the Portal. The art student will watch for visionary perceptions, visual aspects of that glory.
Then and only then, can the act of creation begin. Your independence as a creator expresses through the way you bring what you have seen and heard to fruition. That is, I hear music at the portal and I render it as best I am able with my limited skills. It comes out sounding like blues polyphony, because that's what I play.
Mozart might listen at the same Portal within himself and produce a classical symphony, because his skills were different from and greater than my own. The final result is entirely personal, but it is driven by a universal Flame that others recognize and are drawn to, like hungry moths looking for that Light.
The Flame conveys emotion to the observer, and Eric Clapton said the ability to communicate emotion is the difference between a good guitarist and a great guitarist.
Dr. Matt
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Teaching from the Light
Aloha again, mysterious readers!
Following on the heels of my last blog is the question, so how do you teach the arts once you have learned to enter the Light? This is the great experiment unfolding Thursday nights at Small Town Coffee in Kapa'a.
The Light changes teaching a lot. I'll write about the first change in this blog.
First of all, if I and my students are parts of the same thing, as the Light has taught me, then they draw from the same pool of inspiration as I. Jung called it the collective unconscious.
But we think of our minds as closed boxes that only we can access. Why did Jung think the unconscious is collective rather than personal? Random events reflected his patients' psychological breakthroughs so frequently he concluded that the archetypes were affecting physical reality, and must therefore be separate realities, not just thought patterns. They must, therefore, exist in a collective space that we all can access.
We know now that thought patterns can and do affect physical reality, so his reasoning is not inevitable.
But the idea that there is a collective space we all can access at our deepest psychological level is thousands of years old. It is called immanence. Creative inspiration comes from this all-permeating Consciousness. That means we access inspiration by going down through our own issues and finding the collective patterns that underlie them. We do this by creating an unguided fiction (writing with no initial outline or plan). Because it is unguided, our own deep patterning will organize it, thereby revealing itself. It's the same principle as a Rorschach ink-blot test.
This uncovering of the deep patterns underlying reality is what drives the reader on through a story. It may look like seeking the solution to a problem, or solving a crime, or courting and winning a beloved. But always there is something covered up in the beginning which is gradually uncovered.
How do I get my students there, teaching from the Light? By going where they are. Every human consciousness is a portal into this collective space of human wisdom. I give my writing students enormous, vague writing topics like "create an island" so they can create from their own hearts. They reach down through their own psychological issues to the collective unconscious we all tap into, producing islands that reflect their own inner depths.
In essay-writing classes also, I give students very large topics -- community, partnership, any successful exertion of personal power, any dramatic act of charity -- so they can find themselves in the topic. The results are personal statements which use the formulas and devices of the essay-writer to express the writer's own access to the collective depths of wisdom. That, to my understanding, is a successful essay.
But the trick is the same as with fiction -- give yourself room to explore your own opinions, and you will find they lead down into deep collective patterns of thought. My classes are designed to give my students room to discover themselves inside the essay, because that's what makes an essay work.
So the classes become student-driven -- I am a facilitator, a traffic cop, a library of information and a fount of enthusiasm so they can write their hearts in essay or story format.
The second change that teaching from the Light brings about in the classroom, is that we need to abandon our anxieties about excellence, and treat the act of creation as a human birth-right, not the domain of a privileged few. We are creative animals like giraffes have long necks. What other animal tells stories or draws pictures? But publication has brought the greatest creations of the human race so vividly before us that we have lost our lip, like an old trumpet player, and now we are afraid to blow our notes. This is the "sound of silence" Paul Simon sang about,
In my next post I will say more about the second change -- daring to disturb the sounds of silence -- and apply both changes to how a Light Teacher teaches music composition, as well as to the Light Teaching of literacy skills.
Following on the heels of my last blog is the question, so how do you teach the arts once you have learned to enter the Light? This is the great experiment unfolding Thursday nights at Small Town Coffee in Kapa'a.
The Light changes teaching a lot. I'll write about the first change in this blog.
First of all, if I and my students are parts of the same thing, as the Light has taught me, then they draw from the same pool of inspiration as I. Jung called it the collective unconscious.
But we think of our minds as closed boxes that only we can access. Why did Jung think the unconscious is collective rather than personal? Random events reflected his patients' psychological breakthroughs so frequently he concluded that the archetypes were affecting physical reality, and must therefore be separate realities, not just thought patterns. They must, therefore, exist in a collective space that we all can access.
We know now that thought patterns can and do affect physical reality, so his reasoning is not inevitable.
But the idea that there is a collective space we all can access at our deepest psychological level is thousands of years old. It is called immanence. Creative inspiration comes from this all-permeating Consciousness. That means we access inspiration by going down through our own issues and finding the collective patterns that underlie them. We do this by creating an unguided fiction (writing with no initial outline or plan). Because it is unguided, our own deep patterning will organize it, thereby revealing itself. It's the same principle as a Rorschach ink-blot test.
This uncovering of the deep patterns underlying reality is what drives the reader on through a story. It may look like seeking the solution to a problem, or solving a crime, or courting and winning a beloved. But always there is something covered up in the beginning which is gradually uncovered.
How do I get my students there, teaching from the Light? By going where they are. Every human consciousness is a portal into this collective space of human wisdom. I give my writing students enormous, vague writing topics like "create an island" so they can create from their own hearts. They reach down through their own psychological issues to the collective unconscious we all tap into, producing islands that reflect their own inner depths.
In essay-writing classes also, I give students very large topics -- community, partnership, any successful exertion of personal power, any dramatic act of charity -- so they can find themselves in the topic. The results are personal statements which use the formulas and devices of the essay-writer to express the writer's own access to the collective depths of wisdom. That, to my understanding, is a successful essay.
But the trick is the same as with fiction -- give yourself room to explore your own opinions, and you will find they lead down into deep collective patterns of thought. My classes are designed to give my students room to discover themselves inside the essay, because that's what makes an essay work.
So the classes become student-driven -- I am a facilitator, a traffic cop, a library of information and a fount of enthusiasm so they can write their hearts in essay or story format.
The second change that teaching from the Light brings about in the classroom, is that we need to abandon our anxieties about excellence, and treat the act of creation as a human birth-right, not the domain of a privileged few. We are creative animals like giraffes have long necks. What other animal tells stories or draws pictures? But publication has brought the greatest creations of the human race so vividly before us that we have lost our lip, like an old trumpet player, and now we are afraid to blow our notes. This is the "sound of silence" Paul Simon sang about,
people writing songs
that voices never share
no-one dares
disturb the sound of silence
In my next post I will say more about the second change -- daring to disturb the sounds of silence -- and apply both changes to how a Light Teacher teaches music composition, as well as to the Light Teaching of literacy skills.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
The Teacher's Journey
What a life it is! For forty years I woke up in the morning, got dressed, went to work. I thought that was all there was.
Then I woke up inside.
Now by focusing I can enter a space where my whole being seems to peel back in layers, and Light that is alive and speaks to me approaches and fuses with the Light inside me. I enter into a pool of bliss in which there is only One, and it is both God and me. It is the classic mystical experience, but it has become immediately available to me.
How can we understand the changes that brings on? I used to be an English teacher. I am still a teacher - a good one. But the Light experiences change one's agenda. I am a different person now, than I was before I knew such ecstatic fusion with the Sacred was even possible. You can't move in and out of bliss experiences regularly without losing your murderous edge.
I stopped fighting with people. That made it hard to be a teacher. Teachers are under constant pressure from parents, students and administration. It is a continuous battle for all of us, which we win by staying calm. But I am no longer interested in fighting. I think it is a basic failure to comprehend the situation, and that basic failure permeates education.
What is the situation? There is only the Light. There is just One Thing. We are all pieces of it. If I hit another, I have hit my mother, my father, myself. It is better, then, not to hit. That's what the Light taught me. It is simple and direct and nobody understands it. We just keep fighting.
So after a period of shock during which I departed from one teaching job and stopped seeking a career position with the other, I am rebuilding the whole "teacher" idea, to offer the classes I am able to offer now. They are different in three important ways.
One is that they will be conducted in the world, not in a classroom. I am presently blessed by being able to use Small Town Coffee in Kapa'a as an evening venue. Thank you, Anni!
Another difference is that they are all about how to do something. Literary studies are strangely unreal -- they don't do anything but produce more literary studies. In private classes at Small Town Coffee during the last school year I have been making my literary PhD useful by using it to help people do their own creative writing. My book How to Write Heroic Tales, which has evolved from those classes, should be available at Amazon some time soon. Thank you, students!
Since I am also an active composer who has produced about twenty hours of classical-blues polyphony in the last 3 years, I am going to teach people how to write polyphonic pop music, expanding the principles of twelve-bar-blues into larger patterns. And since I have 20 years of training and experience as a woodworker, specializing in wood ornament, I am going to teach people to make carved / veneered boxes. Every course has to result in a useful product of some kind.
The third difference is something I have established through years of experiment and observation: creative inspiration comes from the Light. My creative life has spiked sharply upwards as I learned to contact and communicate with the Light. And I will teach my students how to contact the Light themselves and use it either for prayer or creative inspiration. Kauai is a very strong place for the Light experience, which is why I am here. That will be a part of every course.
I doubt if I could teach that in any school but my own. Perhaps deep post-graduate work always brings one to such distant outposts. But so it is, at any rate, for me.
Dr. Matt Miller
Then I woke up inside.
Now by focusing I can enter a space where my whole being seems to peel back in layers, and Light that is alive and speaks to me approaches and fuses with the Light inside me. I enter into a pool of bliss in which there is only One, and it is both God and me. It is the classic mystical experience, but it has become immediately available to me.
How can we understand the changes that brings on? I used to be an English teacher. I am still a teacher - a good one. But the Light experiences change one's agenda. I am a different person now, than I was before I knew such ecstatic fusion with the Sacred was even possible. You can't move in and out of bliss experiences regularly without losing your murderous edge.
I stopped fighting with people. That made it hard to be a teacher. Teachers are under constant pressure from parents, students and administration. It is a continuous battle for all of us, which we win by staying calm. But I am no longer interested in fighting. I think it is a basic failure to comprehend the situation, and that basic failure permeates education.
What is the situation? There is only the Light. There is just One Thing. We are all pieces of it. If I hit another, I have hit my mother, my father, myself. It is better, then, not to hit. That's what the Light taught me. It is simple and direct and nobody understands it. We just keep fighting.
So after a period of shock during which I departed from one teaching job and stopped seeking a career position with the other, I am rebuilding the whole "teacher" idea, to offer the classes I am able to offer now. They are different in three important ways.
One is that they will be conducted in the world, not in a classroom. I am presently blessed by being able to use Small Town Coffee in Kapa'a as an evening venue. Thank you, Anni!
Another difference is that they are all about how to do something. Literary studies are strangely unreal -- they don't do anything but produce more literary studies. In private classes at Small Town Coffee during the last school year I have been making my literary PhD useful by using it to help people do their own creative writing. My book How to Write Heroic Tales, which has evolved from those classes, should be available at Amazon some time soon. Thank you, students!
Since I am also an active composer who has produced about twenty hours of classical-blues polyphony in the last 3 years, I am going to teach people how to write polyphonic pop music, expanding the principles of twelve-bar-blues into larger patterns. And since I have 20 years of training and experience as a woodworker, specializing in wood ornament, I am going to teach people to make carved / veneered boxes. Every course has to result in a useful product of some kind.
The third difference is something I have established through years of experiment and observation: creative inspiration comes from the Light. My creative life has spiked sharply upwards as I learned to contact and communicate with the Light. And I will teach my students how to contact the Light themselves and use it either for prayer or creative inspiration. Kauai is a very strong place for the Light experience, which is why I am here. That will be a part of every course.
I doubt if I could teach that in any school but my own. Perhaps deep post-graduate work always brings one to such distant outposts. But so it is, at any rate, for me.
Dr. Matt Miller
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Creative Writing Class Starts June 6
My next Creative Writing class will start June 6, Small Town Coffee in Kapa'a at the Kapa'a Products Fair!
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Morning Prayer
Morning Prayer
I wake, and fragments of yesterday
plunge through the tunnels of my soul –
But I let the light wash them away
and I let its sweetness make me whole.
I float in a pool of ecstatic light
Sweetened to stay soft in the fight –
Warriors whose wars will never cease
Will lie amazed in my place of peace.
Ladler in soup kitchens, tired but true,
I’ll pass out bowls of light to you.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
See you at Small Town Coffee, 7 PM tonight!
Well, it's not too late to get yourself down to Small Town Coffee to enjoy my first class on Heroic Tales -- the free one! It starts 7 PM Small Town Coffee @ the Kapa'a Products Fair. I have a great little overview planned of the ground we will cover in the next two months and how it all hangs together. I hope to see you there!
Dr. Matt
Dr. Matt
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Class in the Woman's Journey
Hard to keep writing when life wants so many things from me but I stagger on. I am deep in the Woman's Journey class for the course I have proposed. So many ideas and research of the past have come together in this!
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Hi guys!
I've had so much fun writing the Explorer Fiction class! The whole business of going into the Unknown and discovering wonders which illuminate your inner self has always fascinated me. We get to play with Marco Polo, Prester John (again!), Christopher Columbus, and a few more conquistadores for good measure.
Then there's the 19th century burst of explorer fiction -- H. G. Wells! Jules Verne! Conan Doyle! Doyle's The Lost World is an awesome tale of finding dinosaurs still alive in the South American jungle that is nothing at all like the movie Jurassic Park. His White Company is an amazing 14th century drama about the French-English wars, starring the invincible Sir Nigel Loring. Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth has been made into over a dozen movies (I personally have six of them). Can we count H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, where the Martians go into the Unknown to find us? I guess not. Shucks. What about The Matrix? Sure, why not? In that case, the world the hero leaves is the world of illusion -- the Unknown he discovers is the world the way it really is! That can be set against George Russell's weird descriptions of seeing beautiful cities and beings of light while he was walking on the moors of England. Now let's see, was he leaving the world of illusion and journeying to reality -- or was he leaving reality and journeying to illusion?
You can see the Explorer Fiction pattern can lead to a million variations, and it sure has! People never get tired of it. This is going to be one of the fun classes, for sure.
I've had so much fun writing the Explorer Fiction class! The whole business of going into the Unknown and discovering wonders which illuminate your inner self has always fascinated me. We get to play with Marco Polo, Prester John (again!), Christopher Columbus, and a few more conquistadores for good measure.
Then there's the 19th century burst of explorer fiction -- H. G. Wells! Jules Verne! Conan Doyle! Doyle's The Lost World is an awesome tale of finding dinosaurs still alive in the South American jungle that is nothing at all like the movie Jurassic Park. His White Company is an amazing 14th century drama about the French-English wars, starring the invincible Sir Nigel Loring. Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth has been made into over a dozen movies (I personally have six of them). Can we count H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, where the Martians go into the Unknown to find us? I guess not. Shucks. What about The Matrix? Sure, why not? In that case, the world the hero leaves is the world of illusion -- the Unknown he discovers is the world the way it really is! That can be set against George Russell's weird descriptions of seeing beautiful cities and beings of light while he was walking on the moors of England. Now let's see, was he leaving the world of illusion and journeying to reality -- or was he leaving reality and journeying to illusion?
You can see the Explorer Fiction pattern can lead to a million variations, and it sure has! People never get tired of it. This is going to be one of the fun classes, for sure.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Creating the Heroic Tales Classes
Aloha again!
I am working away at the classes for my Heroic tales course, starting Thursday Feb. 21 @ 7 PM at Small Town Coffee, Kapa'a Fairgrounds. I have completed the first class, which is an introduction to seven different genres of Heroic Tale. The third class on Utopias is already prepared.
I also have most of the Magic Sword tales class ready to present. Now that's an interesting one! When you cross Excalibur, the sunny, positive sword of kingship, with the dark Viking sword of doom called Tyrfing, with its three vile deeds, you get the Sword of David in the Queste del Sainte Graal, which is a sword of kingship that also commits three vile deeds. Countless magic-sword stories have been told that use aspects of these three seminal magic-sword tales. Tolkien makes gentle fun of the whole idea in his Farmer Giles of Ham, where the sword Caudimordax, or Tailbiter, is the terror of the local dragons.
I am noticing that my different Heroic Tales classes kind of support each other. Explorer Fiction is a lot like Utopian fiction, but the explorer who finds a Utopia observes and records social customs as a way of reflecting on the author's own time. The explorer in Explorer Fiction just records wonders -- monsters and strange people. The Woman's Journey, which goes beyond fame and fortune to quest for wholeness, seems to lead naturally into the Spiritual Quest, which goes beyond personal wholeness to fusion with the Sacred. And Magic Sword Tales, which usually involve the irony that using the sword on others leads to you getting killed yourself eventually, bear a complicated relationship to the Dystopias.
The whole thing is becoming so interesting I am thinking of making the eight classes I am creating into a book. These are genre studies, really, so each chapter would sail across the centuries picking out examples wherever they may be found. The Utopias class starts with the Garden of Eden and ends with a 20th century Shangri-La, so that one really covers some ground. Woman's Journey stories track back into the timeless mists of folklore. Explorer Fiction can start with the 12th century voyages of Marco Polo, and continue into the 21st century space program. Spiritual Quest stories have been with us since the Descent of Inanna 4000 years ago.
Time melts away, when you look at story telling this way. Come melt away some time with us, Thursday Feb. 21 7-8 PM at Small Town Coffee, Kapa'a Fairgrounds. The first class is free!
Dr. Matt
I am working away at the classes for my Heroic tales course, starting Thursday Feb. 21 @ 7 PM at Small Town Coffee, Kapa'a Fairgrounds. I have completed the first class, which is an introduction to seven different genres of Heroic Tale. The third class on Utopias is already prepared.
I also have most of the Magic Sword tales class ready to present. Now that's an interesting one! When you cross Excalibur, the sunny, positive sword of kingship, with the dark Viking sword of doom called Tyrfing, with its three vile deeds, you get the Sword of David in the Queste del Sainte Graal, which is a sword of kingship that also commits three vile deeds. Countless magic-sword stories have been told that use aspects of these three seminal magic-sword tales. Tolkien makes gentle fun of the whole idea in his Farmer Giles of Ham, where the sword Caudimordax, or Tailbiter, is the terror of the local dragons.
I am noticing that my different Heroic Tales classes kind of support each other. Explorer Fiction is a lot like Utopian fiction, but the explorer who finds a Utopia observes and records social customs as a way of reflecting on the author's own time. The explorer in Explorer Fiction just records wonders -- monsters and strange people. The Woman's Journey, which goes beyond fame and fortune to quest for wholeness, seems to lead naturally into the Spiritual Quest, which goes beyond personal wholeness to fusion with the Sacred. And Magic Sword Tales, which usually involve the irony that using the sword on others leads to you getting killed yourself eventually, bear a complicated relationship to the Dystopias.
The whole thing is becoming so interesting I am thinking of making the eight classes I am creating into a book. These are genre studies, really, so each chapter would sail across the centuries picking out examples wherever they may be found. The Utopias class starts with the Garden of Eden and ends with a 20th century Shangri-La, so that one really covers some ground. Woman's Journey stories track back into the timeless mists of folklore. Explorer Fiction can start with the 12th century voyages of Marco Polo, and continue into the 21st century space program. Spiritual Quest stories have been with us since the Descent of Inanna 4000 years ago.
Time melts away, when you look at story telling this way. Come melt away some time with us, Thursday Feb. 21 7-8 PM at Small Town Coffee, Kapa'a Fairgrounds. The first class is free!
Dr. Matt
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Preparing the Heroic Tales Class
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I am having way too much fun creating my Heroic Tales
classes for delivery at Small Town Coffee Thursdays 7-8 PM (Kapa’a Fairgrounds).
The first meeting is February 21st. I get to talk about all my
favorite books!
I just finished prepping the Utopias class, our 3rd
meeting. We will take an hour looking at Utopias from the 12th to
the 20th century, starting with the astonishing legend of Prester
John.
The Magic Sword class will start with tales of Tyrfing, the
Viking sword that always killed someone once it had been unsheathed.
And the Woman’s Journey – ! Well, I don’t want to give it
all away. There will be a hatful of great ideas at every class, for students to develop into a story or an essay. I will co-edit student writing with the student, to develop it to its highest potential.
We will sail past so many great books in an hour! Blue House
bookstore will order any book that you hear mentioned in the class, at a 20%
discount to the student. Each class will also have a keynote work that is
available for sale at the class with the same discount. We will spend a week
each on
1. Structure
of the Heroic Journey
2. Magic
Sword stories
3. Utopias
4. Explorer
Tales
5. the
Woman’s Journey
6. Dystopias
7. Visits
to the Future
8. Hawaiian
Tales
Hope I'll see you there!
Dr. Matt
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Heroic Tales Class Coming Up!
Thursday February 21st, 7-8 PM at Small Town
Coffee, I will kick off my Heroic Tales class. This will be a hum-dinger of a
roller-coaster ride through some wild genres of story-telling. We will use the
seminal works of a genre as a spring-board, and look at how their structure was
imitated by a host of later works, creating the genre as we have it now. Students
will each write an essay or a story related to one of the genres we discuss. I
will co-edit it with them to bring it to a finished form.
After this basic training in literary reading, any time we
see a work in that genre we will recognize it as a genre work, and know more or
less what to expect. Then we become active
readers, observing and enjoying how this particular work follows the genre
pattern, and how it violates or alters the pattern in surprising ways.
Come join us at this feast for the heart, mind and soul!
You’ll walk away with a story or essay in hand, and a head full of knowledge
about the amazing forms taken by the Heroic Journey in literature and in life.
There will be a sign-up sheet in the Blue House bookstore at Small Town Coffee
in the Kapa’a Fairgrounds. Students will pay $80 (cash or check) at the end of
the first meeting if they want to go on with the whole set of 8 meetings.
Contact me if you want to reserve a seat by prepaying (mahopmi@gmail, or come by Small Town Coffee
Saturday 10-2 when I work in the bookstore).
Monday, February 11, 2013
The Archetypal Fiction Class Ends
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Well, my Archetypal Fiction class at Small Town Coffee has
come to an end, after 21 fun Thursdays! At the end of its term, it gave birth
to a small Writer’s Workshop, in which I and some of the Archetypal Fiction
students will just get together over a weekly potluck to read our work and
comment helpfully on what we hear. We are all teachers and all students: price
of admission is something good to eat.
We had a great time the first evening of the Workshop,
reading each other long free-verse poems we have written and looking at how
they link to music. I played a recording of myself reading a narrative poem
called The Pirate Band Laments Its Fallen
King, in sync with the music of the pirate band itself – or rather
themselves, since there are really two pirate bands, one with electric guitars
and the other with a piano and other classical instruments like flutes and
trumpets. They get into a musical competition to see who can lament their
fallen king the best, and we hear their sad conversation about the Great Man
when he still walked the decks and ruled their lives.
I had just seen Pirates
of the Caribbean for the first time when I created the words and music,
and this was a weird spin-off from that
unique movie experience. It all seemed so real to me at the time, I developed a
short story from the lyrics. Who knows where these things come from?
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