<div dir="ltr">G'day Jeff, Newly retired Poet Laureate of the OSTLIST and convener of this next round, and All.<div><br></div><div>Congratulations to you Carmela as the worthy person to carry the mantle.</div><div><br></div><div>I am the contributor of the two anonymous entries. </div><div><br></div><div>As I indicated to Jeff, "<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">They are products of my being deeply influenced by experiencing of OST and the World Cafe </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">as a practitioner </span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">and as an associate of lively spirits all around our little planet, 3rd from the sun</span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">."</span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">And while my poems do not touch directly on OST they are the underpinning of another process, closely related, which has similar principles. This innovation is a way in which a host opens space not in the course of addressing complex issues. In this the purpose is to to co-create a container in which participants have rich encounters with strangers.</span></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">More on what I call </span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Conversare,</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> from the Latin </span><i style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">con versare - to turn or to dance together </i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">can be seen </span><a href="http://conversare.net/?page_id=250" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">about what it is</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> , events in </span><a href="http://conversare.net/?m=201305" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">America in 2013 </a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and what is </span><a href="http://conversare.net/?p=2337" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">now emerging</a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> including for WOS24 in Manila.</span></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">This note comes from Hong Kong, the place where <b>Conversare</b> was born during my stay of six happy years until 2011 when I returned to Adelaide, Australia. I am spending a few days here meeting up with old friends and then going on to London for several weeks to connect f2f with my three England born grandchildren ages 5 to 8.</span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Looking forward with no expectations and delicious anticipations ... <smile> </span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Go well</span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Alan </span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alan Stewart, PhD<br>Facilitator of conversations that matter and participatory fun<br><span>Senior</span> <span>Fulbright</span> <span>Scholar</span><br>Blog: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://conversare.net/" target="_blank"><b>Conversare</b></a><br><b>FB: <span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ConversareSA" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ConversareSA</a></span></b></span></font></p><font size="2"></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Member: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><a href="http://www.ntmu.com.au/" target="_blank">National Trouble Makers Union</a></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><br></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Book: <a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=243">Time to converse- at the heart of human warmth</a></b></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br><font size="1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=243">http://www.multimindsolutions.com/?page_id=243</a><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><img src="http://www.multimindsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/logo1.png" height="41" width="200"></div></div><font size="1"></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></font></p><font size="1"></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></font></p><font size="1"></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="1"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> ‘<font size="2">Be prepared to be <span>delighted</span>’</font></span></b></font><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></span></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 July 2016 at 22:28, Jeff Aitken via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Carmela Ariza is our new Poet Laureate of the OSLIST. Her poem is #5 below, entitled Moo. Congratulations Carmela!</p>
<p dir="ltr">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!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks to all who composed poems and all who participated (by reading, by voting) in our celebration and contest.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Below are the poems with their author's names unless they asked to be anonymous.</p>
<p dir="ltr">May reading, hearing, writing, and speaking poetry enhance our lives in Open Space!</p>
<p dir="ltr">1: Tenneson Woolf</p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">It was obvious there was pain.</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Feelings hurt. Wounds infected.</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Hopes, dwindling relentlessly over the horizon called “not today.”</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">It was the story underneath, finally excavated,</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">that began to change everything.</font></p>
<p dir="ltr">2: Huck Lin</p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">圍圓坐 sit around circle</font><br>
<font color="#000000">相視識. Look to know each other</font><br>
<font color="#000000">取紙筆 take pen n paper</font><br>
<font color="#000000">述題旨 describe your theme</font><br>
<font color="#000000">選時空 choose a space n time</font><br>
<font color="#000000">召人議 invite people to discuss</font><br>
<font color="#000000">蜂採蜜 bees keep busy</font><br>
<font color="#000000">蝶翩舞 butterfly dances</font><br>
<font color="#000000">此即時 now is right time</font><br>
<font color="#000000">隨心聚 gather with your heartl</font><br>
<font color="#000000">終亦始 end is also start</font></p>
<p dir="ltr">3: Paul Levy</p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">We are spreading out to the centre,</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Unravelling to the core;</font><br>
<font color="#000000">We are flowing in the stillness,</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Living less being more.</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">The space it is opening,</font><br>
<font color="#000000">The circle spirals in;</font><br>
<font color="#000000">The frozen turns to water,</font><br>
<font color="#000000">The frown becomes a grin.</font></p>
<p dir="ltr">4: Rolf Schneidereit</p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Wenn ich sein kann</font><br>
<font color="#000000">wer ich bin</font><br>
<font color="#000000">kann ich werden</font><br>
<font color="#000000">wer ich sein kann</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">When I can be</font><br>
<font color="#000000">who I am</font><br>
<font color="#000000">I can become</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Who I can be</font></p>
<p dir="ltr">5: Carmela Ariza</p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Moo</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">We moved</font><br>
<font color="#000000">To overcome</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Frames</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Stale and hardened</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">We mooed</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Crossing over</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Grassy fields</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Verdant minds</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">We mowed</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Sharp shears</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Breaking through</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Rigid thoughts</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">We mooed</font><br>
<font color="#000000">As we moved</font><br>
<font color="#000000">On mowed</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Open spaces</font></p>
<p dir="ltr">6: Huck Lin</p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">邀集圓坐相視識 Invite to sit a circle. Look to know each other</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">取紙筆 述題旨Take pen n paper; describe your theme</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">擇時空 召人議Choose a space n time; call people to meet</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">蜂飛蝶舞此即時Bees keep busy butterfly dances now is right time</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">隨心聚散 Gather or leave with your heart</font><br>
<font color="#000000">終亦始 end is also start</font></p>
<p dir="ltr">7: Huck Lin</p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">邀圓環視取紙筆Invite a circle, look around, take a pen and paper</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">選定時空述題旨Choose a time-space, describe your topic</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">蜂蝶飛舞此即時 Bees and butterflies are dancing, now is right time</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">隨心聚散終亦始Gather or leave with your heart, end is also start</font></p>
<p dir="ltr">8:</p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">We have a right to treat each other well </font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">knowing from the depths of authenticity </font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">yet mysterious beyond human understanding</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">that good things emerge whenever we do.</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">What wonder filled constancy!</font></p>
<p dir="ltr">9:</p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Life is a subtle affair </font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">in which we do well to notice </font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">that coupled in the swirl of the dance</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">is the real joy of living in togetherness</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">amid still feelings of oneness. </font></p>
<p dir="ltr">10: Alan Halford</p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">there was an old codger from maine</font><br>
<font color="#000000">who said open those spaces again</font><br>
<font color="#000000">for all those who did</font><br>
<font color="#000000">I lift off me lid</font><br>
<font color="#000000">and welcome all those who just came</font></p>
<p dir="ltr">11: Susan Basterfield</p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">The space a circle</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Three-dimensional circuit</font></p>
<p dir="ltr"><font color="#000000">Transmitting love-light</font><br>
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