Here's one of my favorite bardic tales, told Always For The First Time, by Robin Williamson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFqtEMLx2zk --- In [email protected], turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > > I'm waiting for Turq's daily rant written using the 15 > > beats. Or maybe we ought to have a posting contest for > > posts using the 15 beats. I was looking through those > > and imagining posts written that way. :-D > > Warped minds think alike. :-) I actually was toying > with both of these ideas earlier, but followed up on > neither. > > I *did* like the article, and recognize the (gulp!) > truth of and the effectiveness of the formula. And > I am the first to admit that a film or TV episode > can be brilliant and wonderful even if it slavishly > follows this formula. > > But in real life the only formula I have ever written > to was haiku -- the number of syllables, and all. I've > never even felt constrained, when attempting poetry, > to stick to the formulas of rhyme and meter often > associated with that art. > > If asked to pin down my approach to anything creative > I write, I would have to describe it as "bardish." > > That is, I wind up approaching the writing the way a > traveling bard of old might have approached coming > upon an open fire in the wilderness late at night, > being invited to join the party huddled around it, > and then -- having been recognized, possibly by the > harp you are carrying, as a bard -- being invited > to pay for your spot around the fire by telling > a story. > > For the fellow travelers around the fire, the story > that emerges as the result of such a request is a one- > time event, here and Now. They will draw whatever magic > they can from the tale told during the next hour in > which it is being told, or they will miss the magic > forever. There are no "do overs" when it comes to > bardic tales, and the appreciation thereof. You > either get it as it is being told, or you do not. > > For the bard, however, the request inspires another > kind of koan. The crowd has asked for a tale, and you > have many. Which is the appropriate one to tell tonight? > How will you manage to tell it in such a way as to > cause everyone in the audience to believe that it is > the first and only time you have ever told this tale? > > Because -- from the bard's side -- that is the magic > of telling stories. Every one is new. Even if you have > told it a thousand times before. >
