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dear OSLIST !
<p>now let me strike up the cymbels for to converge
<br><b>the rich harvest of 27 poems</b> we´ve got
<br>initiated under the motto
<br>"<b>five objects in the space of my sight</b>"
<p>every text has a number as if it had come in.
<br>i edit it under the name of the authors
<br>because every text had been sent under
<br>the name of its author to the list, so we knew
<br>already from whom it is, and we knew us together
<br>to be familiar instead of formal.
<p>without asking her
<br>i take aine corrigans insight as part of the contest to start with.
<br>hi, aine, please be so kind to agree.
<br>like laurel agreed when i asked her to give
<br>a special part of her letter as poetry into the contest.
<p><b>now, every one of you all there</b>
<br><b>has five (5) virtual sticky dots to spend.</b>
<br>put the five dots to the poem or the poems
<br>which are telling you "it´s me to be dotted"
<p>the author of the poem which will get most of the dots
<br>will be named as the next oslist poet laureate.
<br>that is mainly including the honour to open space and to hold space
<br>for the next following semiannual oslist poetry contest.
<br>beside that he or she will get a little gift .....
<p>and let me say, the contest, as i understand it, is not to
<br>elect or to decide about best of poetry, but is to encourage
<br>everybody of us to give space and voice to the poetic aspect
in everyday life
<br>and in our work. as it had been established from our friend ralph copleman.
<p>please let me know up to <b>the 2nd of february</b>
<br>how you have spent your 5 dots
<br>to what numbers of the poems.
<br>for example:
<br>#.. / 2, #.. / 2, #.. / 1
<br>please send it to me:
<br><b>florianfischer@ff-wey.com</b>
<p>thank you authors for taking part
<br>thank you all for listening
<br>thank you all for joining now in convergence.
<br>florian fischer
<p>----------------------------------------------
<br>#1
<br>aine corrigan
<br>5 words in-sight:
<p>"Thank you space, for everything"
<br>------------------------------------------------
<br>#2
<br>jeff aitken
<p>"(W)e have moved from product- and service-driven stages of the economy
to
<br>an era that is driven by staging and co-creating customer experiences..."
<br>-- Illuminating the Blind Spot: Leadership in the Context of Emerging
<br>Worlds (Arthur, Senge, et al, 2000)
<br>
<p>Like a lily it flowers from base to wide mouth,
<br>its sharp edges softened for contact with lips:
<br>this glass is a giver of sustenance.
<p>Five experiences surround my desk
<br>waiting calmly in their guise as things.
<br>let us gently lift their veils:
<p>Comfort is dressed as a black desk lamp.
<br>safety rests easy, disguised as a map.
<br>pleasure awaits its unfoldment as apple.
<p>But here is the most transparent being:
<br>this old white telephone is love.
<br>look! it is not always love that flows thru,
<p>But that it is made is love. to lift this slim handle
<br>and feel the softening heart of my father,
<br>what else can it be?
<p>And now all five call out to me:
<br>let us be a love economy.
<p>----------------------------------------------------
<p>#3
<br>jeff aitken
<p>lamp apple phone map glass
<br>glass map apple phone lamp
<br>apple phone lamp glass map
<br>map lamp glass apple phone
<br>phone glass map lamp apple
<p>-----------------------------------------------------
<p>#4
<br>jeff aitken
<p>apple apple lamp lamp
<br>map apple lamp lamp
<br>apple apple glass glass phone
<p>apple apple glass glass
<br>lamp apple map map
<br>apple glass map lamp map phone
<p>--
<p>glass glass
<br>glass glass
<br>glass glass glass
<br>glass glass
<br>phone map apple
<br> lamp
<br>phone map apple
<br> lamp
<p>glass glass
<br>glass glass
<br>glass glass glass
<br>glass phone
<br>map lamp apple
<br>glass
<br>glass glass phone
<p>---------------------------------------------------
<p>#5
<br>cris corrigan
<p>WHAT IS ON THE TABLE
<p>A vase that Vivienne left us
<br>Stuffed with dried lavender from the summer
<p>A wine bottle, green with emptiness
<br>Its spirit having been drained
<p>A half empty tea cup
<br>Whose contents have filled me with insomnia
<p>And delirious contemplation
<br>Of a school of rice cake crumbs
<p>That have spread across the stained pine
<br>Like a creeping army of sadness
<p>In search of their temporary state of communion
<br>Mourning their rediscovered agency
<p>----------------------------------------------------
<p>#6
<br>harrison owen
<br>
<p>What's on the Desk?
<br>Not a lot.
<br>A pen for writing I haven't done.
<br>Spectacles for tired eyes.
<br>A coffee cup still hot.
<br>And in the back
<br>With blinking green eyes
<br>My network router
<br>Connecting
<br>To all the world.
<br>What's on the desk?
<br>You.
<p>-----------------------------------------------------
<p>#7
<br>ralph copleman
<p>poem about everything
<p>i
<br>like
<br>this
<br>a
<br>lot
<p>------------------------------------------------------
<p>#8
<br>ralph copleman
<p>The Purpose of Butterflies
<p>It1s rumored
<br>west winds begin with
<br>a single thought from you, showy Lepido,
<br>fluttering still pale air,
<br>stirring the atmosphere1s slightest doubts
<br>into creases, notions, rising torments
<br>blowing fulvous skies over the Pacific
<br>and reaching my sandy shores in soaking torrents.
<p>Meadows1 breathy pastels,
<br>serrated stripings, lustrous primary slashes,
<br>rainbow glow, sky fire1s full flush.
<br>Needlework on a timeless, frameless canvas,
<p>To look that good,
<br>for exclusive rights to the most fruitful coalescence,
<br>to unfold heaven1s radiant robes
<br>you will never glimpse,
<br>you sifted genes through brightening strainers,
<br>twinging at the level of chromosomes
<br>for just the right hues,
<br>coding whom to attract, what to mimic
<br>to make a decent living,
<br>You could have gone for simple stealth,
<br>or murder-loving camouflage,
<br>You chose
<br>to be seen.
<p>------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#9
<br>winston kinch
<p>Hmmm... lets see... five things... around me on my desk...
<br>
<p>a buzzard pinion waiting
<br>in a bamboo cup
<br>for the gentle breath of love
<br>to lift it up
<p>to soar with a bronze eagle
<br>wave a magic wand
<br>move us past the rage and pain
<br>that's swept the land
<p>of course Pooh is here as well
<br>talking stick on lap
<br>always opening more space...
<br>for you? mayhap!
<p>-----------------------------------------------------------
<p>#10
<br>esther ewing
<br>
<p>Five things on my desk?
<p>Coffee, steaming,
<br>Waking me to my blessings
<br>Perking me up...
<p>Pen, pointed,
<br>Poised for perception,
<br>Or banality...
<p>Camera, full of good times
<br>Captured but fleeting
<br>Family and friends...
<p>Computer, open to email,
<br>A window to good friends and
<br>Ideas...
<p>My heart, engaged and en-spirited,
<br>Within and among and
<br>On my sleeve,
<br>Open and spacious.
<p>-------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#11
<br>michael herman
<p>suite 1105
<p>LAPTOP sits atop old cardboard box,
<br>in a trick i learned at lisa heft's house.
<br>keyboard, mouse, printer
<br>and all of the internet
<br>dangling...
<p>with my TEACHERS ever-present,
<br>wide awake and holding all beings,
<br>watching me here from photos,
<br>a mosaic of compassion
<br>tacked on my wall...
<p>over my breakfast BOWL now empty,
<br>save for the spoon glued to its bottom
<br>by oatmeal and dried fruit.
<br>it invites a stretch down the hall,
<br>back to the kitchen...
<p>as the big brick box of the SCHOOL
<br>booms with amplified administrative authority.
<br>it blankets the neighborhood but talks over the heads
<br>of the children screaming and laughing
<br>on the playground...
<p>and the clouds steaming ever-eastward,
<br>across the great LAKE, michigan
<br>which is big enough to be seen from space
<br>but is resting now in pieces,
<br>between tall buildings...
<p>on my desk.
<p>-----------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#12
<br>reinhard kuchenmueller
<p>der fischer ist ein florian,
<br>zieht wie die maus die dichter an.
<br>ein herz aus samt, auf das mein kater
<br>sein koepfchen legt.
<br>wuerd wie im maerchen fische fangen,
<br>mit eurozeichen auf den wangen,
<br>ganz unbewegt.
<p>or something similar in english:
<p>the fisherman is florian,
<br>attracting poets like the mouse.
<br>a heart of velvet, where my cat
<br>can rest it's head.
<br>he would go fishing funny fishes,
<br>with euro-signs, alive or dead,
<br>in fairy tales instead.
<p>-------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#13
<br>jeff aitken
<p>And it came to pass that chaos ruled the land.
<br>and fear arose, the sounds of shallow cries,
<br>as people nailed boards across their doors,
<br>and gathered food, and slept by candlelight.
<p>and in despair the leaders huddled close,
<br>and broadcast weary speeches from someplace.
<br>but then a child among us found a book
<br>and let a smile light her shadowed face.
<p>she took two days to walk the quiet streets
<br>and fill a cardboard box with items five,
<br>as fine as gold they were, yet light and cheap;
<br>she left her piggy bank inside the store.
<p>come out, she called, at sunrise. come and see!
<br>and slowly people gathered in the square.
<br>come look, she cried. come close; they're in the box.
<br>all that we need to lift our souls is there.
<p>by now, dear list, you know what she had found.
<br>let's name them one by one together, friends.
<br>the simple tools we use to do our work
<br>then brought the land together once again:
<p>a box of
<br>a roll of
<br>a pad of
<br>a ream of
<br>a pair of
<p>---------------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#14
<br>dan chay
<p>Positive Aspects of Negative Space
<p>>From the black morning DARKNESS of the window
<br>our grey CAT mews back at me
<br>just beyond my own flat dazed REFLECTION
<br>on the other side of my glowing MONITOR
<br>past this becoming of black pixels on
<p>white OPEN SPACE
<br>poem?
<p>-------------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#15
<br>audrey coward
<p>gifts
<p>My hand holds my favorite PEN
<br> space opens space closes
<br> Memories reawaken
<br> My pen is a gift from my only child
<br> space closes space opens
<br> My eyes enjoy the sight of a SCULPTURE
<br> mother and son
<br> holding each other in love
<br> carefully bought for me
<br> he was thirteen
<br> Memories reawaken
<br> space opens space closes
<br> I touch my "STAR SHAPED BOX"
<br> A gift from a special friend
<br> space closes space opens
<br> My mouse is a gift from my only child
<br> space closes space opens
<br> My COMPUTER connects me to the gift of you
<br> My soul is soothed
<br> space opens...
<p>-------------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#16
<br>alan stewart
<br>
<p>When I raise my sights
<br>I see a place where creatures of all descriptions
<br>come to meet with their mates, have a dip,
<br>take a long cool draft, preen in the sun,
<br>then whirr off into the blue.
<p>A place in which I noticed with new eyes
<br>the wonder of flight
<br>which brings feathered friends and bumblebees daily to
<br>the circle of their birdbath.
<p>Higher in my sights are lanky limbed eucalypts
<br>Swaying in the breeze like overgrown parsley;
<br>ever survivors of great bushfires,
<br>reminding me that I am in Australia
<br>or could this be California?
<p>Whichever, I'm in the right space right now.
<p>Lowering my eyes I confront a source of
<br>delight, terror, connection, surprise.
<br>Not ever knowing what today will bring
<br>with its messages from fellow travellers
<br>on our precious little planet.
<br>Yet ever ready to click send/rec -
<br>sometimes with great trepidation -
<br>to reveal whatever happens
<br>to be lurking behind the screensaver.
<p>And to respond or to initiate in time.
<p>Always there, not always hot wired
<br>(the law of two ears applies)
<br>is the wondrous brainchild of
<br>Signor Marconi.
<br>I remember when two or more playmates
<br>tuned in together, in rapture to 'Top of the Pops.'
<br>Now it’s just it and me, as I do
<br>my sometimes lonely, anxious rearranging.
<br>Constant companion in the wee hours,
<br>with its voices of affirmation.
<p>And catching my musing eye
<br>is a reminder
<br>of how from time immemorial
<br>we humans have renewed things the way they were
<br>by using energy wisely, softly,
<br>with no reliance on non renewables.
<br>Nature's abundant warmth and wind
<br>drying the washing on the line.
<p>I acknowledge the gift of the invitation
<br>to notice and reflect on these things.
<br>And now these musings are over.
<p>---------------------------------------------------------
<p>#18
<br>judi richardson
<p> Learning -- a movement from moment to moment?
<br> This moment an everyday desk holds learning.
<br> A rock sits strong in its vulnerability,
<br> A ring of keys reminding — the key is the same,
<br> regardless of the situation,
<br> A picture of a bridge -- crossing from effort to active stillness,
<br> A calendar -- subtle in its illusion of accountability.
<br> Glancing quickly at the window,
<br> A snow encased tree branch nods up and down in the wind
<br> affirming the stark reality of nothing.
<br> What is less than nothing?
<p>------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#19
<br>peggy holman
<br>
<p>I look up in time to see a hummingbird fly by (on a winter day!)
<br>My telephone calls my name (not humming)
<br>The printer whines, churning out the page I just requested.
<br>A rose, painted on silk, memories of my Russian friend
<br>greets me as I look up again.
<br>My partner quietly working alone beside me completes the picture.
<br>Sights, sounds, smells of work, love, play surround my desk
<br>Keeping the space open for whoever comes, whatever happens.
<p>-----------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#20
<br>chrsitine whitney sanchez
<br>
<br>
<p>Some Blessings of Open Space
<br>Show Up in My Work Space:
<br>Smile, Focus, Gift, Connection, Trust
<br>
<p>Dalai Lama
<br>Ocean of Compassion
<br>standing in my desert
<br>bowing his smile.
<p>Mountain Lion Mama
<br>Princess of Power
<br>drinking from the stream
<br>reflecting her focus.
<p>Calendar Wombat
<br>Sturdy Little Fellow
<br>winking his containment.
<br>sharing Aussie Alan’s gift.
<p>Rainbow of Floppies
<br>Creativity Capturers
<br>Waiting for expression
<br>Serving the connection.
<p>Apache Creation Story
<br>Blue Road Messenger
<br>Beaming Thunder Beings
<br>Telling me to trust.
<p>------------------------------------------------------
<p>#21
<br>lisa heft
<p>Five Things At My Desk, January 14th, 2001
<p>A shell that looks like a butterfly.
<br>My mother used to collect them
<br> and place them on the windowsills
<br>And every time she would pass them
<br> she would tap them lightly and
<br> set them to fluttering...
<p>Ethel, my cat.
<br>She sits by my side when I am at my desk.
<br>She is my administrative assistant,
<br> periodically filing papers onto the floor.
<br>I lean over to put my face in her fur.
<p>An old photo of Rodney Heft holding the baby Lisa.
<br>She is in a fluffy dress and is sucking on a finger.
<br>She looks hesitant and shy.
<br>My, how she's grown.
<br>Still loves her daddy.
<p>An illustration of three horses.
<br>Colored pencils on yellow grid paper.
<br>An early Lisa Heft,
<br> drawn by the daughter at her father's drafting table.
<p>A photo of Laurel, Rick and I.
<br>We are in their red kitchen
<br>Warm and relaxed and showing the beautiful plates of food
<br> Nuran has cooked for us.
<br>Warm food, warm friendship.
<p>Family surrounds me.
<p>---------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#22
<br>toke paludan møller
<p>Do I dare - do we ?
<p>Do we dare
<br>Bring our hearts to the center
<p>To the center of our own lives
<br>To where we live ?
<br>To how we work ?
<br>To where we love ?
<br>To how we learn ?
<p>To simply see the world from real me ?
<p>Oh what could life be ?
<br>For me and we
<p>If courage we found
<br>To break new groundS
<p>Do I dare ?
<p>-------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#23
<br>joelle lyons everett
<p>Waking Up
<p>Gray winter sky
<br>dark, heavy and silent.
<br>Hot black coffee warming
<br>my body as I sit with the day.
<br>Handful of crow feathers, my token
<br>for the raucous voice of truth and magic.
<br>Your fiery voice, warming the blue-grey screen
<br>with passion, compassion, the pleasure of shared laughter.
<br>Poems, a trickle then a growing stream,
<br>melt the silence of this winter's day.
<p>-------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#24
<br>david adams
<p>Seen and Unseen
<p>Old stones shaped by uncountable tides adorn my desk,
<br>silver inkpot (shining gift of love),
<br>ceramic piglet fashioned by once tiny hands
<br>(still surprised by its existance),
<br>wooden stand for open books, and -
<br>this Gateway through which I connect
<br>with an unseen universe
<p>Seen things, savoured in affection and in daily use,
<br>enlisted as unwitting architects of desk doings and desk space,
<br>servants of desk imaginings
<p>Unseen, the space between is active, attentive, unknowing -
<br>supplying an eternity of forgiveness
<p>An opportunity for angels
<p>--------------------------------------------------------------
<p>#25
<br>jim metcalf
<p>Creative Space
<p>Silence holds the open space
<br>In tension. Striving with its
<br>Own being, creative space
<br>Changes without changing as
<br>Silence grows and tension grows
<br>Until a word is spoken:
<br>Open space. Creative Space.
<p>Tension holds space open now -
<br>Talking tenses listening now.
<br>Will listeners take two feet
<br>And walk, or talkers? The hearts
<br>Are trembling to know what they
<br>Themselves will do. Tension grows.
<br>Open Space, Creative Space.
<p>Talking resolves with listening
<br>As space opens, hearts open.
<br>Listeners caring for talkers,
<br>Talkers for listeners, balance
<br>The caring of a heart for
<br>Another , for self, until
<br>Space opens creatively.
<p>-----------------------------------------------------------
<p>#26
<br>laurel doersam
<p>the space in my sight glancing into a mirror
<p>I've turned into a Rennaissance painting!
<br>Picture this:
<br>an extra thirty pounds adorns my thighs and torso,
<br>my eyes are Mona Lisa-esque
<br>(read that "no lashes or brows")
<br>the only thing missing is the long, flowing tresses.
<br>I do, however, have a very short,
<br>snappy wig interwoven with a passle of white hairs -
<br>it's quite a good rug, but ITCHY. I'm still quite startled
<br>every time I inadvertently glance into a mirror.
<p>-----------------------------------------------------------
<p>#27
<br>julie smith
<br>
<p>peace lily inhales
<br>young eagle considers flight
<br>Creation watches
<p>wizard nods his head
<br>soft green tendrils rise from dust
<br>all life tugs forward
<p>painted moon peers down
<br>wind quiets --- to a whisper
<br>One silently waits
<p>glass dragonfly ? soars?
<br>paradox of captured flight
<br>flying yet not free
<p>flying snowman ? smiles?
<br>pasted glee is misery?
<br>confusion rising
<p>II
<br>pale pink dawn arrives
<br>snow tipped branches greeting sky
<br>One wonders, waiting
<p>dancing dust motes glide
<br>wide open space, half-closed eyes
<br>unbound life, alive!
<p>steady heart beating
<br>One door opens, inviting ---
<br>ah --- missed mystery!
<p>top spins round and round
<br>swirling choices make their rounds
<br>--- stillness beckons now ---
<p>steady heart beating
<br>One door opens, inviting ---
<br>Unbound Life, Alive!
<p>Wide Open Spaces!
<br>Bursting Life, Unknown Places!
<br>All Ways Expanding!
<p>pale pink dawn departs
<br>snow tipped branches deeply sigh
<br>One pleased, beaming
<br>
<p>III
<p>flying snowman ? Smiles!
<br>pasted glee is One with me ---
<br>gleaming Joy growing
<p>glass dragonfly ? Soars!
<br>iridescent wings Glowing
<br>colored Light dancing
<p>Wizened painted moon
<br>cherished Patient silent friend
<br>now content, Smiling
<p>wizard Stretching wide
<br>Grasping lighting bolt from sky
<br>all Life bows, grinning
<p> peace lily exhales
<br>all the world considers flight
<br>Creation watches
<p>-------------------------------------------------------
<p>florian fischer
<p>five capital letters in my sight
<p>TH' END
<br>
<br>
<p>florian fischer
<br>begleitung im wandel
<br>muenchener 6
<br>10779 berlin
<br>fon 0049.30. 2116752
<br>fax 0049.30. 2115943
<br>florianfischer@ff-wey.com
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