[OSList] New Poet Laureate: The OSLIST Poetry Contest!

[Chris Corrigan via OSList]

Congratulations Carmela. Please send me your address and I'll send you a copy of the book!

Chris 

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CHRIS CORRIGAN
www.chriscorrigan.com


> On Jul 1, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> 
> Carmela Ariza is our new Poet Laureate of the OSLIST. Her poem is #5 below, entitled Moo. Congratulations Carmela!
> 
> Chris Corrigan will you arrange to send Carmela your book The Tao of Open Space? Thanks for offering it as a prize for being selected!
> 
> Thanks to all who composed poems and all who participated (by reading, by voting) in our celebration and contest.
> 
> Below are the poems with their author's names unless they asked to be anonymous.
> 
> May reading, hearing, writing, and speaking poetry enhance our lives in Open Space!
> 
> 1: Tenneson Woolf
> 
> It was obvious there was pain.
> 
> Feelings hurt. Wounds infected.
> 
> Hopes, dwindling relentlessly over the horizon called “not today.”
> 
> It was the story underneath, finally excavated,
> 
> that began to change everything.
> 
> 2: Huck Lin
> 
> 圍圓坐  sit around circle
> 相視識. Look to know each other
> 取紙筆 take pen n paper
> 述題旨 describe your theme
> 選時空 choose a space n time
> 召人議 invite people to discuss
> 蜂採蜜 bees keep busy
> 蝶翩舞 butterfly dances
> 此即時 now is right time
> 隨心聚 gather with your heartl
> 終亦始 end is also start
> 
> 3: Paul Levy
> 
> We are spreading out to the centre,
> Unravelling to the core;
> We are flowing in the stillness,
> Living less being more.
> 
> The space it is opening,
> The circle spirals in;
> The frozen turns to water,
> The frown becomes a grin.
> 
> 4: Rolf Schneidereit
> 
> Wenn ich sein kann
> wer ich bin
> kann ich werden
> wer ich sein kann
> 
> When I can be
> who I am
> I can become
> Who I can be
> 
> 5: Carmela Ariza
> 
> Moo
> 
> We moved
> To overcome
> Frames
> Stale and hardened
> 
> We mooed
> Crossing over
> Grassy fields
> Verdant minds
> 
> We mowed
> Sharp shears
> Breaking through
> Rigid thoughts
> 
> We mooed
> As we moved
> On mowed
> Open spaces
> 
> 6: Huck Lin
> 
> 邀集圓坐相視識 Invite to sit a circle. Look to know each other
> 
> 取紙筆 述題旨Take pen n paper;  describe your theme
> 
> 擇時空 召人議Choose a space n time; call people to meet
> 
> 蜂飛蝶舞此即時Bees keep busy  butterfly dances  now is right time
> 
> 隨心聚散 Gather or leave with your heart
> 終亦始 end is also start
> 
> 7: Huck Lin
> 
> 邀圓環視取紙筆Invite a circle, look around, take a pen and paper
> 
> 選定時空述題旨Choose a time-space, describe your topic
> 
> 蜂蝶飛舞此即時 Bees and butterflies are dancing, now is right time
> 
> 隨心聚散終亦始Gather or leave with your heart, end is also start
> 
> 8:
> 
> We have a right to treat each other well  
> 
> knowing from the depths of authenticity 
> 
> yet mysterious beyond human understanding
> 
> that good things emerge whenever we do.
> 
> What wonder filled constancy!
> 
> 9:
> 
> Life is a subtle affair 
> 
> in which we do well to notice 
> 
> that coupled in the swirl of the dance
> 
> is the real joy of living in togetherness
> 
> amid still feelings of oneness. 
> 
> 10: Alan Halford
> 
> there was an old codger from maine
> who said open those spaces again
> for all those who did
> I lift off me lid
> and welcome all those who just came
> 
> 11: Susan Basterfield
> 
> The space a circle
> 
> Three-dimensional circuit
> 
> Transmitting love-light
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