[OSList] the conversational nature of reality - and POETRY!

[Jonathan Coe]

and thanks to both for putting poetry and David Whyte back in the list - and reminding me that I need to re-invigorate the OSList Poet Laureate process!
 
Let's get going again?  Are you up for putting some poems in?!
 
I hope so! 
 
so here is my previous email and with new dates:
 
 I now re-re-open the OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest! 

Whoever feels so inspired - I invite you to create some original poetry with two aspects:


should be about Open Space Technologyand 

evocative of the Emptiness/Awareness/Oneness/Space/Consciousness within which all apparent activity arises - including of course OST practices, entries for poetry competitions and emails inviting entries for poetry competitions....
I hope that is as specific and as vague an invitation as suits your poetic pens. 

I especially encourage entries from anyone who thinks they are somehow separate from the conversation of poetry... 
  
 Send your poetry directly to me at coej66 at hotmail.com before midnight (in whatever time zone you live) on Sunday, July 20th.

I will collect them and then show them back to you so you may indicate your preferences, in awareness that all contributors have already contributed something of themselves, and something reflective of us all also. 

Counted preferences will determine who the new Poet Laureate of the OSLIST or, new title, the Poet Laureate of Open Space, will be - someone who will hold the  space for poetry by sharing and / or inviting poetry on the list for the next six months. 

A role I have not myself fulfilled very well, for which I apologise. A number of poems are online at http://poetryofopenspace.blogspot.co.uk/. Whoever takes the role is offered this space to move forward with, or to leave as it is. 

All  OSLIST members, including past Poet Laureates, are invited to participate. If you write your poem in your own language which may not be English, please do add a translation in English.

All contributions are welcomed. All are invited to risk again the  "bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat" - not an invitation to despair or inaction, but to bold and vulnerable activity. This line is from the poem below, from the fabulous David Whyte, with whom I recently spent a day.

Bon courage mes amis!

Jonathan 


Self Portrait     It doesn't interest me if there is one God
        or many gods.
        I want to know if you belong or feel
        abandoned.
        If you know despair or can see it in others.
        I want to know 
        if you are prepared to live in the world
        with its harsh need
        to change you. If you can look back
        with firm eyes
        saying this is where I stand. I want to know
        if you know 
        how to melt into that fierce heat of living
        falling toward
        the center of your longing. I want to know
        if you are willing
        to live, day by day, with the consequence of love
        and the bitter
        unwanted passion of your sure defeat.
    I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even
        the gods speak of God. 



      -- David Whyte



 

 
From: phelim at mac.com
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:14:52 +0100
To: oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
Subject: Re: [OSList] the conversational nature of reality

Hi Michael
Matilda and I had a great journey doing a number of David's seminars and his Salon. Often using walking as a way of working on questions. His work is great. In his last collection there's a poem about an aerialist which he wrote after meeting Matilda! 

Best 
Phelim X 
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