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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="font-size:12pt;" face="Garamond" size="3">Well, I feel privileged and honoured to be selected. <br><br>Thank you to everyone and especially to Lisa for organsing this and to Kerry and Carmela for their lovely poems.<br><br>I am so excited! I'm going to enjoy promoting the poetry of Open Space Technology, and of open space.<br><br>Love,<br><br>Jonathan<br id="FontBreak"></font><br><i><br></i><i></i><hr size="2" width="100%"> <br><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: lisaheft@openingspace.net<br>To: OSList@lists.openspacetech.org<br>Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 17:44:24 -0700<br>Subject: [OSList] And now, our new OSLIST Poet Laureate.... !<br><br><div>Ladies and gentlemen - I now present to you our new Poet Laureate of Open Space:</div><div><br></div><div>J o n a t h a n C o e</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS !!</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan will now hold space for poetry on the OSLIST through the rest of the year.</div><div>And how enriched we will be !</div><div><br></div><div>This mens he will write, or invite, or feel, or however he wishes to hold space for poetry for our community and for Open Space.</div><div><br></div><div>And see who the other poets are - their work is amazing amazing. Do continue to gift us with your thoughts and words, everyone - all inspiration welcome.</div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy, and a deep bow to our new Poet Laureate...</div><div>Lisa</div><div><br></div><div>____</div><div><br></div><div>First, Jonathan's poem - one of his two contributions to the contest. And then the other fabulous poems from our thoughtful creative colleagues. Happy reading and dreaming and imagining...</div><div><br></div><div>___</div><div><br></div><div><div>WOSONOS 2012 </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>In Stoke Newington Town Hall I fell in love with nothing,</div><div>and it was no thing that I loved.</div><div><br></div><div>Alone, knowing no-one and nothing I walked the circle</div><div>I got present</div><div>I was connected.</div><div><br></div><div>Presence,</div><div>absence.<span class="ecxApple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></div><div>The empty space of the opening circle.</div><div>Profoundly empty,</div><div>containing no thing</div><div><br></div><div>Through me </div><div>everything and no-thing, in me</div><div>the circle, in me</div><div>the space, in me</div><div>the people, in me</div><div>butterflies and bumblebees. In me</div><div>body, in me</div><div>mind, in me</div><div>image, in me</div><div>thought, in me</div><div>feeling, in me</div><div>sensation, in me</div><div>nothing. </div><div><br></div><div>It started at the right time</div><div>The right people were the ones who came</div><div>The only thing that could have happened</div><div>Was what happened</div><div>It was over when it was over.</div><div><br></div><div>The bees were buzzing</div><div>The 'flies were flitting</div><div>The space was open.</div><div>The circle was squared.</div><div><br></div><div>--<i> Jonathan Coe (London, England)</i></div></div> <div><br></div> <div>_____</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Loving My Blank Walls</div> <div>28 February 2013, 12:58PM</div> <div>Tacloban City</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>I love my blank walls</div> <div> </div> <div>They are empty spaces</div> <div>For treasures of my heart</div> <div> </div> <div>They are my open spaces</div> <div>Where I play and dance</div> <div> </div> <div>There I draw</div> <div>Dreams and visions</div> <div> </div> <div>There I start anew</div> <div>Awakening fresh each morning</div> <div> </div> <div>There my mind wanders</div> <div>Coloring my canvass with ideas</div> <div> </div> <div>There I forget</div> <div>And I remember</div> <div> </div> <div>There I am</div> <div>There I am not</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>-- <i>Carmela Ariza (Manila, the Philippines) </i></div> <div><br></div><div>____________</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div><div><i>This poem are words I put together from the participants in the Open Space on Future of Learning here in Manila in 2011. As I listened to the participants I wrote down all the beautiful words and phrases uttered and organized them into this (see below). These were words/phrases from about half of the participants as I was seated somewhere in the middle (of the circumference) of the circle in the closing ceremony. I listened to each one, wrote down, and when It was my turn to speak, I read this piece.</i></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>Open Spaces in My Heart</div> <div>participants’ beautiful insights woven into one poem by Carmela Ariza</div> <div>at the OST conference on Learning for the Future closing</div> <div>SEAMEO Innotech, Manila, March 2012</div> <div> </div> <div><br></div><div>Help us to just be</div> <div>Not controlling</div> <div><br></div> <div>Help us share what we learned</div> <div>To listen to everyone since we are all brilliant and wise</div> <div><br></div> <div>Fill us with hope</div> <div>So that we may be the rockets and stars in open space</div> <div><br></div> <div>As we sit at the edge of the lake, keep us still and peaceful</div> <div>So that we can marvel at the beauty of open spaces</div> <div><br></div> <div>Thank you for the gift of the moment</div> <div>To slow down, because to be slow also means to be fast</div> <div><br></div> <div>Lead us to walk towards </div> <div>what is life giving</div> <div><br></div> <div>We were initially hesitant</div> <div>But we have learned to open ourselves to others</div> <div><br></div> <div>We have found the open space </div> <div>in our silence within</div> <div><br></div> <div>From living in tight spaces</div> <div>We now know how to live in open spaces</div> <div><br></div> <div>We thank the sacred source</div> <div>For the space of humility and listening from the heart</div> <div>For our nature is to be free</div> <div> </div> <div>Within this happy sacred circle</div> <div>Help us bring healing to others</div> <div> </div> <div>Make our circle continuously open</div> <div>So that our learning will never stop</div> <div> </div> <div>Thank you that we have regained our lost passion</div> <div>And turned our cynicism into idealism</div> <div> </div> <div>Beyond this meeting</div> <div>Use our passions to shape a better future</div> <div> </div> <div>May this be just a beginning of more open spaces</div> <div>New choices, which are the key to freedom</div> <div> </div> <div>Keep us curious</div> <div>Help us sustain the convergence</div> <div> </div> <div>Instill in us a sense of urgency</div> <div>To embrace and own the direction towards what is right and good.</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>--<i> Carmela Ariza (Manila, the Philippines)</i></div> <div><br></div> <div>_____</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div><div><br></div> <div>space,</div> <div><br></div> <div>opening</div> <div><br></div> <div>unfolding</div> <div><br></div> <div>wondrous</div><div><br></div><div><br></div> <div><br></div><div><i>-- Kerry Napuk (Edinburgh, Scotland)</i></div> <div><br></div> <div>_____</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><i>This piece I wrote as the team of OS facilitators were designing for many days the Sumatran Rhino Crisis Summit. I was reflecting on the issue and I just thought about these....</i></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>Saving the Rhinos and Me</div> <div>by: Carmela Ariza</div> <div>4 March 2013, 11:52AM</div> <div> </div> <div><br></div><div>Can we really save the rhino?</div> <div>Or are we here to save ourselves?</div> <div> </div> <div>Are we talking about the rhino?</div> <div>Or are we talking about me and you?</div> <div> </div> <div>Should we talk about them?</div> <div>Or should be talk about us?</div> <div> </div> <div>It’s hard when we have to look out there</div> <div>When the answers are all in here</div> <div> </div> <div>Is it the Rhino who’s running out of time?</div> <div>Or it is us who are chasing the past?</div> <div> </div> <div>Tomorrow seems to be now</div> <div>And today seems to have gone by</div> <div> </div> <div>We’ve all come from places near or far</div> <div>Does your presence have a reason and a rhyme</div> <div> </div> <div>How can we make our conversations</div> <div>Mean more than what we came here for</div> <div> </div> <div>Perhaps we all want answers</div> <div>The question is: what is the question?</div> <div> </div> <div>How can we find what’s good for the rhino?</div> <div>If we can’t find what’s good for ourselves</div> <div> </div> <div>Let’s try to listen more</div> <div>To the calling that’s within</div> <div> </div> <div>Let’s try to open up the spaces</div> <div>For the wisdom we all have to share!</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>-- <i>Carmela Ariza (Manila, the Philippines)</i></div> <div><br></div> <div>_____</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>Space Open Circle </div><div><br></div> <div><i>from Open Space Technology - A Users Guide by Harrison Owen</i></div> <div><i>Note: This poem is in the 'found poetry' form. I have made selections from the </i><i>original text and decided how to shape and punctuate it.</i></div> <div><i>I have removed all the other words from the book - but none from </i><i>the selected phrases.</i></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div>The circle is the fundamental geometry</div> <div>of human communication.</div> <div><br></div> <div>A circle has no head or feet,</div> <div>no high or low</div> <div>no sides to take;</div> <div>in a circle people can simply be</div> <div>with each other,</div> <div>face to face.</div> <div><br></div> <div>The geometry of the circle </div> <div>and the rhythm of breath.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Show Up</div> <div>Be Present</div> <div>Tell The Truth</div> <div>Let It All Go.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Do nothing and remain</div> <div>invisible.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Be prepared</div> <div>to be</div> <div>surprised.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Who ever heard of a square of friends?</div> <div><br></div><div><br></div> <div>-- <i>Jonathan Coe (London, England)</i></div> <div><br></div> <div>_____</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div><div><i>This was what I wrote during the Rhino Summit - I started writing there and finished it after. It is a very short one...</i></div> <div><br></div><div><br></div> <div>Spaces Made Holy for the Rhino</div> <div><br></div> <div>I sit on holy ground </div> <div>As people open spaces</div> <div>To try to save the rhino</div> <div>there are spaces</div> <div>Between us</div> <div>Above us</div> <div>Inside us</div> <div>To voice</div> <div>To listen</div> <div>To Respect</div> <div>And to suspend</div> <div>We are holding the space</div> <div>For a flow of meaning</div> <div>That will be shared by all</div> <div>Even for difficult moments</div> <div>We seek to keep the space open</div> <div>Today, I stand firmly on holy ground</div> <div><br></div> <div>-- <i>Carmela Ariza (Manila, the Philippines)</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div> <div><br></div> <br><br>_______________________________________________
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