[OSList] Poetry on the oslist

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Sat Jan 30 02:58:37 PST 2021


Thanks Jeff!

Elwin and Joan via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>, 30 Oca 2021
Cmt, 09:31 tarihinde şunu yazdı:

> Brilliant Jeff, absolutely brilliant!
>
> You get the prize.
>
> Thank you... I needed that.
>
> eg
>
> 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
>
> Xperience if
>
> You so
>
> deZire.
>
>
>
> 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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