Starkers. My Songline of Stark Poetry and Prose.
New adventure in my songline writing experiments.
Songlines
Australian Aboriginals devised and refined their Songlines to preserve and pass down their cultural identity over 65000 years, World’s oldest continuous civilisation.
Songlines based on associative memory, Memory cues assigned to bark paintings distinctive landscapes wildlife and artifacts to guide elder’s performance of cultural recitals song and dance at songline’s sacred sites.
Songline Thinking is my attempt to use songline’s structure and application of associative memory techniques to write my stories and poems.
Have applied songline thinking to diverse subjects: my apartment’s life steam locomotives ideation and gardening.
My Concerns.
Attempted to show how my stories and poems could be considered songline structures.
Approach was based on notion that songlines could provide narrative structures and context to poem or story.
Looking back, I’m concerned with matching my perception of songline structure to self contained poetic and narrative language forms.
Context is key, Single story suitable for portraying single performance at songline site or perhaps summarising site’s performances, Songline encompasses not only every carefully sequenced performances but also overall journey’s experiences between all sites.
Songlines are not merely performance containers but purposeful cultural objectives where whole is greater than sum of its parts.
Question arises, How to effectively use songline structures in my writing?
New Direction.
Many thoughts, Many loose-ends, Then idea slowly crept up on me, Perhaps Medium’s publication would meet my songline intentions by providing a context container?
Stories and poems gathered together ordered amd linked through context using publication’s key words and feature pages ?
My exploration, My experimentation, My learning-by-doing starts with “Starkers” my Songline publication.
My first trial will use my happy gardening experiences with a dash of forest walking and references to Gaia, Exciting adventure.
Songline of Gardening.
Blessed be.