Poetry Contest Voting to Commence :)

Mon Mar 10 17:31:36 PDT 2008

#2 3 dots#8 2 dots

2008/3/10 Karen Sella <karen at luminacoaching.com>:

>  Greetings All,
>
>
>
> Behold!  The muses have spoken!  It is time to vote on the poetry
> submissions for our most recent 2008 Poetry Contest to determine who will hold
> the title of Poet Laureate for the next six months or so.  You each have *
> 5* virtual sticky-dots to spend.  You may place all dots on one poem, or
> some on each; you may vote for yourself or for another -- however you would
> like to spend them to mark your sense of which poems speak to you.
>
>
>
>
>
> Please send an email to me off-list: karen at luminacoaching.com by Friday,
> March 14th, to tell me how you have placed your virtual dots for each
> numbered poem.  I will collect your messages this week, score over the
> weekend, and announce next week who we've chosen to be our next Poet
> Laureate (the author of the poem that received the most dotsJ).
>
>
>
> For those of you who may be new on the list, the OSLIST has a Poet
> Laureate who is awarded the title through a poetry contest held every six
> months or so (initiated by the current Poet Laureate—and usually graciously
> assisted by our Lisa Heft).  The Poet Laureate holds space for poetry on the
> list by inviting, noticing, inspiring, offering poetry and hosting the next
> poetry contest…
>
>
>
> Just a reminder, this contest's topic was: *The personal, inner experienceof Open Space—the open space
> within the unbounded expanse of heart and mind…*
>
>
>
> And now, without further ado, the eight poems for your enjoyment and
> voting…
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>
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> *#1  *
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>
>
> ODE TO MY BREATH
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>
>
> HOURS SLIP BY
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> DAYS RUN OFF
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> YEARS PILE UP
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> GOOD TIMES
>
> SAD TIMES
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> MEMORABLE MOMENTS
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> GLIMPSES OF BLISS
>
> ALL COME AND GO
>
> IN THEIR OWN RHYTHM
>
>  WHAT WILL BE NEXT?
>
> YES, I KNOW  WHAT'S NEXT
>
> WITH UNFAILING SURETY
>
> IT IS MY BREATH
>
> HERE IT COMES
>
> IN,HOLD, THEN OUT
>
> LET GO
>
> MAKE IT DEEP
>
> EMBRACE OT FULLY
>
> THEN LET IT FLY
>
>
>
> SOON THE CYCLE BEGINS AGAIN
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> NEVER CEASING, ON AND ON
>
> UNTILL THE END OF MY TIME IN THIS SWIRLING UNIVERSE
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>
>
> *#2*
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>
>
> the duck floats by
>
> nonchalantly
>
> oblivious to breaking the ripples in the water quack!
>
>
>
> *#3*
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>
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> NO POEM
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>
>
> NO POEM TODAY
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> NOT MUCH TO SAY
>
> THOUGHTS COME AND GO
>
> IMAGES DRIFT FAST AND SLOW
>
> SADNESS CREEPS IN
>
> WORRIES LOOP AND SPIN
>
> TRY TO GET BACK TO HERE AND NOW
>
> LET THIS MOMENT SHOW ME HOW
>
> WASH AWAY FEARS AND PAIN
>
> CONFIDENCE COME UP AGAIN
>
> NOW I SEE A BUTTERFLY
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> SPREADING WINGS, CIRCLING HIGH
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> COURAGE SPREADS THROUGH ME LIKE LIGHT
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> COME STAY WITH ME ALL DAY AND NIGHT
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>
>
> *#4*
>
>
>
> When my father died I grieved all year.
>
> But Michael Stipe was right that sweetness follows.
>
>
>
> When it's over,
>
> A cloud of feeling lingers, calls up memories, shows me the world with
> eyes more raw, more open to this stark, leafless maple growing in the
> sidewalk.
>
> And shows me to the work that's next to do.
>
>
>
> When it's over,
>
> We might start that lovely, awkward dance of hugs, and wait our turn to
> hug Ralph, and Chris, Karen, Joelle, and Lisa, everyone who won and wrote
> and read, and lay a wreath for Laurel on the earth.
>
>
>
> When it's over,
>
> we might stand in Harrison's circle with hands joined and faces outward,
> hearts burst open to the horizon and the mystery of walking toward it, alone
> and together, finding spaces snapping open like poppies.
>
>
>
> *#5*
>
>
>
> Can we live in a larger world
>
> Than ever we have before?
>
> The world that we can think about
>
> Is puny by comparison
>
> To what can happen if we let it
>
> Thinking opens doors to only ordinary things
>
> Bumping's the trick of the nothing in between
>
> Where living lives & giving gives
>
> & Everything in nothing is
>
> What grows a larger living world
>
>
>
> *#6*
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>
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> Open space is not empty
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> Instead fertile fecund bumpy
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> Inviting
>
> We go to it not empty but overflowing
>
> Seeking to give without control
>
> Willing to receive without expecting
>
> Expecting limits us & we are without limits
>
>
>
> To live in open space is to
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> Invite
>
>         —help
>
>         —engagement
>
>         —meeting
>
> Be invited
>
>         —to help
>
>         —to leave
>
> Be inviting
>
> Help before you're invited
>
> Let invitations come and go
>
> & not count the difference
>
>
>
> Live it before you know it
>
> Live it to know it
>
> Open space gently takes your hand
>
> Splash some on your face and body
>
> Listen—give voice—listen—live
>
>
>
> *#7*
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>
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> I am a dreamer
>
> My dreams start a journey
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> A road sparked by Spirit
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>
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> Spirit is the fuel that propels me
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> Without it there is no forward motion
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> No hope of betterment
>
>
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> Space is the place dreams are born
>
> It is not sleep that produces them
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> It is the open and clear field of possibility
>
>
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> When I am in Open Space
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> Spirit is always present
>
> Here the dream begins and so does my travel I travel in good company
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>
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> Keep your Spirit
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> I am dreaming with you
>
>
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>
>
> *#8*
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>                                                 *breathing*
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> *                        connecting                        opening*
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>
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> *            breathing
> breathing*
>
> *
> *
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> *         witnessing
>   inviting*
>
> *            *
>
> *
>   breathing
> breathing*
>
>
>
> *          letting go
>            co-creating*
>
> *            *
>
> *                breathing
>   breathing*
>
> *                                                *
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> *                            naming                          emerging*
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> *                                                breathing*
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> _________________________
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>
>
> Happy votingJ,
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> k
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> Karen Sella
>
> Coaching:  www.luminacoaching.com
>
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>
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>
> Phone: 1.206.780.2998
>
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> lumina fr. L. *light, air, opening... ***
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