<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60363"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60378">Dear Chris, Jeff, Lisa and the rest who voted and all of those who shared a poem</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60363"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60363"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60806">Thank you very much for selecting my poem....</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60363"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60985">Thank you Jeff for organising this poetry contest....</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60363"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_61019">It is always a pleasure to moo...</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60363"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60363" dir="ltr">Chris my address is: 2049A M. Layug Street, San Miguel Village, Poblacion, Makati City, Philippines</div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60362"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60362">Christ thank you for the book - looking forward to reading the Tao of Open Space...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60362"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60362">Love to all</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60362"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60362">Carms</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60362"><br></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_59610"><span style="color:rgb(156, 0, 92);font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60808"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">True happiness is a state of mind.</span><br style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60807">Happiness is not a consequence of things that happen. </span><br style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Do not pursue happiness - practice it. </span><br style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60809">Sing, even if you do not sound good. </span><br style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60811">Smile, even when things go wrong. </span><br style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60810">Create happiness, and happy you will be.</span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60812"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60817" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60816"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60815"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60935"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60936"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Chris Corrigan via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com>; World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 1 July 2016, 23:54<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSList] New Poet Laureate: The OSLIST Poetry Contest!<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60814"><br><div id="yiv5084404971"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60813"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60947">Congratulations Carmela. Please send me your address and I'll send you a copy of the book!</div><div id="yiv5084404971AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv5084404971AppleMailSignature">Chris <br clear="none"><br clear="none">___________<div>CHRIS CORRIGAN</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_61056"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/">www.chriscorrigan.com</a></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div class="yiv5084404971yqt0625873006" id="yiv5084404971yqt69111"><div><br clear="none">On Jul 1, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60822"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60821"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_61453">Carmela Ariza is our new Poet Laureate of the OSLIST. Her poem is #5 below, entitled Moo. Congratulations Carmela!</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_61455">Chris Corrigan will you arrange to send Carmela your book The Tao of Open Space? Thanks for offering it as a prize for being selected!</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_61456">Thanks to all who composed poems and all who participated (by reading, by voting) in our celebration and contest.</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60943">Below are the poems with their author's names unless they asked to be anonymous.</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60942">May reading, hearing, writing, and speaking poetry enhance our lives in Open Space!</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60941">1: Tenneson Woolf</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60940"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_61457">It was obvious there was pain.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60939"><font color="#000000">Feelings hurt. Wounds infected.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_61381"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_61380">Hopes, dwindling relentlessly over the horizon called “not today.”</font></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60820"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60819">It was the story underneath, finally excavated,</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">that began to change everything.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_61458">2: Huck Lin</div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60945"><font color="#000000">圍圓坐 sit around circle</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">相視識. Look to know each other</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">取紙筆 take pen n paper</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">述題旨 describe your theme</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">選時空 choose a space n time</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">召人議 invite people to discuss</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">蜂採蜜 bees keep busy</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">蝶翩舞 butterfly dances</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">此即時 now is right time</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">隨心聚 gather with your heartl</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">終亦始 end is also start</font></div>
<div dir="ltr">3: Paul Levy</div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">We are spreading out to the centre,</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Unravelling to the core;</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">We are flowing in the stillness,</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Living less being more.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">The space it is opening,</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">The circle spirals in;</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">The frozen turns to water,</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">The frown becomes a grin.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr">4: Rolf Schneidereit</div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Wenn ich sein kann</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">wer ich bin</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">kann ich werden</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">wer ich sein kann</font></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_61384"><font color="#000000">When I can be</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">who I am</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">I can become</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Who I can be</font></div>
<div dir="ltr">5: Carmela Ariza</div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Moo</font></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60861"><font color="#000000">We moved</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">To overcome</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Frames</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Stale and hardened</font></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60863"><font color="#000000">We mooed</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Crossing over</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Grassy fields</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Verdant minds</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">We mowed</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Sharp shears</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Breaking through</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Rigid thoughts</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">We mooed</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">As we moved</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">On mowed</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">Open spaces</font></div>
<div dir="ltr">6: Huck Lin</div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">邀集圓坐相視識 Invite to sit a circle. Look to know each other</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">取紙筆 述題旨Take pen n paper; describe your theme</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">擇時空 召人議Choose a space n time; call people to meet</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">蜂飛蝶舞此即時Bees keep busy butterfly dances now is right time</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">隨心聚散 Gather or leave with your heart</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">終亦始 end is also start</font></div>
<div dir="ltr">7: Huck Lin</div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">邀圓環視取紙筆Invite a circle, look around, take a pen and paper</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">選定時空述題旨Choose a time-space, describe your topic</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">蜂蝶飛舞此即時 Bees and butterflies are dancing, now is right time</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">隨心聚散終亦始Gather or leave with your heart, end is also start</font></div>
<div dir="ltr">8:</div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">We have a right to treat each other well </font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">knowing from the depths of authenticity </font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">yet mysterious beyond human understanding</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">that good things emerge whenever we do.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">What wonder filled constancy!</font></div>
<div dir="ltr">9:</div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Life is a subtle affair </font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">in which we do well to notice </font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">that coupled in the swirl of the dance</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">is the real joy of living in togetherness</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">amid still feelings of oneness. </font></div>
<div dir="ltr">10: Alan Halford</div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">there was an old codger from maine</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">who said open those spaces again</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">for all those who did</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">I lift off me lid</font><br clear="none">
<font color="#000000">and welcome all those who just came</font></div>
<div dir="ltr">11: Susan Basterfield</div>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">The space a circle</font></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60857"><font color="#000000">Three-dimensional circuit</font></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1467351645457_60859"><font color="#000000">Transmitting love-light</font><br clear="none">
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