<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Jeff.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What I loved was the theme, crossing over from one understanding to another.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Beautiful to be in it, and to see these varied expressions of that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Tenneson</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 23, 2016, at 11:28 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Read these poems! Love these poems. Vote for these poems! By June 30.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">(I hope this fixed the format)</p><p dir="ltr" class="">The semiannual OSLIST Limited Form Poetry Contest begins now! We have 11 entries in the contest below.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">As a member of oslist you have five votes or "virtual sticky dots" to use. Please reply TO ME only - NOT the oslist - or write <a href="mailto:rjeffaitken@gmail.com" class="">rjeffaitken@gmail.com</a> with</p><p dir="ltr" class="">- the number of the poem.<br class="">
- the number of dots you are giving that poem.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">The contest ends Thursday June 30 at midnight California time. The new Poet Laureate will be crowned with a virtual laurel of leaves on July 1.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">AND (drum roll) the new Laureate will be awarded a copy of Chris Corrigan's newly beautifully published book The Tao of Open Space. Thanks Chris.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Apologies for any formatting issues. If you sent a poem and it's not here - let me know asap!</p><p dir="ltr" class="">(I offered poems to the celebration but not to the contest. Let our new Laureate be chosen now! - Jeff)</p><p dir="ltr" class="">With a shoutout to our dear departed Ralph Copleman z''l who originated the Celebration and Contest...</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Here are the poems - enjoy!<br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">1:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">It was obvious there was pain.</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">Feelings hurt. Wounds infected.</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">Hopes, dwindling relentlessly over the horizon called “not today.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">It was the story underneath, finally excavated,</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">that began to change everything.</font><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">2:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">圍圓坐 sit around circle</font><br class="">
<font class="">相視識. Look to know each other</font><br class="">
<font class="">取紙筆 take pen n paper</font><br class="">
<font class="">述題旨 describe your theme</font><br class="">
<font class="">選時空 choose a space n time</font><br class="">
<font class="">召人議 invite people to discuss</font><br class="">
<font class="">蜂採蜜 bees keep busy</font><br class="">
<font class="">蝶翩舞 butterfly dances</font><br class="">
<font class="">此即時 now is right time</font><br class="">
<font class="">隨心聚 gather with your heartl</font><br class="">
<font class="">終亦始 end is also start</font><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">3:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">We are spreading out to the centre,</font><br class="">
<font class="">Unravelling to the core;</font><br class="">
<font class="">We are flowing in the stillness,</font><br class="">
<font class="">Living less being more.</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">The space it is opening,</font><br class="">
<font class="">The circle spirals in;</font><br class="">
<font class="">The frozen turns to water,</font><br class="">
<font class="">The frown becomes a grin.</font><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">4:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">Wenn ich sein kann</font><br class="">
<font class="">wer ich bin</font><br class="">
<font class="">kann ich werden</font><br class="">
<font class="">wer ich sein kann</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">When I can be</font><br class="">
<font class="">who I am</font><br class="">
<font class="">I can become</font><br class="">
<font class="">Who I can be</font><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">5:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">Moo</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">We moved</font><br class="">
<font class="">To overcome</font><br class="">
<font class="">Frames</font><br class="">
<font class="">Stale and hardened</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">We mooed</font><br class="">
<font class="">Crossing over</font><br class="">
<font class="">Grassy fields</font><br class="">
<font class="">Verdant minds</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">We mowed</font><br class="">
<font class="">Sharp shears</font><br class="">
<font class="">Breaking through</font><br class="">
<font class="">Rigid thoughts</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">We mooed</font><br class="">
<font class="">As we moved</font><br class="">
<font class="">On mowed</font><br class="">
<font class="">Open spaces</font><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">6:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">邀集圓坐相視識 Invite to sit a circle. Look to know each other</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">取紙筆 述題旨Take pen n paper; describe your theme</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">擇時空 召人議Choose a space n time; call people to meet</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">蜂飛蝶舞此即時Bees keep busy butterfly dances now is right time</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">隨心聚散 Gather or leave with your heart</font><br class="">
<font class="">終亦始 end is also start</font><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">7:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">邀圓環視取紙筆Invite a circle, look around, take a pen and paper</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">選定時空述題旨Choose a time-space, describe your topic</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">蜂蝶飛舞此即時 Bees and butterflies are dancing, now is right time</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">隨心聚散終亦始Gather or leave with your heart, end is also start</font><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">8:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">We have a right to treat each other well </font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">knowing from the depths of authenticity </font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">yet mysterious beyond human understanding</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">that good things emerge whenever we do.</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">What wonder filled constancy!</font><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">9:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">Life is a subtle affair </font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">in which we do well to notice </font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">that coupled in the swirl of the dance</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">is the real joy of living in togetherness</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">amid still feelings of oneness. </font><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">10:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">there was an old codger from maine</font><br class="">
<font class="">who said open those spaces again</font><br class="">
<font class="">for all those who did</font><br class="">
<font class="">I lift off me lid</font><br class="">
<font class="">and welcome all those who just came</font><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">11:</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">The space a circle</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">Three-dimensional circuit</font></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><font class="">Transmitting love-light</font></p>
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