Announcing the new OSLIST Poet Laureate

[Chris Corrigan]

Teresa!  Fantastic!

(Teresa and I have just finished working together for the first time,
co-hosting a four day Art of Hosting training with Tennesonn Woolf and
Brenda Chaddock).

I laugh robustly at the synchronicity of it all!

Chris

On 9/24/06, Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net> wrote:
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>   Hello, dear friends and colleagues –
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> *I am delighted to announce our new **Poet Laureate**…*
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> Stickie-dots flow into my Inbox like many-colored butterflies
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> *Ms. Teresa Posakony* is the writer of poem #3, "Diving Deep", and the new
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> Teresa will hold this title for the next six months or so, holding space
> for poetry on the list by inviting, noticing, inspiring, offering
> poetry…whatever is her unique way.  And at the end of that six months or so
> she will host another restricted form poetry contest …and so the tradition
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> I am honored to pass the tiara to Teresa.
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> Wear it in good health (and you'll look so stylish, too!), with my warm
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> Here again are the three amazing poems, and now, the talented, thoughtful
> mystery poets will be revealed.  What a wonderful thing to have people like
> you in our world…
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> the symbols ring
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> the voices sing
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> the space opens
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> my heart follows
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> the day unfolds
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> ... behold!
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> *          -- by Kerry Napuk (Edinburgh, Scotland)*
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> The sense of things
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> I have seen the texture of space
> felt the sound of silence, falling in a wide open offering
> tasted hesitancy and the sweetness of light
> touching time
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> we sense into the most astonishing places together, you and I
> into the tight cracking of possibility
> screaming for release
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> we let the humour of despair rest on our tongues,
> choke our eyes with tears and scour our nostrils
> with tendrils of acrid smoke.
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> we walk together in circles
> dizzy with the sensation of silent music
> anxious that the soft holding
> be strong enough to withstand the wails of pain and joy
> that accompany liberation
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> I have seen the music of leadership
> arise to dance with chaos;
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> watched the bitterness of hunger
> fade into the dark recesses of the palette;
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> heard the smooth and cool surface of flow
> course through networks of veins;
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> tasted the colour of peace:
> its pure yellow flavour flecked with crimson notes;
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> smelled the birth of worlds and the shifting of lives;
> in ever opening space.
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> Diving Deep
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> Diving Deep
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> Are you ready?
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> No I mean…
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> Are you READY?
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> The time is now
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> Hold my hand
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> Together we dive
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> Into the river of heart and soul
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> The water is deep and quick
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> All there is to do is trust the flow
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> Struggling makes no sense though
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> We don't know where the river goes
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> The choice is clear
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> Ready
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> Set
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> Wait a minute Let me catch my breath
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> Go.
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> *          -- by Teresa Posakony (Seattle, Washington, USA)*
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> Thank you, Chris, Kerry and Teresa for sharing your gifts with us,
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> Lisa
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> *L i s a   H e f t*
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> Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
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> O p e n i n g  S p a c e
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> lisaheft at openingspace.net
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> www.openingspace.net
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