we come out today in the quest of more creative spots around the greater boston cambridge area and we've come to one of my barely favorite recommendations or haunts it's the national historic monument for h rewards worth one problem and it's called the cricket house it's right outside of harvard square a lot of people miss it when they come to boston but it's a great great place this is where longfellow lived with it raised his family and wrote most of his e house which is a great place to start off the show these are the garden at longfellow house and they are perfect today everything is blooming we've got poppies peonies flowers i'm not even sure what their names are there's an snapdragon and you really do think about stays with us he's in the collective unconscious if nothing more then listen my children unusual hear of the midnight ride of paul revere he captures something in our imagination he's easy to listen to hear perhaps and understand and there's something in the creative process i believe we can explore more we're going to go back to the studio and we're going to do more with poetry that we're going to talk about some poetry from a totally different origin and halfway around the world as promised we're back in belmont and we're going to continue our talking about poetry because today thing is the art and poetry it's a huge topic and it probably warrants many shows but since we only have the one today we decided we would just hit some highlights of poetry i lucas of regular watchers know that lucas is always here on our cam he's agreed  single year of school we've always had to do a unit on poets she was spending for fourth grade till even this year you know as a years progress we get into more in depth poetry and i think in high school it becomes really hard to understand the meanings of poetry that we read you know the words don't fit together like isn't a normal sentence and yet in you really have to understand a deeper meaning and we spend a lot of time analyzing  poems yeah i think in school sometimes people learn to hate poetry because of school yeah i mean i've talked to be and i can't stand poetry because it can be boring or it depends on who they select you know there are a lot of contemporary writers i've heard several high school students that i've talked to recently and i didn't was not even familiar with some of the current but there are some really modern poets that young people like a lot all even the performance poetry or people where they are now getting up and really almost acting out the poetry which is exciting longfellow i'm guessing in new england you must have studied longfellow a little bit you know the essay in urdu steam and the as on the opening the show we talked about the fact that he's he's kind of criticized because he's seen old fashioned and his poetry is kind of corny but it is easy to understand longfellow it's not real complicated and then you get into some other poems that you don't know what the meaning is it's a very intricate poetry you expressed it it i heard somebody say it's a former art form it's somewhere between music and prose and it's a little bit never neverland it is harder yeah i understand and the people that write it are amazing all the different types of poetry did you write some yeah i think that was required we had to write a few i can well i'm not even sure where we're going on the show i thought we'd experiment we never do where we're going because it's all about improvisation and being in the moment and the best i got from doing a little bit of research on haikus is there frequently are about nature and the traditional japanese objects is about nature one thing i read said it's there were some famous poet the last seventeen breasts of your life it's a very momentary thing and and they do write them spontaneously now i don't know whether we can write once one tiny slate this would be the real assignment making art spontaneously is easy for me or easier than some things and i think for most people writing poetry i don't know the other aspect of it that i found out is traditionally in japan all the all of asia in fact they will do artwork while they are reading a haiku and the artwork tends to be part of it so what i saw in the shows we're going to play around with this lucas and we'll see i've got some paper it's not actually rice paper it's kind of parchment paper but all it should have stormed and haikus and high god is how i'm going to pronounce it ha i ga you pronounce it if everything they do it is to be in that moment which is part of buddhism you know a lot of buddhism is that you there is only this moment and there is no past there's no future and so similarly with this type of art work they want to be in that moment and you can't think about it consequently they use ink which is very permanent and you get one chance to make a stroke of the brush just like with i q you you use those just say the first seventeen syllables that come out of your mouth and the belief is which is part of make her feel better that you inherently actually know what you want to make and then when we think about things we probably spoil what we're going to do so i don't even want a big piece of paper we can practice with some small paper and there can try something bigger i got something arty to work with i have a back up it would be a little bit more of a cheat don't we here now get an idea we are this is this this is totally spontaneous and i'm sure everybody watching it knows that we're all kind of which is good can you find a haiku on your phone sure ok you want to try that and you want to try one and you can read it and then we'll make smart and see what happens i think it's much better you know it's interesting i had no idea which haiku you were going to pick but one of the characters that appear in fact it's this one right here means jump start kind it's kind of interesting as the as things work out that you  oh this is so beautiful don't worry and sex lovers stars themselves must part wow but i was thinking yeah i was thinking of the heart breaking open and the insects crawling out and each one of the sides of the heart belongs to one of the two people to show the division i'd love one beautiful again we're complicated you want to try one more and we we could do something a little different this time if you want to we care if we can put an american spin on th overripe sushi the master is full of regret well i'm thinking that and i don't know we have american sushi or what we eat there when something is right and ready to be eaten for it there is there are some sadness when it's ready to be  look like ghosts but they have some type of lanterns reminds me of something do you know what i would say about this lucas we're just sitting here doing this i feel like i'm going to a different space y know if there's a quietness i would highly recommend this to be for the try it's home it's quite lovely if you get the japanese music well you have to have a little of this of the japanese music in the background but this is it's quite nice we always say make yeah and she had presents wrapped up and that's a japanese custom they don't use wrap wrapping paper they wrap a gift in that and then you take when you take a present to someone's home you take it in that and you take it home  what to say and you could try but i don't know hard to do under pressure and something about make art feel better feel better there we go fellow's very early points as a young man interestingly enough was a psalm of life which has sort of a somber tone to it i have a very good friend in atlanta who was quite ill a number of years ago and she tells me that when she cemetery this is where longfellow and his wives and children are all billy it's a beautiful old cemetery on the border of belmont with great flowers trees and one whole place to walk and just kind of collect your thoughts and i thought if we just a few stanzas from the psalm of life tell me not in mournful numbers life is but an empty dream for the soul is dead that slumbers and things are not with they seen life is real life is earnest and the grave is not its goal just now are to dust return as was not spoken of the soul not enjoyment and not sorrow is our destined inder way but to act