[OSList] Announcing the new OSLIST Poet Laureate

[Griet Hellinckx]

:-)
a smorgasbordfrom around the globe:
"proficiat" (dutch) & "herzlichen glückwunsch" (german)
looking forward to reading more...
griet

Am 21.02.2012 13:44, schrieb Agneta Setterwall:
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> Tally-ho! Tally-Ho!!!
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> Yes I will! Yes I do
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> catch what's thrown
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> in the air!
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> Poetry! Set it free!
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> Hide and seek...
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> ...you and me!
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> Hints of laughter
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> or despair...
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> Hums of twilight,
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> tracks and flair...
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> Hearts and tongues
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> and brains and lungs
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> - now let it out!
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> Let body's beat
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> sing indiscrete!
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> Come soulish tone!
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> Or foolish tone!
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> A playful plea
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> for dishful meal:
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> A smorgasbord
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> around our globe!
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> Imagine that!
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> Expand our now!
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> And brew your stew
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> of mads and glads,
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> of wit and fun,
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> and all that
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> in-between...
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> your proud and humble new Poet Laureate Agneta
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> Lisa Heft skrev 2012-02-21 02.04:
>> I am pleased to announce the new OSLIST Poet Laureate...
>> Agneta Setterwall !!!
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>> As Poet Laureate she will be holding space on OSLIST for poetry about 
>> and inspired by Open Space over the next six months.
>>
>> Please join me in welcoming Agneta !
>>
>> Below is her poem.
>> And below that is a little history of the OSLIST Restricted Form 
>> Poetry Contest and a list of our past Poet Laureates. A deep bow to 
>> you all, and to poetry - Lisa
>>
>> ______________________
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>> An open space?
>> I hesitate
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>> A call somewhere?
>> I hesitate
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>> An open door?
>> I hesitate
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>> And people too?!
>> I hesitate!
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>> Supposed to speak?
>> I hesitate!!
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>> Tell what I need...
>> I hesitate...
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>> Tell what I want?
>> I hesitate!
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>> And they all hear...
>> I doubt they do!
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>> They will not care!
>> I´m sure, I´m sure...
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>> And... there they come!
>> Oh my! They do!
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>> And now we talk!
>> We do! We do!!!
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>> ...they listen too...
>> ...and so do I...
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>> ...and what will come...?
>> Oh my! Oh my!!!
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>>
>> -- Agneta Setterwall (Uppsala, Sweden)
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>> ______________________
>>
>> History of the OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest
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>> "For all those who might be curious, the OSLIST Biannual Restricted 
>> Form Poetry Contest started in the spring of 2000 when I issued the 
>> challenge to the list.  [The late great] Ralph Copleman actually 
>> began the whole thing with a contest in the fall of 1999 (which I 
>> won) and so he is the "Poetry King" for all time.  I just claimed the 
>> "Poet Laureate" title in an effort to have some fun.  It was 
>> something of a one martini idea, and I was out of gin at the time..."
>>
>> 'Restricted form' means some described form or boundary for the poem 
>> - as in this recent Poetry Contest where you were invited to create 
>> poems about or inspired by Open Space and breathing, trusting the 
>> unknown, and emergence.
>>
>> ______________________
>>
>> Our Past OSLIST Poet Laureates
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>> Ralph Copleman 1999
>> Chris Corrigan 1999
>> Chris Weaver 2000
>> Jeff Aitken 2000
>> Florian Fischer 2001
>> Laurel Doersam 2002
>> Audrey Coward 2002
>> Joelle Everett 2003
>> Florian Fischer 2003
>> Joelle Everett 2004
>> Lisa Heft 2006
>> Teresa Pokasony 2006
>> Karen Sella 2007
>> Jeff Aitken 2008
>> Anne Hiha 2008
>> Esther Ewing 2009
>> Chris Corrigan 2010
>> ...and now... Agneta Setterwall 2012
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>> ______________________
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