[OSList] Poetry on the oslist

doug ost at footprintsinthewind.com
Wed Feb 3 09:29:05 PST 2021


Jeff--

Wonderfully evocative!

Thank you.

:- Doug.

On 2/3/21 1:15 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList wrote:
> Rockport (a poem)
> 
> 
> When crossing open space
> 
> Use the edges of your eyes.
> 
> The old ones say that golden keys
> 
> Rest under the smallest stones,
> 
> Cared for by guards, who know
> 
> The secrets of shoes.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 9:26 AM doug via OSList 
> <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Paul--
> 
>     I love to see your poetry when it pops up on oslist from time to time.
>     It is evocative for me. Thank you.
> 
>     :- Doug.
> 
>     On 1/30/21 8:43 AM, paul levy via OSList wrote:
>      > Opening Space
>      >
>      > In this place there are only tones.
>      > No bodily function yet movement
>      >  From thought that flexes
>      > Non-existent muscles.
>      >
>      > There are no nouns, only verb
>      > Upon verb, Like fields and valleys,
>      > The language spoken by
>      > The dead, who have cast off all nouns
>      > Is a landscape uttered here.
>      >
>      > There are harmonics and rising pitch
>      > That discords as pain, and accords
>      > As love.
>      >
>      > In this place there is only tone.
>      > There is communion in notes with a
>      > Melody of Meaning and it is possible
>      > To touch another with the intention
>      > Of a healing song.
>      >
>      > Into this place, I unfold my wings of sound-borne light.
>      >
>      >
>      > On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, 11:48 Romy Shovelton via OSList,
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>      > wrote:
>      >
>      >     Absolutely LOVING this Open Space poetry !!  Thanks everyone…..
>      >
>      >     I can see a new way to being the Opening Circle !!  😀
>      >
>      >     Romy
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >>     On 30 Jan 2021, at 02:54, lucia pavia Ticzon via OSList
>      >>     <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
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>      >>     <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
>     <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >>     🎉
>      >>
>      >>     Xcept if you get this far it’s sometimes trouble. Or
>      >>
>      >>     Yehey! Now i / we all can
>      >>     Z zzzzz.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>     Love’t Thanks be!
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>     On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 2:31 AM Jeff Aitken via OSList
>      >>     <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
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>      >>     <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
>     <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>> wrote:
>      >>
>      >>         Hi folks. The warm invite to check the oslist archives
>     led me
>      >>         on a good journey last night. Some of the jewels I found
>     were
>      >>         poems, from the days of the "poetry celebration and contest"
>      >>         that lived here for a long while.
>      >>
>      >>         Poems of open space! With a convenor naming a poetic
>     "form" to
>      >>         follow for that round of celebration.
>      >>
>      >>         Here is one, in the form of three stanzas of haiku.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>         huge pens and newsprint
>      >>
>      >>         like twigs and leaves on the floor:
>      >>
>      >>         fall forest clearing.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>         wall like wide canvas
>      >>
>      >>         bare, primed, awaiting fresh strokes
>      >>
>      >>         painted by our hearts.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>         circle of welcome,
>      >>
>      >>         like setting an old table
>      >>
>      >>         for neighbors and friends.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>         Here is one in a fun form using an alphabet. It's not about
>      >>         open space, but is about writing a poem, kinda. (Without
>      >>         launching a new Celebration formally, i invite you to
>     try it...)
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>         And I
>      >>         Believe you too
>      >>         Can
>      >>         Do a poem, and
>      >>         Even
>      >>         Fairly
>      >>         Gracefully – I
>      >>         Have seen
>      >>         Innovative
>      >>         Juxtapositions
>      >>         Kindly
>      >>         Line up in
>      >>         Many
>      >>         New and
>      >>         Original
>      >>         Poems - it’s
>      >>         Quite
>      >>         Reasonable to get
>      >>         So many words
>      >>         To line
>      >>         Up
>      >>         Very
>      >>         Willingly
>      >>         Xcept if you get this far it’s sometimes trouble.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
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