POETRY CONTEST ENTRIES

[Laurel and Rick]

YIKES!  Did I miss an entry???  Helen, could you please help me find this one or send it to me?  Thanks.  Laurel.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Helen Patterson 
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:12 AM
  Subject: Re: POETRY CONTEST ENTRIES


  Where's the Fairy-ring, mushroom poem?

  Regards
  Helen
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Laurel and Rick 
    To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU 
    Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:10 PM
    Subject: POETRY CONTEST ENTRIES


    OK, folks, grab your virtual sticky dots and get ready for some really tough choices.  I'd like to present the 14 wonderful entries into the biannual OSLIST POETRY CONTEST.  Please vote with 5 virtual sticky dots each, and send your replies to me by November 9th at noon, Pacific Standard Time.  Please vote by poem number (best not to peek back at the list to ascertain who wrote what!).

    Brian, Viv and the Oz contingent, could you please post the entries on a wall at the OSonOSinOZ???  Here are the 14 entries . . . enjoy!

      
    1.

    ONOSONOS

    What is it?
    Is it a political movement?
    Or perchance just a social affair?
    Or is it a much deeper process?
    Does it have a mite 'mystical' air?
    Forfend we should try to define it,
    dissect it, titrate it, for fear
    that our postmodern administrations
    would destroy what we all hold so dear.
    (I just so much wish I were there!)




    2.

    THE SEED

    Crack open a possibility
    And get your bet down
    Roll the dice through the warm furrow
    Call forth the soaking, roiling heavens
    Breathe deep the gifts of sunny summer days
    And absorb the muscled mercies of a gardener¹s hand
    Commune with the change of seasons full and season¹s end
    Stretch out your sweet intention.
    Gather close all the children
    Whisper the truth
    Behold the future



    3.

    OSLIST

    The Open Space Community,

    A life-line this past year,

    Of invasions and uncertainty.

    Spirited conversations,

    Circling the globe,

    Weaving a web

    Of love, trust, hope, healing, 

    And, best of all, challenge,

    Opening space in cyberspace,

    A technology for transformation.



    4.

    TRANSFORMATION

    Open space in your heart
    Drill down
    down
    down
    Past all fears
    Let them go
    Arrive in virgin open space
    Where you become brand new
    once again
    and greet yourself as if for the first time.





    5.

    TEN LINES FOR FRIENDS IN NOVEMBER

    Now, as vernal and autumnal dance their biannual swirl
    Over the sea out my window and diagonal to my point on this globe
    Vitality flows through the unexamined places
    Embraced by my friends as they gather in
    Marysville, non descript and of no particular geography
    But the centre of one of my worlds for a moment
    Explorers dancing in the space of decades
    Returning to their centres, the vast opened places

    1000 hearts could beat together in that place and yet
    One would be left behind, butterflying in descending darkness.



    6.

    Caught like a cup
    Full
    Brimmed with the beauty
    Of the human heart
    Alone together
    Alert
    To the tender intelligence
    Of the not quite born
    Becoming.



    7.

    I have felt the earthy peace that grows from the center of the circle.
    In rainy budapest the bus arrives; late that night we find small beds.
    The russians are coming after days on an ancient train.
    Morning in the village: eighty people, eighteen tongues, and the shock
    Of a coup in russia. the space yawns open like an earthquake fault.
    But peace is a living being, like snaking shoots of ivy that wrap and
    intertwine us.
    On the third day yeltsin stands triumphant in the street. and here a trunk
    yawns open:
    Vodka by the case, and eighty crystal glasses. we toast. we sing. we dance!
    My father taught me to hate the russians - their menacing blood-red on the
    world map - but
    I have felt the earthy peace that grows from the center of the circle.



    8.

    O...ne with the greater
    P...ractice letting go
    E...xpanding the
    N...ow
    - Together...
    S...tep into the unknown
    P...ractice peace
    A...ll dancing
    C...ircling
    E...merging



    9.

    back in the USA
    meeting friends south of San Francisco bay
    hearts opening in the october sun like garage doors
    marshmellow peeps and electrical bonfire
    Giants and Angels fighting everywhere
    national flags on the lawns
    pumpkins pumpkins pumpkins
    Bush Putin Sharon the Halloween monsters
    will I ever understand this country?
    hoping the cat sitter does a good job in Munich





    10.

    What is it ? what is it ?

    to go to the center 

    and then leave it open 

    to sit at the rim 

    enjoying 

    the space - the place - the now 

    what touches my heart ? 

    so deep and free 

    to let myself and others 

    so spaciously free to be ?




    11.

    A CIRCLE LINE IN OPEN SPACE

    the first line starts alone as mine
    line two is totally for you
    number three lets us now say: we
    a fourth one leads us further on
    to number five which gives life
    for a sixth one for to mix up
    with the seventh even yet having
    contact to the white number eight
    which leads to line number nine
    ending with ten in closing down -- to one again.




    12.

    leaves are falling in the twilight
    all over the world
    on secret lakeshores and mountainsides.
    As you prepare to walk the circle
    pick up a leaf and read it. 
    We are a bundle in a basket, 
    little children starting
    on a journey, being wrapped
    with such care that we might 
    look to the sky and weep with wonder



    13.

    SIGHTINGS . . . 


    they say when deer 

    come into your life 

    you should beware 

    (not afraid) 

    gentle with yourself 

    new adventure 

    is not far behind 

    this weekend I saw 

    and was seen 

    seven times...



    14.

    space opens

    in hearts when 
    compassionate listening lingers

    in minds teasing
    sparks of new ideas to 
    ignite positive passion

    in rooms
    where collective spirit
    waters and warms the juicy seeds
    of right action

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