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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Great
OSLIST Poetry Contest <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Greetings
all:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Once
again it is time for the Poet Laureate (me, this time) to issue an invitation
to all to participate in the Great OSLIST Poetry Contest. As the current (and
very outgoing - grin) Poet Laureate, it falls to me to extend the invitation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>As
you no doubt know, the title of OSLIST Poet Laureate is awarded to the winner
of the Biannual OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest. Anyone may enter this
contest, and all list members have an opportunity to vote for the winner. The
winner becomes the OSLIST Poet Laureate for the next six months - holding space
for poetry on the OSLIST by sharing and / or inviting poetry - and is also
responsible for organizing the next contest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Restricted
Form means some described form or boundary for the poem. Past contests
have been inviting haiku, or each line starting with a new letter of the
alphabet, or a poem about five things at your desk, a poem in a certain form
about the senses, or about nature, or about Open Space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Some
rules:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>The topic of
the contest, this year, will be <u>either about the grounding or soaring nature
of OS or both</u>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>If you write
your poem in your own language which may not be English, please do add a
translation in English.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Due to the
various OSonOS’s going on this month, I have decided that you have until
May 31<sup>st</sup> at midnight eastern daylight time to send your poems to <a
href="mailto:oslistpoetry@gmail.com">oslistpoetry@gmail.com</a> and the OSLIST.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>The
Process of Voting:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>After
that date I will publish [again] on the list the text of every piece of poetry
sent to me. The poems will be judged by a vote of the OSLIST members, and
the author of the poem that attracts the majority of votes will become our next
Poet Laureate, which includes the honor of holding space for Open Space poetry
for our list for the next 6 months.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>A
little history of the contest, from Chris Corrigan:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>“For
all those who might be curious, the OSLIST Biannual Restricted Form Poetry
Contest started in the spring of 2000 when I issued the challenge to the
list. Ralph Copleman actually began the whole thing with a contest in the
fall of 1999 (which I won) and so he is the “Poetry King” for all
time. I just claimed the “Poet Laureate” title in an effort
to have some fun. It was something of a one martini idea, and I was out
of gin at the time...”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>The
complete history is as follows – thanks to Anne Hiha for researching
this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>In
'99 Ralph Copleman launched The 'Open Space A to Z Contest.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>His
poems (2) - <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Always
be careful<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Doubt
every force<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Gathered
here in jealous kisses<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Let
my nearness only press<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Quiet,
restful stretches together,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Useful
verities will x-cite you zealously.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Agendas
Beckoning<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Circles
debut effortlessly.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Fresh
gists,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Honored
in juiciful knowing,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Loosen
miraculous, new, open passions,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Quenchable,
really,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Since
time undoes vexatious worry.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>X-tend
your zone!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Chris
Corrigan became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 1999 November - A to Z, 26 words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>HOLDING
THE SPACE<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>A
brilliantly choreographed dance emerges.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Faces
glow happily.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I'm
just keeping low, minding nothing,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>observing
people, quietly ruminating,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>studying
things,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>until
various worldly x-periences yield zonally<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Chris
Weaver became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2000 May - Relating to Open Space in four
stanzas of four lines, each containing four words <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>OPEN
SPACE<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>You
have arrived here<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>before,
burning for air,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>surfacing
in a circle<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>of
early spring lakewater<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>with
loons around you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Did
even the ones<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>who
love you understand<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>why
you stepped off<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>the
dock into black<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>water?
The beckoning voice<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>was
so soft: consider<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>the
lilies. We carve<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>that
first time into<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>a
monument of birdsong<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>and
hand each other deeper<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>trust,
easily, like sandwiches.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Jeff
Aitken became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2000 November - Triple-American-Haiku,
inspired by Open Space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>huge
pens and newsprint<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>like
twigs and leaves on the floor:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>fall
forest clearing.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>wall
like wide canvas<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>bare,
primed, awaiting wide strokes<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>painted
by our hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>circle
of welcome,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>like
setting an old table<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>for
neighbors and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Florian
Fischer became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2001 May - Exactly 21 words, and begin
with the letter A.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>anfang<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>am
anfang war kein ende.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>so
ward entschieden<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>da
anfang auf anfang folge<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>immerdar<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>vorbei-ist-vorbei
bedeutet darum:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>gib
raum neuem anfang<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>-
- <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>beginning<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>at
the beginning<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>there
was no end<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>ever
since they decided<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>beginning
forever<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>over-is-over
tells us<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>its
time for a further beginning<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Laurel
Doersam became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2002 February - 5 objects within your
sight, let the space work, write<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>the
space in my sight glancing into a mirror<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I've
turned into a Renaissance painting!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Picture
this:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>an
extra thirty pounds adorns my thighs and torso,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>my
eyes are Mona Lisa-esque<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>(read
that "no lashes or brows")<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>the
only thing missing is the long, flowing tresses.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
do, however, have a very short,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>snappy
wig interwoven with a passle of white hairs -<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>it's
quite a good rug, but ITCHY. I'm still quite startled<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>every
time I inadvertently glance into a mirror.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Audrey
Coward became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2002 November - 10 lines long<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>TRANSFORMATION<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Open
space in your heart<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Drill
down<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>down<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>down<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Past
all fears<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Let
them go<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Arrive
in virgin open space<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Where
you become brand new<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>once
again<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>and
greet yourself as if for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Joelle
Everett became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2003 April - Any length on Peace or The
Practice of Peace <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I'm
breathing the smoke<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>of
gunshots, mortars, missiles,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>and
oil wells burning.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I'm
stirring in the night,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>hearing
children crying and mothers keening<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>It
has the grit of desert sandstorm.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>The
night sky is torn by explosives,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>cut
by the arc of a missile.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>There's
no place far enough<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>to
put my heart at ease.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Can
I buy another chance?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
want to refuse to take sides.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
want to imagine a world<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>more
spacious and more intimate.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
want the courage to buy<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>homes
and meals and schoolbooks<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>instead
of guns and tanks.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
want to be peace, wild and fierce and sweet.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Florian
Fischer became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2003 November - I wonder . . .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
wonder<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
wonder<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>whether
words will work<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
wonder<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>whether
wanting will work<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
wonder<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>whether
worrying will work<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
wonder<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>whether
voting will work<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>to
get answers on<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>where
to go and<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>when
to stop and<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>how
to stay<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>will
worshipping work<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>or
waiting for wonders<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>or
is it simply giving welcome<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>to
the wonder happening<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>already
and continuously<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>as
selffulfilling reality<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>not
answering any question<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>about
right or wrong<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>or
how or where or when<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
am to witness the wonder<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>and
to stay wondering until<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>perhaps
to my two words before last:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
wonder<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Joelle
Everett became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2004 September - Butterflies and open
space (Hosted by Jeff)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>PORTALS<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>In
the green heart of the wild wood,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Woodpecker
is knocking:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>at
midsummer the air is as green<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>as
light filtered through emerald.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Deer
steps into a shadow<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>And
disappears.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
sit by the water drumming,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>open
my eyes to Butterfly -<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>a
flash of black and yellow<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>rises
up in my face,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>soars
over my head and leaves me<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>drumming,
enchanted.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Earth
holds the weight of tree trunks,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>heavy
and unmoving,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>but
in the circle of the sky<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>leafy
treetops bend and shake,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>playing
a wild game<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>with
the wind.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>The
air is interlaced with open spaces,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>this
world and some other<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>lie
as close together<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>as
a leaf lies against the air -<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>a
blink of an eye, shift of imagination,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>will
take me there.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>And
my heart is captured by longing,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>restless
with the thin veneer<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>over
the surfaces of things,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>watching
for the moment of invitation:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>a
trembling leaf, Woodpecker knocking,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>a
new note in your voice . . .<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>The
world on fire burns with a green flame:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
will not trade a precious moment<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>of
the chaos, joy and pain<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>for
a life with no surprises,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>for
a day with no time<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>to
let you in.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Lisa
Heft became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2006 February - Theme is OST; the form is
satire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
Am So Amazing<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
invite them to crawl around on the floor<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>...and
they do.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>...and
they kind of like it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
invite them to post signs on a wall, run around the room like insects.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
tell them feet have laws.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>The
part they see me do is pick up their coffee cups - incredibly<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>skilled
work, worthy of huge sums of money.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
ring a bell; they sit. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
have such power.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Teresa
Posakony became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2006 September - relates to Open Space
in some way and to include, reflect upon, honor or use the senses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Diving
Deep<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Are
you ready?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>No
I mean. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Are
you READY?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>The
time is now<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Hold
my hand<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Together
we dive<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Into
the river of heart and soul<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>The
water is deep and quick<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>All
there is to do is trust the flow<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Struggling
makes no sense though<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>We
don't know where the river goes<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>The
choice is clear<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Ready<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Set<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Wait
a minute Let me catch my breath<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Go.
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Karen
Sella became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2007 May - Relates to Open Space in some
way and that includes, reflects upon, honors or invites images of nature and /
or the earth. (Hosted by Lisa)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Open
Space for Cats and Dogs<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
walk through fragrant blue sky<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Bare
feet on wet grass.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>It
is too cold for bare feet,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>But
my teachers have taught me well.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Who
can resist a noisy yawn and a warm wiggle first thing in the morning?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>To
greet each dawn and each other with a curious heart.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>To
be mesmerized by the smallest motion.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>To
breathe the air, the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>To
inhale the stories in each blade of grass. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>To
forgo the coffee and drink the dew.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>To
listen for what can't be heard.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>To
bathe in light and nap awake in the middle of the day.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Is
to arrive fully alive.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Forget
the honey, taste the bee.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
have but one question:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>When
the butterfly lands on my nose, can I eat it?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Jeff
Aitken became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2008 March - The personal, inner
experience of Open Space - the open space within the unbounded expanse of heart
and mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>When
my father died I grieved all year. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>But
Michael Stipe was right that sweetness follows.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>When
it's over,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>A
cloud of feeling lingers, calls up memories, shows me the world with eyes<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>more
raw, more open to this stark, leafless maple growing in the sidewalk.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>And
shows me to the work that's next to do.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>When
it's over,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>We
might start that lovely, awkward dance of hugs, and wait our turn to hug<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Ralph,
and Chris, Karen, Joelle, and Lisa, everyone who won and wrote and<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>read,
and lay a wreath for Laurel on the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>When
it's over,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>we
might stand in Harrison's circle with hands joined and faces outward,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>hearts
burst open to the horizon and the mystery of walking toward it, alone<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>and
together, finding spaces snapping open like poppies.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Anne
Hiha became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2008 October - Letters of your Alphabet, an
experience with open space that shook your life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Worldwide-Openspace
Online: The consummate butterfly <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Awake<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>But
no!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Cant
be!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Did
I really sleep through a whole event?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Easy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>First,
lay your head down<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Get
nice and cosy<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Head
snuggled on the perfect pillow<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Island
of dreams<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Just
for a while<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Keep
those eyes closed<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Let
the world roll on<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Magic
moment.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>No
going back in, it's over.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Over?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Please,
please what did I miss?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Quiet
screen is adamant, you had your chance.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Right
whoever’s there<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Sigh...
Still... I would have liked to have been there<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Up
now<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Vitality
returned<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>When’s
the next one?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Xmas
doesn’t wait for anyone either<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Yet<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Zzzzz<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Esther
Ewing became OSLIST Poet Laureate in 2009 August - Deep bow to WOSonOS 2009,
any form<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Pondering
Open Space<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
sit and wonder,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Why
am I here?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>What
can I contribute?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Patience,
my soul answers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Patience,
and wait.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>All
will come clear.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Other
voices rise and fall,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Puzzled,
but accepting,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Quietly
I wait...<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Ah,
it comes to me:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Some
contribute by speaking,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>Others
by being the deep, cool pool into which they make a splash.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>I
listen to their talking,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'>And
gradually, patiently, I understand.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:#002060'>Ewing Change Consulting<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:#002060'>Creating Success from Within<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:#002060'>24 Phoebe Street,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:#002060'>Toronto, ON M5T 2Z3<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:#002060'>Canada<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:#002060'>Esther@EwingChange.com <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:red'>Toronto: 416-792-0971<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:red'>New York: 646-963-3747<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";
color:red'>Cell: 647-224-0021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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