Announcing the new OSLIST Poet Laureate

[Toke Paludan Møller]

Congratulations Teresa....

magic in life
magic in words
magically honored
by mates
in the space
that is always
open

greeting the poet in us all

- toke
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Den 28/09/2006 kl. 20.16 skrev Chris Corrigan:

> Teresa!  Fantastic!
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> (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).
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> I laugh robustly at the synchronicity of it all!
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> Chris
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> On 9/24/06, Lisa Heft <lisaheft at openingspace.net> wrote:
>  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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> To land on…
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> …her magic words.
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> Must be nectar there…
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> Ms. Teresa Posakony is the writer of poem #3, "Diving Deep", and  
> the new Poet Laureate of our OSLIST community.
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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 continues.
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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 wishes and congratulations.
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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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> #1
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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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> #2
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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
> 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.
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>           -- by Chris Corrigan (Bowen Island, British Columbia,  
> Canada)
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> #3
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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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> ___________________________
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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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