[OSList] OSLIST Poetry Contest!

[Jeff Aitken via OSList]

Read these poems! Love these poems. Vote for these poems! By June 30.

The semiannual OSLIST Limited Form Poetry Contest begins now! We have 11
entries in the contest below.

As a member of oslist you have five votes or "virtual sticky dots" to use.
Please reply TO ME only - NOT the oslist - or write rjeffaitken at gmail.com
with

- the number of the poem.
- the number of dots you are giving that poem.

The contest ends Thursday June 30 at midnight California time. The new Poet
Laureate will be crowned with a virtual laurel of leaves on July 1.

AND (drum roll) the new Laureate will be awarded a copy of Chris Corrigan's
newly beautifully published book The Tao of Open Space. Thanks Chris.

Apologies for any formatting issues. If you sent a poem and it's not here -
let me know asap!

(I offered poems to the celebration but not to the contest. Let our new
Laureate be chosen now! - Jeff)

With a shoutout to our dear departed Ralph Copleman z''l who originated the
Celebration and Contest...

Here are the poems - enjoy!

1:

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:

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 heart


終亦始 end is also start


3:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

The space a circle

Three-dimensional circuit

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