[OSList] Poetry on the oslist

[Elwin and Joan]

 Brilliant Jeff, absolutely brilliant!
You get the prize.
Thank you... I needed that.
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    On Friday, January 29, 2021, 02:52:18 PM EST, Jeff Aitken via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:  
 
 
An open space

By internet

Can serve

During

Emergencies

Fostering

Good conversations

Held in surprising

Intimacy

Just because our

Kind faces

Linger at the screen

Making that

Nearby feeling.

Optimally a

Platform like

Qiqo is a

Resource

Suited

To

Underpin a

Very

Welcoming

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On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 10:12 AM Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com> 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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