[OSList] Poetry on the oslist
doug
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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,
> > <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
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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
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> >>
> >> 🎉
> >>
> >> 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>>> 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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