Announcing the new OSLIST Poet Laureate

Harrison Owen hhowen at verizon.net
Thu Sep 28 14:41:43 PDT 2006


Long live the NEW Poet Laureate. And many thanks for your poesy !!

 

Harrison

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
Corrigan
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:17 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Announcing the new OSLIST Poet Laureate

 

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:

 Hello, dear friends and colleagues -

 

I am delighted to announce our new Poet Laureate. 

 

 

Stickie-dots flow into my Inbox like many-colored butterflies 

 

To land on.

 

.her magic words.

 

Must be nectar there.

 

 

 

Ms. Teresa Posakony is the writer of poem #3, "Diving Deep", and the new
Poet Laureate of our OSLIST community.

 

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
continues.

 

I am honored to pass the tiara to Teresa.

 

Wear it in good health (and you'll look so stylish, too!), with my warm
wishes and congratulations.

 

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.

 

________________________________________

 

 

#1

 

 

 

the symbols ring

 

the voices sing

 

the space opens

 

my heart follows

 

the day unfolds

 

... behold!

 

 

 

 

          -- by Kerry Napuk (Edinburgh, Scotland)

 

 

 

 

________________________________________

 

 

#2

 

 

 

The sense of things

 

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 

we sense into the most astonishing places together, you and I
into the tight cracking of possibility
screaming for release

we let the humour of despair rest on our tongues,
choke our eyes with tears and scour our nostrils
with tendrils of acrid smoke.

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

I have seen the music of leadership
arise to dance with chaos;

watched the bitterness of hunger
fade into the dark recesses of the palette;

heard the smooth and cool surface of flow
course through networks of veins;

tasted the colour of peace:
its pure yellow flavour flecked with crimson notes;

smelled the birth of worlds and the shifting of lives;
in ever opening space.

 

 

 

 

          -- by Chris Corrigan (Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada)

 

 

 

 

 

________________________________________

 

 

 

#3

 

 

 

Diving Deep

 

 

 

 

Diving Deep

Are you ready?

No I mean. 

Are you READY?

 

The time is now

Hold my hand

Together we dive

Into the river of heart and soul

 

The water is deep and quick

All there is to do is trust the flow

Struggling makes no sense though

We don't know where the river goes

 

The choice is clear

Ready

Set

Wait a minute Let me catch my breath

 

Go. 

 

 

 

 

          -- by Teresa Posakony (Seattle, Washington, USA)

 

 

 

 

 

___________________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you, Chris, Kerry and Teresa for sharing your gifts with us, 

 

Lisa

___________________________

 

L i s a   H e f t

Consultant, Facilitator, Educator

O p e n i n g  S p a c e

 <mailto:lisaheft at openingspace.net> lisaheft at openingspace.net

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