[OSList] Poetry on the oslist

[doug]

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 <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
>>     <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
>>     <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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