[OSList] Poetry on the oslist
Jeff Aitken
r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 11:45:34 PST 2021
Americausa the
Beautiful
Couldn't
Deftly
Embrace
Fresh
Government
Harnessing
Inspiration
Just as a
Killer app
Made
Numerous
Oppositions
Plain.
Qoax
Rekindled
Severe
Trials
Unwrapping
Various
Wooly
X-factors of the
Young country's
Zeitgeist.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021, 9:29 AM doug via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
wrote:
> 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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> > <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> > <mailto:oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>>>
> > > 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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