<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpc71ba3ddyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Brilliant Jeff, absolutely brilliant!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">You get the prize.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Thank you... I needed that.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">eg</div><div><br></div>
</div><div id="ydp8d1dc620yahoo_quoted_2302866055" class="ydp8d1dc620yahoo_quoted">
<div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">
<div>
On Friday, January 29, 2021, 02:52:18 PM EST, Jeff Aitken via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><div id="ydp8d1dc620yiv9432125727"><div><div><div align="left"><p dir="ltr">An open space</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">By internet</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Can serve</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">During</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Emergencies</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Fostering</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Good conversations</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Held in surprising</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Intimacy</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Just because our</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Kind faces</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Linger at the screen</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Making that</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Nearby feeling.</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Optimally a</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Platform like</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Qiqo is a</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Resource</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Suited</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">To</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Underpin a</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Very</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Welcoming</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Xperience if</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">You so</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">deZire.</p>
</div><p dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></p></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp8d1dc620yiv9432125727yqt3529758774" id="ydp8d1dc620yiv9432125727yqt12764"><div class="ydp8d1dc620yiv9432125727gmail_quote"><div class="ydp8d1dc620yiv9432125727gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 10:12 AM Jeff Aitken <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp8d1dc620yiv9432125727gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div align="left"><p dir="ltr">Hi folks. The warm invite to check the oslist archives led me on a good journey last night. Some of the jewels I found were poems, from the days of the "poetry celebration and contest" that lived here for a long while. </p><p dir="ltr">Poems of open space! With a convenor naming a poetic "form" to follow for that round of celebration. <br clear="none"></p><p dir="ltr">Here is one, in the form of three stanzas of haiku.</p><p dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></p><p dir="ltr">huge pens and newsprint</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">like twigs and leaves on the floor:</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">fall forest clearing.</p><p dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></p>
</div><p dir="ltr"></p>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">wall like wide canvas</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">bare, primed, awaiting fresh strokes</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">painted by our hearts.</p><p dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></p>
</div><p dir="ltr"></p>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">circle of welcome,</p></div>
<div align="left"><p dir="ltr">like setting an old table</p></div><p dir="ltr">
for neighbors and friends.</p><p dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></p><p dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></p><p dir="ltr">Here is one in a fun form using an alphabet. It's not about open space, but is about writing a poem, kinda. (Without launching a new Celebration formally, i invite you to try it...)</p><p dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></p><pre style="font-family:courier, monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);">And I
Believe you too
Can
Do a poem, and
Even
Fairly
Gracefully – I
Have seen
Innovative
Juxtapositions
Kindly
Line up in
Many
New and
Original
Poems - it’s
Quite
Reasonable to get
So many words
To line
Up
Very
Willingly
Xcept if you get this far it’s sometimes trouble.</pre><p dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></p><p dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></p></div>
</blockquote></div></div>
</div></div><div class="ydp8d1dc620yqt3529758774" id="ydp8d1dc620yqt55437">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">OSList mailing list<br clear="none">To post send emails to <a shape="rect" href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br clear="none">To unsubscribe send an email to <a shape="rect" href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br clear="none">To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br clear="none">Past archives can be viewed here: <a shape="rect" href="http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a></div></div>
</div>
</div></body></html>