[OSList] OSLIST Poetry Contest!

[Jeff Aitken via OSList]

WAIT please - I'm going to fix the formatting! And send this again.

Jeff
On Jun 23, 2016 10:17 AM, "Jeff Aitken" <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com> wrote:

> Read these poems! Love these poems. Vote for these poems! By June 30.
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> The semiannual OSLIST Limited Form Poetry Contest begins now! We have 11
> entries in the contest below.
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> 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
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> - the number of the poem.
> - the number of dots you are giving that poem.
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> 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.
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> 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...
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> Here are the poems - enjoy!
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> 1:
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> It was obvious there was pain.
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> Feelings hurt. Wounds infected.
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> Hopes, dwindling relentlessly over the horizon called “not today.”
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> It was the story underneath, finally excavated,
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> that began to change everything.
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> 2:
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> 圍圓坐  sit around circle
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> 相視識. Look to know each other
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> 取紙筆 take pen n paper
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> 述題旨 describe your theme
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> 選時空 choose a space n time
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> 召人議 invite people to discuss
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> 蜂採蜜 bees keep busy
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> 蝶翩舞 butterfly dances
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> 此即時 now is right time
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> 隨心聚 gather with your heart
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> 終亦始 end is also start
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> 3:
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> We are spreading out to the centre,
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> Unravelling to the core;
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> We are flowing in the stillness,
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> Living less being more.
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> The space it is opening,
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> The circle spirals in;
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> The frozen turns to water,
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> The frown becomes a grin.
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> 4:
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> Wenn ich sein kann
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> wer ich bin
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> kann ich werden
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> wer ich sein kann
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> When I can be
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> who I am
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> I can become
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> Who I can be
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> 5:
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> Moo
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> We moved
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> To overcome
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> Frames
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> Stale and hardened
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> We mooed
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> Crossing over
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> Grassy fields
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> Verdant minds
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> We mowed
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> Sharp shears
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> Breaking through
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> Rigid thoughts
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> We mooed
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> As we moved
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> On mowed
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> Open spaces
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> 6:
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> 邀集圓坐相視識 Invite to sit a circle. Look to know each other
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> 取紙筆 述題旨Take pen n paper;  describe your theme
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> 擇時空 召人議Choose a space n time; call people to meet
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> 蜂飛蝶舞此即時Bees keep busy  butterfly dances  now is right time
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> 隨心聚散 Gather or leave with your heart
> 終亦始 end is also start
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> 7:
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> 邀圓環視取紙筆Invite a circle, look around, take a pen and paper
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> 選定時空述題旨Choose a time-space, describe your topic
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> 蜂蝶飛舞此即時 Bees and butterflies are dancing, now is right time
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> 隨心聚散終亦始Gather or leave with your heart, end is also start
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> 8:
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> We have a right to treat each other well
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> knowing from the depths of authenticity
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> yet mysterious beyond human understanding
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> that good things emerge whenever we do.
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> What wonder filled constancy!
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> 9:
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> Life is a subtle affair
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> in which we do well to notice
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> that coupled in the swirl of the dance
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> is the real joy of living in togetherness
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> amid still feelings of oneness.
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> 10:
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> there was an old codger from maine
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> who said open those spaces again
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> for all those who did
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> I lift off me lid
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> and welcome all those who just came
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> 11:
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> The space a circle
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> Three-dimensional circuit
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> Transmitting love-light
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