Announcing the New Poet Laureate!
Chris Corrigan
chris at chriscorrigan.com
Tue Mar 18 13:59:49 PDT 2008
Wow...what a cool collection that was.
Congrats Jeff...and thank you Karen for hosting another beautiful offering.
Chris
2008/3/17 Karen Sella <karen at luminacoaching.com>:
> Greetings All,
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>
> First, a poem offering in gratitude:
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> *Being a Person*
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>
> *Be a person here. Stand by the river; invoke*
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> *the owls. Invoke winter; then spring.*
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> *Let any season that wants to come here to make its own*
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> *call. After that sound goes away, wait.*
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> * *
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> *A slow bubble rises through the earth*
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> *and begins to include sky, stars, all space,*
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> *even the outracing, expanding thought.*
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> *Come back and hear the little sound again.*
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> * *
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> *Suddenly this dream you are having matches*
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> *everyone's dream, and the result is the world.*
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> *If a different call came there wouldn't be any*
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> *world, or you, or the river; or the owls calling.*
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> * *
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> *How you stand here is important. How you*
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> *listen for the next things to happen. How you breathe.*
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> ~ William Stafford
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> And now, it is my great honor to announce our new Poet Laureate.
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> Mr. *Jeff Aitken* is the author of poem #4 and the new Poet Laureate of
> our OSLIST community. Jeff will hold this title for the next six months
> or so, holding space for poetry on the list by inviting, noticing,
> inspiring, offering poetry…as he is inspired. And at the end of that six
> months or so he will host another restricted form poetry contest …and so the
> tradition continues.
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>
>
> We pass the leafy crown to you, Mr. Aitken, with the deepest of bows. Here
> again are the amazing poems inspired by the inner Open Space with their
> authors revealed. Thank you to all the muses…
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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
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> SAD TIMES
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> MEMORABLE MOMENTS
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> GLIMPSES OF BLISS
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> ALL COME AND GO
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> IN THEIR OWN RHYTHM
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> WHAT WILL BE NEXT?
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> YES, I KNOW WHAT'S NEXT
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> WITH UNFAILING SURETY
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> IT IS MY BREATH
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> HERE IT COMES
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> IN,HOLD, THEN OUT
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> LET GO
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> MAKE IT DEEP
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> EMBRACE OT FULLY
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> THEN LET IT FLY
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> SOON THE CYCLE BEGINS AGAIN
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> NEVER CEASING, ON AND ON
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> UNTILL THE END OF MY TIME IN THIS SWIRLING UNIVERSE
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> ~ Trudie Richman
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> *#2*
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> the duck floats by
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> nonchalantly
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> oblivious to breaking the ripples in the water quack!
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> ~ Raffi Aftandelian
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> *#3*
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> NO POEM
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> NO POEM TODAY
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> NOT MUCH TO SAY
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> THOUGHTS COME AND GO
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> IMAGES DRIFT FAST AND SLOW
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> SADNESS CREEPS IN
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> WORRIES LOOP AND SPIN
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> TRY TO GET BACK TO HERE AND NOW
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> LET THIS MOMENT SHOW ME HOW
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> WASH AWAY FEARS AND PAIN
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> CONFIDENCE COME UP AGAIN
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> 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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> ~ Trudie Richman
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> *#4*
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> When my father died I grieved all year.
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> But Michael Stipe was right that sweetness follows.
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> When it's over,
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> 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.
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> And shows me to the work that's next to do.
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> When it's over,
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> 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.
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> When it's over,
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> 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.
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>
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> ~ Jeff Aitken
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> *#5*
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> Can we live in a larger world
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> Than ever we have before?
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> The world that we can think about
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> Is puny by comparison
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> To what can happen if we let it
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> Thinking opens doors to only ordinary things
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> Bumping's the trick of the nothing in between
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> Where living lives & giving gives
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> & Everything in nothing is
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> What grows a larger living world
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> ~ Doug Germann
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> *#6*
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> Open space is not empty
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> Instead fertile fecund bumpy
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> Inviting
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> We go to it not empty but overflowing
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> Seeking to give without control
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> Willing to receive without expecting
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> Expecting limits us & we are without limits
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> To live in open space is to
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> Invite
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> —help
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> —engagement
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> —meeting
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> Be invited
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> —to help
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> —to leave
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> Be inviting
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> Help before you're invited
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> Let invitations come and go
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> & not count the difference
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> Live it before you know it
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> Live it to know it
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> Open space gently takes your hand
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> Splash some on your face and body
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> Listen—give voice—listen—live
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> ~ Doug Germann
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> *#7*
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> I am a dreamer
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> My dreams start a journey
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> A road sparked by Spirit
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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
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> 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
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> Here the dream begins and so does my travel I travel in good company
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> Keep your Spirit
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> I am dreaming with you
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> ~ Elwin Guild
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> *#8*
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> *breathing*
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> * connecting opening*
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> * breathing
> breathing*
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> *
> *
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> * witnessing
> inviting*
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> * *
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> *
> breathing
> breathing*
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> * letting go
> co-creating*
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> * *
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> * breathing
> breathing*
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> * *
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> * naming emerging*
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> * breathing*
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> ~ Lisa Heft
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> Appreciatively,
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> Karen
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> Karen Sella
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> Coaching: www.luminacoaching.com
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> Consulting: www.integralventures.com
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> Blog: www.lumina.typepad.com
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> Phone: 1.206.780.2998
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> Skype: karensella
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> lumina fr. L. *light, air, opening... ***
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CHRIS CORRIGAN
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