John O Sonnet

Thirteenth teh Ching

2012-01-29T11:01:00.000-08:00

"Settle the lawsuit happily like a gift
Treasure our liabilities as assets
Why settle the land tax accommodation as an overseers gift?
Because we are blessed if humble
So a parking lot is a great gift.
So to is loosing it!
That's why we should settle the suit from locals as Dana
Why should we bother with our suffering sangha projects?
Because shared ownership of property is the way to manifest a roof in heaven.
Since we have no rights then what responsibilities can plague us?
Hence if we can incorporate tour holidays we can pay the way
As long as we have love for this world, then darmha can grow around us like canopy

12th tea ching

2012-01-27T23:38:00.000-08:00

The Ashkobya hubris has blinded us to annual retreats
The pancha Ozzie abroad songs have deafened us to listening
The bitter sour etc tastes have cloyed our practise as lifestyle
Racing and hunting madden the mind.
Rushing round to galleries has crazed our residency
The rarity of teachings has led us into temptation
Therefore brothers and sisters focus on food not style
Our best friend prefers the inner nurture to superficialities

Dow 11

2012-01-27T04:26:00.000-08:00

All disparate temples are connected to meditation hall
Available accommodation gives room for visiting Lamas
We manifest building projects with funding
But atmosphere of landscaping and gardens make them work.
We make stuphas for our ceremonies
But the practise of Personae Semaratantra Pancha etc cause the transformation
Thus whilst schools clinics dorms are advantageos
It's the teaching's impact that is the pragmatic reason to be

Ten Tea Ching

2012-01-27T04:10:00.000-08:00

Buddha born Sakya his spiritual path was pantheism
Can I to balance my blood and energy?
Like he who became Sadu can I eat like a natural babe?
Turning anorexic, he floated his bowl down the river,
Have I let go of willful controls?
This Prince concluded enlightenment was possible,
Am I able to sit under a tree?
In his awakening he watched all his past lives then ate drank from a maidens kindness,
Can I to see life from her point of view?
Enlightened he could feel compassion summarily through all time,
Can I let go as he did and settle calmly?
Teach folk the four noble truths!
Feed them with loving kindness!
Fly united, in our pain,
Our monkey mind may try clever rope tricks
But end up hanging ourselves!
Strive through kindness not butchery!
This the access code to salvation

Nine 9 #

2012-01-24T23:26:00.000-08:00

Trying to keep the teachings alive?
Sri karmayinikan just listen!
Keep on preaching the word,
And it's meaning will drift away.
Gather worldly things in your rental
And you'll run out space to listen.
Prove to yourself your loyalty and nobility
Thus full with cities of calamaties, other's pain in your heart.
So, practise music intuitively;
Listen to your heart clairvoyant, hook free!

Eighth tea Ching

2012-01-23T21:13:00.000-08:00

The realization of the highest Mahamudra comes through daily practice
Watering all Yanas will harvest heart sutra.
Past days now reap loathsome war
Teachers reflections on "celebration of murder" orientates Moska locale .
Remember life is fleeting, meditation subdues deadly disease.
Remember when ya wanna be right, so to does the PLO, Zion, alquida and the lodge!
Remember of others that death is the end for both Mike Jackson and Ollie Twist
Remember nothing is absolutely right, so speak openly.
Remember to calmly keep order.
Remember to stay out of debt and do business cleanly.
Remember that even the Mahajapat Empire collapsed so choose the time to move
These rules are made for dullards so relax in your practice and breathe.

Seventhly Heaven

2012-01-22T19:33:00.000-08:00

His monastery was the world in which to practise
The secret of his charisma? His keeping.
Appreciated women's beauty as mother of Buddha.
Lama achieved moska with Kondro?
Wanted to watch her essential loving kindness from behind
Yet had to lead her through problems, just felt, relaxed to feelings as they came.
Our hearts sought love, then deeper into the heart via feeling
Arriving at pristine awareness and pure insight
Is it not because he was selfless?
Was it not his faith that focused on the selfless dream,
That dharma became so eternally beautiful?

Doa six thing

2012-01-22T05:19:00.000-08:00

The spirit of his kind words lives on
Once called "the womb of wisdom "
The book itself will have a forward writ by "the Dark lady"
And will betransliterated into all languages of this world
Hanging on like a spidersweb at dawns rising
But folks, when we reflect upon it , it brings endless happiness!

Fifthly sings

2012-01-21T14:31:00.000-08:00

Heaven honestly provides everything; unsentimentally
On earth you want, need but be prepared to burn
The sage is not sentimental ;
Self appreciation and appreciation of others is all
Men may guilt and women shy for
Desires like a bellows:
Without pretention it can be inexhaustible;
We men must work and she will come out of it.
No hallucination can characterize it;
Stronger ? Liberation? Look for these within ourselves.

Tea for ching

2012-01-20T05:20:00.000-08:00

Loved the egg cup gallery display
With the spoon rack in candelabra
Mystery of ancient times the boomerang axe
Blunting the new blades
Figurines in porcelain astride nations
Harmony of light and colour
Asian rice bag and yogi mats woven in candle lit unity
Contemporary lithographs uniformly sized unframed
At once requiring hands up and catelogues
I've no idea where this was, or by whom

Here's the thing

2012-01-19T16:20:00.000-08:00

It's time to pay up and ease exaltations thus drain the energy of rivals and rebels
By giving up the prized we will cease subjects trying to steal.
By modest dress we'll cause the hearts of our observers to stay peaceful.
The Bonaparte Dana box will overflow.
Therefore the sage's way of governing by

Stop dumping on one another

Eat well of the riches given

See distinction twixt taught and students

Stabilise your chi

Thats how he kept the students hungry for knowledge and desire objects and prevented elder shenaniganns
Encouraging no cliques nor resting on no laurels, we can appreciate our lives.

陶两

2012-01-18T15:12:00.000-08:00

If you have a little goodness mixed in your desire you'll be hog tied
She notes desire felt as fair to fair unless there's guilt int
In affairs candor upfront or hidden shame bears fruit
This must be cleaned for pleasant balance to flow
Being rejected is part of the play.
Angel and demon measures manifest
Frank words and honest deeds
Understanding follows honesty and vica versa
Free of games the wise will play without fuss.
Don't love her eternally and don't kid yourself
We can deny naught to the chorus line.
Being honest about our passion as it is
True love is like home, romantic without sex.
Do what you do passionately appreciate all things.
Enjoy the dreamworld it can never be stolen.

In the manner of Tao te Ching

2012-01-18T04:42:00.000-08:00

My life may be reflected here but not its happiness
Friends can be retweeted but not the noble sangah
We can attain all the bogas anonymously
We shall no longer take advantage of women's loving kindness
As men we must be candid about our romantic dream
As he showed us how he gave heaps to her he fell for
Jewelry, clothes and advice helping them to find their freedom
To be themselves, for which they loved him
Gloriously, satorily
We blokes can can misjudge them, but they don't us

Dakini in Jeans

2012-01-17T01:45:00.000-08:00

The innocent love that we felt as kids
Remains within and can be found again
So into a nightmare to transform it
Would Best Friend strode and awakened the flame

Of the suffering ones' Buddha nature,
Their better nature, their innocent dream.
He changed their pain with his insight flower
Uncowered he knew nothing was as it seemed

Male power is a way of seeing this world
So those who contemplate their perception
Can drop macho view, the nightmare unfurled
Then also let go notions of perfection

So space is made for our happy dance mix
Once life is our dream we'll change the matrix

Gentlemen Perpend

2012-01-16T22:12:00.000-08:00

Have pride as a man, we need not pretend
There's no desire. Feel like looking? Look!
We are powerful in relationship
When our love becomes unconditional

He likes her energy not her body
Fathers who acknowledge daughters as girl
Can loose the incest or gender guilts
The power of your appreciation

Is given back to you and your passion
Becomes your life, thus the dakini land
Manifest from this practise of pristine
Energy and of appreciation

She settles for security mostly
To feel love however must first needs he

Shhhmik!

2012-01-15T04:52:00.000-08:00

Once in our lifetime we can really love
Being honest with inserities
When you find true love everythings easy
Not so dodgy with yourself and feelings

When desire is felt for a women
We may put longing out psychically
Love will drive your passions your desire
You find the way to life's fulfillment

Remember hunter she's not your prey
The one to share the days catch with instead
Don't try to find away to make her stay
You won't need it just give her her head

Not something some prize to be obtained
She's your best friend forgiving and unblamed

romeo winced at juliette

2012-01-12T17:22:00.000-08:00

Romance is everything in expression
Of sensitivity giving her space,
Drop your jealousy let admiration
Arise . He ruins it by comparing

His love with hers thus starts feeling guilty
And finding his passion wilt. So note how
Beautiful yous are then wealth and health
Will blossom, no worries. He perceives her

Beyond her sexuality at once
For play and at other for love . We can
Respond with one of many neurosis
At the entry point of relationship

However if we can be honest first
And tell her how we really feel , bodes well

the Day we Recovered

2012-01-12T16:08:00.000-08:00

Clearing garden and digging trenches
With the prodigal son led to respect
Felt from family and welcomed home
Also giving him adequate challenge

For participation and encouragement
Acceptance and love even forgiveness
We went then to the amphitheater
Remembering that we don't live our

Passion very often for us as men
It is important to keep to ourselves
Thus tend to fall in love with her passion
If we resist this in our hearts then we

Will end up feeling inferior to her
Desire for passion is source of all life

Tranquilaide

2012-01-11T03:44:00.000-08:00

Choreograph "to be or not to be"
Replacing words with mim gesture
The body doesn't lie so readily
I know how painful words can be for me

There's a formality in dance, missing
In daily life I note my reflections
When she spoke by phone to say
She missed me I responded in kind

With a cry for help that may have have been
Unnecessarily harsh in saying my
Pride prevented me from feeling
The loss of dear friends too deeply

Without going into too much detail
To end up friendless is to fail

The path of renunciation

2012-01-10T14:24:00.000-08:00

When one dumps one person from your love list
Of ones you that feel responsible for
Your happiness will be one step closer
When you drop one hundred folk from said list

Then you fly one hundred squares towards bliss
Lord Pandji Sakti once told his clansmen
Embroiled in protracted stubborn conflict
"Cut your bonds to bits then! I'm going home ..."

First you must love yourself as number one
Fear not to speak the truth but with respect
To and right manners for the listener
When close friends go their own way the effect

Is missing lost love opportunities
Pride stands and loneliness grows new cities

The Land of Permanent Bliss

2012-01-09T13:06:00.000-08:00

Worthy ? Unworthy ? Drop it be yourself
Compassion humility faith rigpa
Wisdom and then absolute compassion
I have been protected as an aspirant

In the lineage of my root Lama
Australia is a root chakra land
We need no banner to awaken us
Australians plus their white invaders

Know permanence of compassion and faith
Nothing in this known world is permanent
Everything in this world is permanent
Close heart bond with Master, seeing eyes

Of faith with eyes of humility eyes
Of pristine awareness everything is
Perceived as permanently wonderful
Thoughts are fleeting that's the nature of thought

If from faith you wish for success it's yours
If from pain you wish it, it won't happen

Calibans Democracy

2012-01-08T14:52:00.000-08:00

Faith, humility and love in our world
Heart connection with ones spiritual friend
Transcends elemental constraints, the bird
That can fly one free in death to Wish Bend

Brings the power of acceptance alive.
No longer stressed by appearance jive
Not threatened by taller or stronger, this sword
Best to cut one's suffering in this world

When one thinks others are lower, higher
Or even equal, ones ego miers.
Arthur fought Lancelot for prideful sake
His sword breaks he casts it into the lake

At Merlins cave he weeps remorsefully
Excalabar glides up for unity

Goodluck Kiss Blarney Arney

2012-01-08T14:10:00.000-08:00

Wealth coming as please you manifested
By others as all you experience
Becomes more fulfilling, a finer
Quality of appreciation grows

Within your heart (vacated by old ego
Identity) all conditions ; fear
Etcetera gently disappear
We cut grasping day one third they go

First up decide you don't want suffering
Then you choose happiness completely
Attachments are suffering integrate
All together arts meditation health

See how male view caused filtration of your
Feeling, then you'll let go of emo sore

Play happily

2012-01-07T15:28:00.000-08:00

Feel full of bliss then all feeling spectra

Disappears so that feeling sense can grow

To pure insight to explore depths greater

Than we thought, in feeling vulnerable

Becoming honest about how we feel .

Then we go to Buddha land together

Kamasutra for instance balancing

Deep care compassion understanding love

And passions from the point of orgasm

That tingly lovely energy wherein

The whole world appears to be transforming

As arhart we can choose life prolonging

Eyes wide open meditation power

Of manifestation in life's flower

Ciwi Hati Cantini

2012-01-06T13:33:00.000-08:00

Everything looks three dimensional now
Four tributaries of grasping flowed down
The far left with fiscal anxiety
Home and love so we so we beaver bough dams

To protect ourselves relating like folks
Over disciplining or ignoring kids
Our liberation cuts us loose from bonds
Of someone's child or spouse. Happy new youth,

We can party alone when parents work
Thus we shirk responsibility
Of home and to others we have no claims
Not even to our body. Charisma!

No longer flows fear of loss any more
Dried by darmha sunshine for life's savour

Yet another love one ...

2012-01-05T15:58:00.000-08:00

Heart surgery contemplation cutting

The suffering away from the inside

Death and the painful loss of a lover

Are still intrinsic to a life of pride

Letting go of the fish that that we have hooked

Yet holding dear the hook is a bad plan

Loose the hook and with the lover remain

Connected in the heart, lust and passion

Desire to evaporate and bonds

Develop together eternally

If proud her beauty lost will crush her love

With heartfelt acting he'll remain greif free

Compassion blunts the hook relaxation

Stays, playing or in calm conversation

Bush Id ...Oh?

2012-01-05T15:55:00.000-08:00

I strive to approach the truth step by step
Becoming thereby I'm completely free
Of painful bushido conditioning
Preoccupied as I was apparently

With job search and ways of money making
Coming in at second place to starting
My own business venture getting
Underway with CERES cultural hub

Spinning onto the eartheatre mud brick
Centre of excellence in agit prop
I became sickened by life's constant changes
Then saw that this was the most exciting

Aspect of life ,good for those suffering
Like me , happy days ahead will joy bring

Blooms Tax Mule

2012-01-04T15:21:00.000-08:00

Start with Specifics and Terms then go to
Ways and means of dealing with terms, sequence
Trends, classification and categories
Methodology . Abstracts. Principal...

..Generalizations . theories and structures
Comprehension Translation Analysis
Analysis of relationships and
Of organizational principals. Then

Syntheses. Then production of unique
Communication . Plan, proposed set
Of operations. Abstract relations.
Evaluation. Judgement in terms of

Internal evidence and finally
Judgements through external crieria!

Lear hearing

2012-01-04T03:32:00.000-08:00

Playing kick to kick with a downe syndrome girl

At the back of Hope and Have-ya-say...

Write job apps on to administrators

Already overflowing ignore tray?

Or cost it properly Artists markets

Where headed depends on both past knowing

Plus currency of clarity therefor

Look to earning during rehearsal bling

Develop a core group of five actors

Askobya linked to text development

Based on a work for dole income model

With a production wing involving Kent

Loved ones who need good work to recover

From the disabling effects of trauma

Jarden de arte

2012-01-04T02:51:00.000-08:00

What is hidden in my self sabotage?
What's to be done requires energy
Can it be cleaned by just one early night?
Correct effort focus on mindful chi

My life has become some wind blown book
I grope towards love by joining the dots
Describe the vision, remember to look
Business strategies are just a way home

Rest in the great natural spaciousness
Long way by foot faster if go by plane
Beware of going to and fro never
Resting at home therefor must ask again

What does arts have to do with garden green
Can maps coordinates show where we've been?

Goethe got me going

2012-01-03T00:11:00.000-08:00

When Faust was performed by year elevens

I sharpened their understanding of light

For guiding the actor, audience mood

To harmonize with textual intention

Attending to the details in the space

Has always been a hallmark of my work

Wether it was job club or child care rooms

In my drama room for school open days

Centering around current areas

Of interest to students and parents

Planning to work within school schedules

Must be careful with clear signs of intent

Keeping one eye on computer software

And the other the drama of care

Just say ...

2012-01-02T02:04:00.000-08:00

Sets designed and built on human movement
Visualized together as a whole group
For example the lost & found sibling
Involved folk on interstate air travel

The airplane seating was two rows of chairs
Situated to the left of the stage
The stage served and various kitchens
The audience was seated front of stage

Tables turned upside down slide on carpet
Serve as taxis to or fro the airport
Such simple prop designs from diddley squat
Our limited resources magically

Freed right hand side providing tables free
For boarding gates and adoption agencies

ego dreaming

2012-01-02T01:59:00.000-08:00

Australian Shakespeare Co o' George Street Fitz
Never did that, sorry folks like so much less
Playback @ Monash neither nor Cloudburst
Melbourne Maskworks for Candide got lost

My experience at the museum
My public program development work
Plus my comm skills both written and oral
With focus on various mediums like

Props, choreography and set design
Integrating the spatial dynamics
With learning objectives the school
Curriculum. Floor planning and flow charts

The ego of dreaming better outcomes
Than logic by artistic means was fun

Simple

2012-01-01T22:08:00.000-08:00

Accompanying letter identifies
Need for organizational training
And development of my social skills
In order to effect a successful

Job placement outcome for short and long term
Most effective work projects demonstrate
Participatory strategies with
A radical transparent aesthetic

Mostly within the orbit of drama
Or Theatre and with graphic Media
I choose to use recycled resources
In a rough hewn happy free hand manner

Each distinct effort is driven more by
An urge to effect change than to show off

glich go g gl ggO

2011-12-31T22:27:00.000-08:00

Next day my resistance reemerges
However getting the chip board panels
Is definite progress. Also writing
And posting the letter to Melbourne

Theatre Company is keeping my list
Of things to do down to plausible size
It has at least planted the seed in their
Archives about my directing Hamlet

Or Tempest or Timon in parenthesis
The also ran turned out in retrospect
To be the one that flew who would have guessed?
The after thought to write to DAAG in fact

Was the forum for King John and Ten Bulls
The lesson then is with apps be mindful

Jon Am Strong!!?

2011-12-31T22:13:00.000-08:00

After a weekend of wine women song
Back to making money for survival
And for happiness of all ( if I'm strong )
Subsequent to my teacher resignation

I sought work beyond the school system then
Starting with the Oxford Children's Theatre
After working on very shaky skies
I trained at Werribee TAFE scaffolding

Then my small business accreditation
Focused on community theatre
In combination with natural healing
I got my own police clearance papers

Then wrote to scaffolding team leaders
Rainy Hill ERA, et cet era . . .

Framing my self perception

2011-12-31T14:58:00.001-08:00

In order to get my scaffold work
I wrote myself a telephone script
The remnants of which goes something like this
... I've been working as a drama teacher

And resigned in December, I'm ringing
You now to seek inclusion on your lists
As a casual scaffold labourer
Available at short notice for work

In factories, building sites or concert rigs
That require short term laboring jobs
Since I have obtained a scaffold license
I am both hard working and flexible

Until now I've been living off money
Obtained from my seperation package

Ricoche Cliche

2011-12-30T03:25:00.000-08:00

Assisting with childcare was first taxi
Off the rank back then followed by Merri
Creek logistics based from CERES Ayo
Then work on Milarepa libretto

Ring your sister , go to go to go gook
Massage at the health food shop for income
Small business begining steps need not spook
Fear arose from old insecurities

Since life chances are so fleeting must then
Be decisive but wait there's more mime time
Candle making and pitri yadnya
Buttho training also childerens theatre

Contact friends to keep it real by feed back
And get enrolled in accredited TAFE

Ole perfect day pressure

2011-12-29T04:48:00.000-08:00

Daily aspirations of a poet
Dream notes prostrations shower then offerings
Zafu exercises then eat and clean
Water garden tinker in shed then talk

Take notes and work on puppets then cook lunch
Back to work, have long black, pay bills and shop
Play some sport with the kids make some dinner
Sing songs play music dance chi kung mime some

Time enough for writing poetry now
Balance your books and pray for peace in the world
Contemplation in the wee hours of how
Sing songs of praise and read babe the masters

Time then to sleep and dream of happier daze
To release the painful muscles in cose

Mule marches on

2011-12-28T17:42:00.000-08:00

Generating income list way back when
Planned to move gate, fir tree and path straighten
Stirrup tree hut and concrete foundations
Finnish the puppet screen and the kids bunks

Complete Milarepa songs adaption
Talk to the Merri Shakespeare collective
Generate an Oxford Theatre Trust clone
Circumbulate the Casino enclave

Scaffolding union for panel designs
DeBono model for recycling goods
Minature paintings for niche market days
Thus I resolved to force my notes forward

Monitoring the progress to these goals
Crowned by basic health and fitness regime

2011-12-27T20:05:00.000-08:00

Once when his wallet was apparently
Unaccountably missing he stayed home
He was stuck at home no shopping could he
Do all day. Under sofa it was found

Then we had visitors the kids went out
We trained in the park then went to Barbie
Planning dusk shadow puppet play that night
Where to get leather and gels what story

To tell? was on his mind also the tree house
And the garden beds need preparing
The kids back home and fortified their bunks
Time to enough to make another coffee

My list of notes thus opes sweet memories
That resonate in present time sundries

To do of yore

2011-12-27T02:53:00.000-08:00

There was somewhat of a pause in these notes
He's recovered from a case of dropsies
he needs to see the central path between
Freedom and irresponsibity

Being clumsy and thus feeling guilty
Absentmindedness requiring posted
Notes everywhere to prick his memory
Washing up get the paperwork researched

For a second hand dealers licence
Train up as a certified scaffolder
Do your homework for TAFE
Practise man practise and keep on training

Ring the folks and draw up a birtday list
If you don't take this chance it's sadly missed

Another train of pack mules descend with a view

2011-12-26T16:03:00.001-08:00

This journal train began at an end point
Days of assistant director
Or production manager are over
So to as stage manager at Oxford

Theatre in Box Hill . I've lost my job
Returning home with feelings arising
Again of mixed up sadness and relief
Any way I note " I'm free ! " Free to make

My own way , to work on my own projects
To heal my own weaknesses to embrace
My own sufferings. Henceforth there's no more
"Jolly goods" about achieving a niche

The time has come once more, to all confess. . .
Now then I implore " Impose Happiness! "

Wide Weeding Womb

2011-12-23T16:47:00.000-08:00

Middle school literature for preps to year sixes
A discreet class for various reading abilities
Not so constrained by timetable because each kid
Gets to choose a book to read over three weeks

Small group activities relate to text,
Cake baking clay modeling play making
The fast readers can tear through as much and
As fast as they choose from the extras tub

A trust fund provides four hundred titles
The Beacon Programs own "wide reading room"
They use the five finger test to assess
Suitability of book to reader

Creative timetabling can use
Creative funding to give kids a go

Ayu Manis

2011-12-23T15:47:00.000-08:00

When you smile the sun shines bright in your eyes
Recognition of others kindness
When others suffer you evidently
Do to, the gloom descends across your brow.

In the bright sunshine your fair deeds blossom
The blue sky above sits smooth as still pond
Moving like a mystery train through trees
Trimming carefully, weeding feeding plants

When the sunsets your watering begins
As babes are resting on their mothers breasts
Your garden drinks your mercy with fresh thanks
Then after that you bring us all a cuppa tea

The mercies of heaven unsifted fall
Down to earth as blessings through your deeds all

Madrid II

2011-12-18T22:30:00.000-08:00

In practise then it goes something like this
Each kid gets stickers pack of own logo
These correspond to papers hung on wall
Indicating lights,make up, mime, puppets

Sound or costume thus the week their roles' shown
This process will build for a few hours
By the end of the week they can share
Their Theatre Festa they've experienced

First hand. Afterwards they fill out some
Questionnaires write reflections and poems
Not here is "comic"used as an insult
Marginalizing the young producers

Not true, that serious comments come
Without graphics or from only one mum

Returning to the Carlos talk for a mule or two

2011-12-18T16:54:00.000-08:00

Space is crucial to theatre because it
Needs eye to eye contact this the lost gist
In 90 s drama in education text
Teaching scholastic logic crushed the roots. . .

Theatre gave us to grow from like passion fruit.
Education systems however trims
Knowledge into compartments, dried, lifeless .
Theatre lives on uncompartmentalized

Our work sought contact within creation.
Is there only western or eastern worlds?
This reflected world either black or white?
When the Berlin wall fell we imagined

An end to divisions. At last the space
For human potential to be realised. .

Madrids' Educating Action

2011-12-16T19:11:00.000-08:00

A primary program that develops
Musique plastique for group/ personal
Growth that builds student imagination
And critical facilities. Dramatic play,

Dramatization, theatre visits
And extra school activities
Both in the classroom and outside of it
These discreet contexts have distinct outcomes

School withTheatre in real relationship
But kids who see theatre once only
Don't get how it had been constructed
Thats why this crew go into a school for

One week to show means and encourage them
In critical spectatorship debate

International Drama in Education Association

2011-12-16T14:23:00.000-08:00

IDEA keynote speaker quoth to think!
On the worth of drama as an art form
Drama teachers were going from strength to strength
Queensland Uni drama / education

Swap shop ideas ( genorous drama folk! )
Advocacy within community
Teaches who and what you are, your place in
Society . Drama however is

Still seen as personal growth only!
Theatre production as problematic
So make theatre link curriculum
Not just a vacuous recreation

That's how we build democratic people
With active ethical ways of being!

Trimandala:- north middle south

2011-12-15T17:47:00.000-08:00

TRI AMA ;- upper body middle legs

When Taksu appears as a brilliant state
It arises from actors desire
Or motivation based on lots and lots
Of devoted skill training to aspire

Every temple festival ends with a
Uniquely new music and dance performance
SDSI performing arts college
Denpassar notes herein that the village

Is the central hub of cultural production
Balinese movements are based on given
Sets, for instance picking up a flower
Daily actions become stylised kin

Javanese techs ;- putting on a bracelet
Rada Wirama Rasa :- cha gong suit!

gist

2011-12-14T13:37:00.001-08:00

Physical gesture or a look used to cue
The moment of energizing body
Which Balinese call the Manu Bayu
The spiritual aspect completes the "taksu"

Before becoming an actor, dancer
Or dalang a person must undergo
A purification ceremony
Then train in the ensemble of movements

That dance is comprised of. Being eye, glance
Fingers, hands and the feet. These are combined
Into a discreet gestural signal
This makes up a characteristic mask

So taking on known story lines dalangs
Will use the players to send clear signals

Educational Revolution turns beyond bricks

2011-12-12T14:10:00.000-08:00

Rate of learning graph shows lower results
In English from level five to eight boys
Difference greater within than between schools
Attentiveness is the key variable

Good classes have this they are settled and
Enjoyed. Their teachers are responsive there
In is an air of socialability .
The curriculum has some usefulness

Teacher attitudes are welded by school
Culture . Thus success is determined by
Suspension rates of year eight and nine boys
Their behavior indicators are fixed

Therefor the adjustment space lies in the
Curriculum goals for the target group

2011-12-12T02:25:00.000-08:00

Educational reformist leadership
Culture got trundled by admin chattels
And pedagogy, causing exhaustion
But intellectual resources still

Push through with chalkies results on the board
We can't do it tomorrow but we must start
Moving towards the goal. Common access
Via the right learning environment

For a specific individual
Community centre model for school
The collective voice of grassroots teachers
Who are aspiring to facilitate

Common Access is the aspect to form
So sound new workable practice can be born

Patrice P'sTheatre on the Crossroads Culture

2011-12-10T15:28:00.001-08:00

Discrimination of self and other?
A French fortnight intensive of theatre course
Vocal breathing, stage elements body
Costume space props text theory ritual

Adapt to using space by centering
From the ground, the gaze and the breath marry
Thus the power of expression arrives
We demand lots of the body to get

That focused. Then release vox on the text
Children have lost the art of play you know?
They don't know how to let their voices go
Teenagers have bodies that are going through

Very difficult changes. Therefor we
Disturb audience sensibilty

Carlos LOL lahhh!

2011-12-10T02:23:00.001-08:00

Teachers can be trained to use ritual
To help students understand each other
And ourselves , the last decades formal
Schools been transforming machines not mothers

Back in the nineteen hundreds teaching framed
A humanities center . Now here's some
Educationalists who want to change
Back to that state of being. Maybe one

Day we'll wake to ask what are we doing ?
Power is fragile, so the status quo
Can change. Carlos Fragotious speaking.
From national theatre to run-around shows

Phil Thomsons Wontok two man plays arrives
Guru Puri tribe village life dramatized

IDEA conference was good but...

2011-12-08T18:33:00.001-08:00

Third world artists may manage to meet here
But not in their own context even in
India they don't exchange ideas tween them-
-Selves. Now since the satellite invasion .

They all have context for theatre work
That interacts with diverse cultural groups
We as directors should not approach
Actors with arrogant omniscience

We shall instead sensitively acquaint
Ourselves with what's their operational
Narratives and archetypes. To begin
Agusta always works with theatre folk

As he is, warts and all, his cultural
Quirks and with his personal history

Gusta Baraka a paraseeh activist spoke to me of

2011-12-08T03:34:00.001-08:00

River as metaphor for intra-
-Cultural exchange. Searching for other
We can marginalise them and drift.
To Indians rivers are the life source

They are deity beds. Saraswati
Flows under ground and meets in dynamic
Implosions with other rivers. Ganga
Is seen in any body of water

By the dying. They are of course also
Sites of political struggle and may
Be seen as being beheaded by dams.
Suffer piracy from tributaries

Cultures metamorphised as rivers can
Play questions of cultural harmony

Ramayan a moments silence

2011-12-07T15:37:00.001-08:00

SWORD
(in form of woman)

Unhand me sir to use a girl unwilling
Is wrong ; Sweet release , why thanks now you die

LAKSMANA

Not Hanuman and Jambawan ! No way!
Heads roll Argadas' golden fur soaks red
My arrows team like never seen before

RAMA
They are all answered twice by these you die
I shoot exactly where arrows came from
They wend to me! & tears blur my sight
Taken victory I must try to. . . Ughhh!

INDRAJIT

Tis done, the field cleared ofmy fathers foes
What once was lively he tis now all still
Back to my Lankan conservatory
Tiger cart and all roll into flame burst
Dear servants go take my news to father
Rama have I slain with his beastie hordes
Tell Ravana his wish has come true
I rest awhile within these walls
Thank you and farewell - I breathe in then out
Relax relax alert alert 'tis all

HANUMAN

Come demon prince let's see who has survived

WIBISASANA

My leige Jamabawan speak if thou still canst

JAMBAWAN (Stirs)

Hanuman ? Does he still quicken in this world?

WIBISASANA

You ask of apes but not of Rama why?
Is he to your heart more precious than our king?
No more ! Give up now your base loyalty . . .

Norman Price taught through living ensemble 111

2011-12-07T05:12:00.001-08:00

Non verbal games the first intervention
Actor revelation is second fess
Then actors completion and text reading
Constitute the rehearsal process

Next door a regional secret service,
Caused fascist P.T.A to grow teeth
Therefore theatre needs ethical boundaries
To navigate material resource

Used both in and out of the theatre
And what exactly is given back to
The culture that supports it ? Balance found,
However we must not undervalue

The intimacy that's achieved by working
Together on theatre and drama

Norman Ocker "Bad Mother"

2011-12-06T17:51:00.001-08:00

Body text space theory and ritual
We have to challenge the syllabus school
We can work theories through openly
We live in a huge open space country

What rituals do Australians use?
How can these be applied to focus text?
Football for instance or music and dance
Returning also to the syllabus

Deterministic trajectories in
cultural models of exchange are too
Prescriptive to find liberation
<=> Seed <=> Archetype <=> Culture <=>

We undermine pains dimension and depth
Take for example the Skaligreg story

Bad Mother Project

2011-12-06T09:30:00.001-08:00

Barba used the body as starting point
The text is not a cake with a file inside
Tim Wintons 'Waters Edge' and other texts
To describe the Australian Body

Open spaces, backyards and beaches
Were formed into corridors of action
Shamanic story of white cloth on beach
Taken out in waves where fisherman drowned

Cloth gathers up soul then returned to the beach
Where the shaman sings them into soul box
That can then be buried and farewells said
Bed sheet, long white cloth, a shroud for the dead

This is a means to locate true self
Not just theorist flavor of the month

PC Teams

2011-12-05T17:05:00.001-08:00

Person centered thinking helps folk work out
What they want and what supports are needed
Where to get supports from and how to put them
To the best use to gain folk their outcomes

Staff strive to get the mix right twixt the two
Gates of whats important for and whats
important to the person we who
Staff are planning with and finding balance

The ideal team will value each members
Unique contributions analyse
Issues from various perspectives
Through a process of continually

Listening adjusting and looking back
Hall marks of this mode are in daily prac

rr rr rr r Rama yarn

2011-12-05T16:34:00.001-08:00

RAVANA
With this golden arrow peak I'll split
Another to pin your corpse to the path
Whato more monkey kinglings? Same to yous!

LAKSMANA

Brother Rama I bow to you pleading
Let take to thef field and face him alone
My bow twitches with anticipation
The glory such victory brings me
Would fill my dull life so sweetly with fame

RAMA

I grant you this opportunity, go!
See though Hanuman beats you to the punch

RAVANA

Well done monkey you're a foe in whom I can rejoice!

RAMA

What now! Even he has fallen from mace
Laksmana hold ! I will too late he's gone
What a shower of arrows twixt those two
Never has such torrents before now clashed
Yes!Ravana hit but still he draws his bow
By Brahma he hit true my brother is down
Now he's trying to steal his prey away
He who has lifted the Himalayas
Cannot my brothers bones move an inch

LAKSMANA

At deaths door I remember I am Visnu

HANUMAN

That blow was strong but so is this one YAH!
Come frail human hero back to Rama

RAMA

Ravana falls but so has Laksmana
He stirs and lives thank Gods this happiness ...
So does my nemesis beware my store !
Let these arrows answer yours

HANUMAN

Climb on my shoulders they will bear thee true

RAMA

Oh my unflinching friend you are my best
With the sun on our backs flanked by the sea
I send these bolts aimed resolutely
Aimed at my target my sworn enemy
This chakra kept specially , splits his crown
Now he is mortally wounded , dethroned
His grand war chariot broken to bits
With this arrow I send him to deaths pit
Hear me speak great hero I see thee weak
Therefor return home and compose yourself
Live to feel my battle strength One more time

WIBISANA

Er I see this sight incredulous and sad
Ravana skulking off like a weakling
Rama shows him the mercy of a king
All the gods demigods earth bound creatures
From the four cornets and the six realm list
All beings that feel feel joy knowing this
Ravana our tyrant is beaten back

HANUMAN

Jaya ! Rama unfurls the victory banner truth

SITA

Mmmm where stands honour now, whilst I sit?

A little more from 1994

2011-12-04T17:44:00.001-08:00

Electric guitars scream to drum kit boom
Ground floor drama room bursting with costumes
Students shout lines heard across hall in art room
Project Self Discovery breaks their gloom

Denvers' Harvey Milkman made this happen
Martial arts students in meditation
These kids were once spinning outa control
Now developing their artistic roles

Instead of taking drugs and alcohol
They experience an environment
Of creativity. When they enroll
They reduce their stress and shy deviance

Replacing "just say no" approach with with more
Pleasant, wholesome and social ways to score

Peter Abbs told me so

2011-12-03T13:02:00.001-08:00

The question of taking a radical
Position in the schools curriculum
Drama teaches us about our freedom
And gives us the means to express it well

Drama can articulate life's meaning
Also to embody social virtue
It represents a logic, a way to
Think through issues by putting students in

Touch with the art world. It offers ways to
Experiment with technology
Develop critical thinking. To see
Traditions as a deep resource that's true

To us as an evolving whole, a group
Building a cultural democracy

Oh oui barya!

2011-12-03T01:34:00.001-08:00

I see you you see me then we see we
The bright child sees a playmate smiling fun
The scowling ape sees their dark enemy
In truth these are both minds own delusion

Either from attachment or from fear
So it is in busy brain excuses
Making mistakes in your face Oh my dear
Forgive my my error and bad choices

As when anger arises from no good
Reasoning but the target has no form
Of lasting nature, so let go, I would
Not want to be caught by emo mind born

When I see clearly who you really are
It's like watching the shining Christmas star

Occupy The Empty Spaces & Make Meaning

2011-12-02T13:15:00.001-08:00

Mass Culture as Peter Abbs said once
Is manufactured to produce profit
It's anti reflection and has no gaps
Modern folk amusing themselves to death

Las Vegas city of lights our symbol
Politics as jest, it's all show biz
Dramatic dialogue is cosmetic
The pursuit of happiness has now become

A private matter on one hand whilst the
Other :- Public space has been colonized
Market managers take over niches
Managerial culture casts a web

Overall. Happiness is fun and style
Thus Arts Ed must dance the democrats mile

SCOT to ZenZo

2011-12-01T14:39:00.001-08:00

Togas' Tadishi Suzuki most renowned
Workshopped with the Playbox full on clowns
Of 30 western actors who applied
John Nobbs was one of the dozen Tad tried

Sensei Suzuki is famous for shows
He mounts of classic western works and knows
ThaToga locals also benefit
From his unique actor training methods

When John came home to Brisbane , he began
Actors training bi weekly for students
Four years later they played Macbeth in town
And Brisbane group Oedipus put on

For us on the botanic Gardens stage
Blasts from speaker banks and kimono rage

All my helicopter notes from WEST Yorkshire Playhouse

2011-12-01T04:24:00.001-08:00

'Theatre is not a building it is a human a activity shared by all'
Nei Cameron "Fire On The Water"

Actors control groups of audience through role
Audience through talk however by virtue of the fact

That they don't want to stick out they agree that
Things are working so they go along with the flow

'Playing The Promenade" a collaborative project
Elements from myth and psychological archetypes

Responding to research in schools there is skill building
So that the kids can respect the work and not feel used

The craft encloses the participants for safety reasons
Moving different groups through multiple-focus

via intra focus or local focus to arrive at a single focus
Theatre is not a building it is a human a activity shared by all

mimpim petite

2011-12-01T04:21:00.001-08:00

Twinkle Twinkle little star
Shed you light from where you are
Bless the child with fire and zeal
Let their dream be fulfilled
Twinkle star burn ever bright
From despair shed your light

Ramayarna excerpt

2011-11-30T13:44:00.001-08:00

SITA

Slanderous how scandal scowling seeps back?
Excuse me I'm dying here all alone
What more does my hero need but means?
What insult more will you men heap on mum?
She who is there silently feeding them all
Succour rich and endless must sometime weary
Of scouralous ego quests for honour
The thorn in my side three quarters removed
Then allowed to sink back to tender pain
Surely the lights across this horizon
Shall flicker out one fully realized night
Or must this circus of shame enflame us
For an eternity of loneliness
Win loose right wrong .. Let's just say I'm confused
Trijata speak to me in my danger
My tears of rage have made me blind to hope

TRIJATA

You were ok yesterday with me here
So it is again today you and I
The promise tomorrow brings awaits us
Embrace me me feel my love , my protection
Rest easy on your mothers shoulder
Dream your way in to your husbands hubris

RAVANA

Never so close to defeat have I been
My incoragability endowment
Is the the one thing that saved me on this day
Therefor I will homage to the Gods pay
Remembering the company I kept
Whilst on those long days of sacrifice

SUGRIVA

Speak wisdom one and we shall act forthwith
Despite the grief in this dark time we feel

gloom time after rain

2011-11-30T04:09:00.001-08:00

Sitting waiting for my long Mack to come
Watching passers by kinda vaguely
Tired from the day depressed by hum drum
Without you street life is boring to me

When it comes, I drink without sugaring
The glass of water may not have been washed
Since someone's lipstick remains on the rim
My waiter's shattered ... I'll just drink abashed

Then the phone rings your names on screen!
Hi where are you? I ask of my dream queen
The cafe by the entrance funducco
Ok you say and soon its shall we go ?

But first off to docs with you! not yet
Let's get this milk in the fridge first You bet!

Ritual and Spectacle

2011-11-29T22:41:00.001-08:00

The spectacularly theatrical
Trance manipulation of the Rangda mask
Geertz notes is 'not merely a spectacle
To be watched but a ritual to be

Enacted '... the classical realm now past
And royal patronage is not so strong
But these ceremonial spectacles
Live on as do demonic yet divine

Tantric cults . In the Dutch colonial
Era they were enacted under the
Authority of appointed regents
Some of whom were Raja. Today they

Are held by government officials with
Advise from spiritual bodies .Agog!

From Khondra Lah and thanks :-)

2011-11-28T15:51:00.001-08:00

As with a child so with our heart find
Growing more confident time time time
Refuge ahh not means refugee fleeing
No one else can do confidence building

The Lamakaya? There it's all so sweet
Beautiful Natures realm, it's essence
The juice,the joy the way out of defeat
No longer requires worldly defense

Ahimsa helps others to be happy
Freeing ourselves from holding our small views
We consider Buddha object to be
Buddha there, we value it as our muse

Offerings and mantra good thoughts so forth
Diligent acts for three jewels in this birth

Lucindas Rights R ...

2011-11-28T15:47:00.001-08:00

Luci has rights to attend day program,
To a trust fund and financial plan
To attend service and personal planning meetings
To a visit from the community

Lucindas rights extend to avoidance
Of seclusion. Mechanical restraints
Or chemical. Being in ignorance
Of her rights by means of legal parlance...

Lucinda knows there for of her rights to
Participate in I.D. planning groups
She can choose medical supports. She knew
She has her privacy respected . Ooops!

She gives prior consent to her treatments
Her rights are guided by specialist bents

Lucinda Continues

2011-11-27T04:20:00.001-08:00

Her fin skills since receiving her pensionne
Needs assessment attached to her file be
With speech signs and conviviality
Kept safe for her accommodation

Investments made into her jurisprudence watched
By guardians and informed by visit chicks
Check she ain't locked by chems or mechanix
She can let her hair down and be kept flossed

Her bank details and skill development
Programs are faxed to house supervisor
Prior to arrival are reviewed also
By trust fund with first month paid up front

Through that process we make a two year plan
Her rights must be known to her when she signs

Of Lucinda Joyce

2011-11-27T04:15:00.001-08:00

@ work we seek ways to help her
Participate in the daily rhythms of the
Household and to empower her
With confidence in her abilities

By being an active player
In running her home life free
But also taking responsibility
For her chronicly enraged behaviors

Thus gaining more control over
Her life. When citizens felt disgust
With the treatment of folk they fussed
Over law reform and post war era saw

International Declaration Of Human Rights
Like our own D. Act of '92 fights

haiku reblogged

2011-11-27T04:10:00.001-08:00

Words with no explicit seasonal context used in haiku have been labeled in many ways：

keywords, non-seasonal topics, all-season topics,
miscellaneous haiku: zakku 雑句; zappai　雑俳
haiku without a season word : muki, mu-ki,
無季, 無季の句, 無季俳句 ...
"free format haiku" as used by the Shiki Monthly Kukai
context-setting words, cultural keywords

... problematic terms (these should NOT be used):
all season kigo, all year kigo (!), quite a contradiction in terms, since KI 季 means season.
... "muki kigo" "no-season season word", "seasonless season word"
"muki-kigo" "non-season season word" (!) ...

... add your definition ... :o)

A word of caution:
Words introduced in ALL YEAR or MISCELLANEOUS sections of a saijiki are not kigo, but all-year haiku topics.

Here is a discussion about the use of "all year haiku topics", NOT "all year kigo", listed in "Haiku World" :
non-seasonal topics by Bill Higginson

Suit 'o Soma

2011-11-25T16:26:00.001-08:00

intro joget

enter Caknya forming a standing circle
"Sir Buk Sir Buk Sir Buk"

Komanda;- "Chis!"
Caknya sit hands forward softly "sir buk'

Komanda;-
Sir Yang Or Yang Ar Yang ErYang
Sir Yang Or Yang Ar Yang ErYang
Sir Yang Or Yang Ar Yang ErYang
Sir Yang Or Yang Ar Yang ErYang
Sir Yang Or Yang Ar Yang ErYang
Sir Yang Or Yang Ar Yang ErYang
Komanda;- TUT!
Silence

Komanda;-Cht!
CAKnya:-"Om Ahh Hum"
Prayer mudra going up out-round down return bud of lotus

Komanda;-Ais!
CAKnya:" Ais Ais" clap

Komanda;-"Ais" defining movement
CAKnya
" Tut Dat Tut Sir
Tut Dat Tut Sir
Tut Dat Tut Sir"

Komanda;- " Tuuut!"
Silence
CAKnya adjust seated position 123

Komanda;-Begins quietly building pitch volume momentum
Sir Ti Pung Ti
CAKnya hands out to the right
Sir Ti Pung Ti
Sir Ti Pung Ti
Sir Ti Pung Ti
Komando "Uuut"
Silence
Suito soloist continues
Sir Ti Pung Ti
Sir Ti Pung Ti
Caknya rejoins change hands to left side (pulse)
Sir Ti Pung
Komando;-"Cok"
Caknya:-" Cok Cok Cok"
Komando :-" Uuut"
Silence
Caknya; Whispering hands on knees
Sir Ti Pung Ti
Sir Ti Pung Ti
Sir Ti Pung Ti
Komando " chih"
CAKnya hands towards centre of circle
Sir Ti Pung Ti
Sir Ti Pung Ti
Sir Ti Pung Ti

Amok crescendo

Komanda;- "Chak"
Caknya:- Hands Wavering to centre
CAK CAK CAK
Suito soloist " pong pong pong"
Komando CAK
Caknya half standing CAK cak cak
or Half lying back CAK CAK cak
Komando "cih"
Caknya swap roles
Komamdo " Cok "
Caknya repeat
Komando "chi"
Caknya swap
Komando "Eeeet!"
Caknya hands like a hurricane"Queeeee"

peace at last
Komando "Uuut"
Caknya silently sit
Shuffle a bit

Komando "Cak"
Caknya
Cak"Cak"Cak"

Komando " Cih"
Caknya volume drops "CAK CAK CAK "

Komando claps
Caknya claps thrice

Komando "ha"
Caknya " ha ha ha"

Komando bends forward " uuuut"
Caknya " Sid d d d d d "
Komando " shhh"
Caknya falls back to full over-lapping lying position
Dedication
Solo melody
Guru yoga
Caknya hands prayer mudra
Komando " Ais"
Caknya brightly
"tit to la lirr . . . CAK
Tit toe lah lifer . . . Ais!
To ta le lo lo le la
Ya Ngor Yang
Ya Ngor Yang
Ya Ngor Yang
(adding volume with a blues base note)
Ije Buin Tiang
Mengalih ...
Sekadi Dew Ayu
Asing Manolih
asing Manulih
Ye Buduh Paling
Ye Buduh Paling
Ya Nger
Ya Ngar
Ya Nger
Yang Sirrrr
Ya Nger
Ya Ngar
ya Nger
Yang Sirrr
Komando "CAK"
Caknya " CAK CAK CAK "
Komando " Uuut!"
Caknya kasih mudra

happier daze may come again

2011-11-24T14:32:00.001-08:00

Where where when your path unfolds peacefully
In offering to heaven flowers be
Coming home softly in gentle dusk we
Once more find returning to family

Water falling to it's resting place
Clouds move gently on that horizon line
With a fireside glowing in your face
Smiling friends welcoming back with wine

All things in time will be separated
'Cept hearts that follow beats from Lamas' drum
This community once loved then hated
Will fence off the wilderness from the hum

Of songs for salvation sung in refuge
Midst Swana Dwipas subtle solitude

To Do to do ta dah Dada

2011-11-23T16:00:00.001-08:00

Write a play , get it performed
Unleash ideas while warm
Craft believable characters
Write compelling dialogue buzz
Construct a gripping plot
Try various end spots
Deal with writers block
Rewrite and polish shlock
Create winning comedy
Sripting practicalities
Staging logistics and engines
Script layout and submissions
Outlets and networking apps
Put your play on the map
Resource human beings for flyers publicity
And end up at Edinbourough fringe Mariaty!

Seeds of Wisdom

2011-11-23T15:56:00.001-08:00

Animals and trees
All over the planet
Wounded it not
For eons but now look!
Was it humans?
Well neither
Did indigenous
Tribes since
Millennia
Destroy the planets
Ability to support life
- Carbon Zero-
Before civilization
Produced the concept of economy
We did not need to worry about garbage

The Arrow Metaphor

2011-11-23T00:43:00.001-08:00

Life is so uncertain so
I pray
To be grateful for every day
Like Cox has become or so they say
And death comes without warning
Take mad cows for instance
Say I caught it Sunday
Go to work on Monday
Same again on Tuesday
'Cept can't turn on computer
Can't get to work on Wednesday
Not making it to the toiletThursday
In hospital by Friday
In the morgue by Sunday
What just happened?
Ask Gabriel or St Peter...

ASAA Artauds' Glimpse

2011-11-22T14:23:00.001-08:00

Artaud watched Balinese Dance Drama once
At '31 Colonial Expo
In the Dutch Pavilion Paris France
Where he saw metaphysical fear

Magical rite not drawing room drama
That was emergent then. Oui, purity!
Physical and sensuous theatre
No psychological head trips, simply

Total theatre free of polite constraints
An ancient,natural science of gothic
Intensely real fears not cheap amusements
Not clever artifices. Untragic

Ways to make music supernatural
Gestures make natures' drama wonderful

ASAA AAAAAH YEEEYO

2011-11-22T03:21:00.001-08:00

It was written once in ASAAs' journal
The creation of masks and dance drama
Reflects a Balinese predilection
For expressing important notions

In a tangible form of concrete art
For instance a show may celebrate a
Demonic mask arising from someone
Having a nightmare so that is hidden

And a solution is elucidated
In the play drawn from popular epics
And emphasizing the relevant theme
Makes fears or tragedies feel overcome

Their arts contrast common grotesquery
With the aesthetics in ceremony

ASAA Tiga

2011-11-21T20:11:00.001-08:00

Why so morbid on Balis' rustic stage ?
They must play such grossness and awfulness?
Those distortions inflicted on bodies
And on their, our minds? Somatic spectacles

That impact on human beings in alarming ways
Serve to alert us by grotesqueries
In artistry and metaphysical
Mis-en -scene of Bali performing arts

The derangement and the transformation
Concomitant with disease written
Into the witches gist and demon masks
Carvings and graphics associated

With Balinese healing arts traditions
So to, my po seek to make you happy

The second ASAA reflection

2011-11-20T15:03:00.001-08:00

The western systems of category
And critical conceptualisation
Do not apply too well to the Bali
Dance drama setting or theatre forms

Dancers, directors are anonymous
There are no playwrights no critics nor stars
Like religion its' integral to life
In the local village or regency

Social dance music drama as we know it
Is not there, stages are not set structures
But places like forest seaside graveyards
And temple grounds provide the focal space

What's the impulse to create theatre?
Community growth towards social bonds?

At the hawthorn library precinct I read an ASAA article & remembered our Sutosoma >

2011-11-19T17:43:00.001-08:00

What's up with expressive significance
Of Balinese dance characteristics
Jist cries shivers eye movements gropes grasping
And staggers. All extremely stylized

Elements of a neurological
Vocabulary describing morbid
Conditions of human life. Mimed to bring
Magic afoot as a healing art form

Originally played just for locals
Now grown a secular wing (some trance stays)
We can see good cause though why it's a joyless
Animal mimicry with struggle signs

Authors wandered if they were looking at
An anomaly in theatre study

Patterns of Clarifaction

2011-11-18T14:20:00.001-08:00

To respond to the criticism then
Would look differently at the story line
To embed the past into the moment
Thus quickening ones sense of a new dawn

As in when Kunti is united with
Surya played during Karnas entrance
To the tournament. Or when Arjuna
Meets Shiva seen through the eyes of four guys

Simultaneity of action played
Within a known space time continuum
That dissolves into fresh understanding
Where recurring themes become more complex

Elaboration is far more crucial
Than the smooth progress storyline

Defenders Karma

2011-11-17T16:12:00.001-08:00

Jambawan;

Of the million demon warriors we
Must have reduced a fair amount by now
This fine line tween victory and genocide
We must be getting close Indrajit his son
The last general left then after that he
Certainly must take to the field again
Soon and they will all feel their final fall
The day of Rama's destiny draws near
Ho! here flies flaming arrows from nowhere
Indrajit returns once more! Form a wall
Follow the retreats of Wibisanas'
Entourage those point guards will show angle
For our wall of defence 'gin defenders
Rama ;
Drat! I'm wounded by the prince of darkness
Once again
Laksmana;
...........Also you have showered him back!
Away! Your wounds are deeper but so to
Your shots cut his quick the further well done!
There look now how he returns in full flight
His chariot floating like a cloud, but hold
what's this I see on his sheild ? Not... Sita dead?

MAPS

2011-11-16T19:53:00.001-08:00

What is bipolar disorder? Participant experience
Combined with health journal in their work book
Stress triggers? antidote is" I Can Do"
Vulnerability mixed with coping means

Monitoring mood impact on disease
Problem solving wil remedy the next time
Preventing relapse by some goal setting
And problem solving techniques, slowing down

The worrying self talk behaviors
Skill up to tolerate ongoing stress
Medication and optimizing health
Managing depression How some folk have?

Mania handling by reading" Incoming!"
Booster sessions to build in daily lives

circa 2002

2011-11-16T12:43:00.001-08:00

Screenplay invited me to submit a future project
In PDF a synopsis the first fifteen pages a character breakdown
Details of cast requirements and my biography
Also a personal statement why me and my script

Would benefit from the programme aims outcomes,
And contributions I was encouraged to "make my case"
Considered as important as script itself
To be evaluated as suitable is the "joint application"

Of script and the writer once the apps' considered
A complete script can be considered All writers
Retain full copyright but Screenplays' interested in
Writers who demonstrate co- active approach

They seek ongoing participation in program by me
Consider this. Can text be understood in a reading?
Is it under 120 pages long. And ready for audience input?
Is film the best means to tell the story?
Does it comply with industry standard formatting?

2005dreams

2011-11-15T15:06:00.001-08:00

Timon of Athens was to play back then
With I .T . students , pros and ID guys
I wrote a polite letter, punctuated
In official style describing my dreams

Proposing those guys familiar with me
Join in this Shakespeare performance project
To work along side professionals
And students to dance the debt prophecy

Bussing to rehearsal studio
For a weekly two hour practicum
Lasting one term that would involve students
In some relationship building with guys

Who could then express joy and excitement
In a respectable community

Framing work

2011-11-14T13:25:00.001-08:00

Frame works for health is dedicated to
Translating real world health research into
Clinical practise through development
Of programs researched and implemented

Working with organizations on their
Service delivery models of care
And on stand alone programs. The team is
Multidisciplinary with support

From a statistician to audit their
Work. They had developed some new programs
Informed by focus groups and evidence
Found in research literature that aims

To extend the practise beyond the scope
Of mental health into other care fields

Batavia

2011-11-13T19:46:00.001-08:00

Doc knew he had to get rid of soldiers
Loyal to the Dutch East Indies Company
To successfully start a renegade republic
so he hatched a cunning rouse, at dinner
He commanded them to help out by leaving
Their muskets and swords with him and row
Over to the other island with some
Empty barrels to find water for their
Ongoing survival. The next morning
His side kicks rowed them over in the boat
And told them they'd would return before night
To pick them up or earlier if they
Saw their smoke signal. When they did
Send up a smoke signal the Drs' thugs
Did not return, thus his way to start his
Bold new republic was now unfettered.
But it was not such a clever plan as
The soldiers who were obviously were
Unarmed and calm thus considered worthy
Of help by local tribal fishermen
Who showed them where to find water and eggs,
Thus they stayed healthy and clear headed,
Whilst the remaining folk in the main group
Grew delirious with little water
And food Also confused by the Dr dressing
Up in royal robes flying a strange flag

Jambawan2

2011-11-13T14:15:00.001-08:00

Rama ;

Take flames with sticks and burn down their resolve
Let them bring Sita forth for our withdrawal
This second day of sacking her outskirts
Renders no joy for this devilish king
Bury their armories with rocks and trees
Now, some generals do more sport sortie
Attack all as one follow my bow
Here's the brothers Kumbu and Nikumbu
Brilliant stratagem but attack but we prevail
Dispatched off to their just deserts or worse
Surender in death by renouncing hell
Choose bliss and peace forever, no more war
Ah now it's the son of karas' mega snakes
Maharajahs military sideshow to often there
Another pillar of this palace poof!

2011-11-12T13:21:00.001-08:00

Jambawan;
Misunderstand me not for Ramas' sake
I ask of Hanuman for he's the one
Who if still living shall redeem us all
For he may fly to Himalayan peaks
Where grows upon one slope fresh blue flowers
The scent of which shall make all fallen live
Hanuman;
I will away just tell me compass point
Jambawan;
South East but do this before first rays
Hanuman;
Like the wind my father do I rush up
Straight on how far it is ? I'll know once there
I fly and stretch yet no sign nor scent
All day long and now the evening past
If I'm to return in time I must harvest fast

Mindfulness manifest as protection, through exertion and restraint

2011-11-11T14:55:00.001-08:00

The Yarnarama dance troupe was my dream
Touring schools with an innovative review
Of the ancient epical adventure
That had been reinvented for TV

I we hoped to mix it up with music
Multimedia and dancing actors
To enhance scholastic communities
Opening up to guardian angels

Enriching friendship and family value
Through kecak song dance games and romance
Expanding notions of relationship
Between individuals and cultures

Teaching ecologic compassion
Steadfast honour and she mindfulness

Ramayana

2011-11-11T01:18:00.001-08:00

Ravana;
Yes yes Wibi told me so as you do
I disagreed with him as with you now
Firstly he argued then I banished him
His understanding of me is weak
You however are not so middling meek
Therefor strap on your courage and help me
Make trunchant mayhem amongst this enemy
Kumakarna;
This then will be my ticket to lasting peace
They will chop suey or I'll wake no more
OK Let me wear my mountain cap
Also my blue flamed spear from the naga king
I'll to battle without support trod behind
No more of these warnings "Don't step here Nor there"
Let such tippy toey carefulness be over
For now it is certain that what's not crushed
Will be torn usunder or bitten to death!
Aside banners I'll march straight to foes heart
I'll stride forward to west gate, now so I start

Rama;
Laksmana what darkens the sky so?
What shakes the earth? It shudders dimness in
Wibisana;
Hark! I sensed it so... my brothers storming
And he's fully weaponed. He is Lankas' last word
We are in for one hellishly harsh battle
He's the very crown of Lankan cruelty
The banner of her strength and certainty.
Rama;
Sugriva tell your clansmen to retreat
Their end is not my wish but safety
Sugriva;
They say the sun passes under his arch
And when he steps the earth quakes but it's all talk
From you in this trial we will never balk
But stand and fight to make our loved ones proud
Kumakarna ;
These apes and bears ornament our gardens
It's Rama who's the core of this strife
So therefor it's I who'll chase him from life
Hanuman;
Take that you eater of apes drop dead!
Kamakarna ;
Yeow! With my spear I'll swat you !
Grrrr, it's broken, lucky I need no weapon
To crush this Rama with my hands alone
See how these animals flee before me
Only that bear king Jambawan stands ground
Hanuman is down Go to Anganda
Laksmana your arrows have no effect
I'll step across you all once Rama's dead
Laksmana will be next as I return
Argh! Ramas' arrow strikes my heart no sweat

11.11.11

2011-11-10T15:36:00.001-08:00

One hears a lot about the plays long time
One Mahabarata show can be short

One scene or sequence focused on all night
One hour long just covering current themes

One actor dancer demonstrating jist
One can assume the audience knows context