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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;"><pre style="white-space: normal;"><font style="" class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt;">Here are the poems! <br><br>Take some time to enjoy and celebrate the poetry of our colleagues! <br>Thanks to everyone who sent a poem. <br>The authors' names have been hidden because of the Contest.<br><br>The Contest works like this: <br></span></font></pre></span><ul><li><font style="" class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt;">We use the "dot-voting" method. <br></span></font></li><li><font style="" class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt;">As a member of OSLIST you have 5 virtual sticky dots to vote for poems below. <br></span></font></li><li><font style="" class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt;">Choose how many of your 5 dots to give to each poem (the poem's number is above the poem) and <br></span></font></li><li><font style="" class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt;">SEND YOUR VOTES TO ME ONLY, NOT TO THE OSLIST:</span></font></li></ul><font class="Apple-style-span" style="" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;"></span><blockquote><blockquote><font style="" class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt;">anne_a_hiha@hotmail.com</span></font><br></blockquote><font style="" class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></font></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;"><pre style="white-space: normal;"><font style="" class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>The <b>deadline</b> for sending your sticky dots is <b>11.59pm New Zealand time, Monday, 24 August 2009</b>.<br><br>I will measure the dot mountains and announce the new Poet Laureate, and send the poems out again with the authors' names.<br><br>Have fun, and enjoy these wonderful poems.<br><br>If the above seems vaguely familiar, yes it is, I thank Jeff Aitken for his clear and succinct invitation from the 2008 contest.<br><br>Regards<br><br>Anne<br><br><br><b>Poem 1.<br><br></b>I invite you to share a dream of mine<br>and join me at WOSonOS 2009<br>As we share our learning in every way<br>in a beautiful city called Taipei.<br><br>We will stretch and learn and run around the place<br>as we explore and share in Open Space.<br>‘Li hau ba’ the Host Team will say to us<br>(that’s ‘Hello’ in Taiwanese to the rest of us)<br><br>‘Ni hau’ we’ll reply as we’ll learn to say<br>(that’s ‘Hello’ also in a Taiwanese way).<br>We’ll announce our topics without reservations,<br>co-creating an agenda of great conversations.<br><br>Any issue or topic you are passionate about - <br>you’ll find others who care, without a doubt.<br>We’ll share some thoughts and pose some questions<br>as we butterfly and bumblebee between the sessions.<br><br>The Law of Two Feet will take us ‘round the place,<br>including Global Village Marketplace<br>and Silent Auction so we can buy<br>each others’ pretty things and I’ll tell you why:<br><br>Each year we raise funds in currency and coin as<br>we share our resources so others can join us.<br>So pack along something from village or city<br>with a few extra dollars to buy something pretty.<br><br>Each day we will re-open space and have fun,<br>each night we’ll celebrate and enjoy Taiwan.<br>We’ll take notes as we go through our dynamic meetings<br>to co-create our own Book of Proceedings.<br><br>We’ll share about culture and get inspiration<br>exploring ideas about facilitation.<br>We’ll learn and grow and our skills will increase<br>in the use of this method for practicing peace,<br><br>for meetings and forums, idea creation,<br>strategy, planning, conflict transformation,<br>in businesses, governments and communities -<br>to explore complex issues and discover opportunities.<br><br>So if you think ‘Could I come too? How?’<br>Say it out loud and make a vow.<br>Gather your resources - soon you’ll say ‘Wow!’<br>Join us in Taiwan: register now! <br><br><br><b>Poem 2.<br><br></b>it is windy each day inside open space<br>the wild wild west of this me-we place<br>with hearts breaking open to all that can be<br>and minds sparking new thoughts and possibility<br><br>we are blowing my mind as i sit on my bum<br>humming drum a drum drum, and my heartbeat goes yum<br>and attention shifts outward forming circular sums<br>and trust bends back blindingly, following meaningful crumbs<br><br>i am clear that the path you and i bow to is near<br>in fact we're right on it right now and right here<br>playfully working and working at play<br>opening to each other, in space every day.<br><br><br><b>Poem 3.<br><br></b>Deep bow for open space<br><br>Daring<br>Effervescent<br>Elegant <br>Profound<br><br>Beautiful<br>Open <br>World.<br><br>Wisdom<br>Offers<br>Bounty<br><br>Pleasure<br>Essence<br>Every <br>Day.<br><br><br><b>Poem 4.<br><br></b>Pondering Open Space<br> <br>I sit and wonder,<br>Why am I here?<br>What can I contribute?<br> <br>Patience, my soul answers.<br>Patience, and wait.<br>All will come clear.<br> <br>Other voices rise and fall,<br>Puzzled, but accepting,<br>Quietly I wait...<br> <br>Ah, it comes to me:<br>Some contribute by speaking,<br>Others by being the deep, cool pool into which they make a splash.<br> <br>I listen to their talking,<br>And gradually, patiently, I understand.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></span></font></pre></span><br /><hr />Check on MSN NZ Money for a hand <a href='http://money.msn.co.nz' target='_new'>Feeling the financial pinch?</a></body>
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