Act 1: The Mother of Tongues
In Act 1 you travel through the childhood of language and connect with the elemental power of sound. You tap the potency of rhymes, wishes, spells, dreams and write your own creation myth. Once you have gained creative momentum, the myths of India, Persia and Babylonia provide fertile places for your writing to evolve.
Cats
Exercise 1: Cat Names
Exercise 2 & 3: The Likeable and The Disagreeable Cat.
Meeting the White Elephant
Greetings to you little White Elephant.
You come walking across my desk...
Poetic Allies: Mneme and the Old Cheesy-Smelling Woman
Mneme lives with her two sisters on the other side of the river in a small wooden hut...
Poetic Tour: Visiting Goran Stefanovski
I wish I was in Skopje in winter. I would...
First Callings: Days of a Princess
I wish it was my job to be a princess...
the gardener grew some greens
The gardener grew some greens.
Some of those greens were beans.
We ate those beans with butter like queens.
The gardener grew some greens.
Rain Song
Rain Song
varoom, varoom, mroosh, mroosh
icka patta knicka pinka
shoot, kala doop doop
kala doop doop
oof.
alay!
Landscape of Vowels
Exploration:
My landscape is the forest of Dharamkhot...