<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Absolutely LOVING this Open Space poetry !! Thanks everyone…..<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can see a new way to being the Opening Circle !! 😀</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Romy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 Jan 2021, at 02:54, lucia pavia Ticzon via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px;font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:0.875rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto" class="">🎉</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px;font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:0.875rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><br class=""></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(49,49,49);word-spacing:1px;font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:0.875rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:0.875rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="auto" class="">Xcept if you get this far it’s sometimes trouble. Or </pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:0.875rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:0.875rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="auto" class="">Yehey! Now i / we all can </pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:0.875rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="auto" class="">Z zzzzz. </pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:0.875rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:0.875rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:0.875rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" dir="auto" class="">Love’t Thanks be! </pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:0.875rem;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" class=""><br class=""></pre></pre></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 2:31 AM Jeff Aitken via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" class="">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div align="left" dir="auto" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">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" class="">Poems of open space! With a convenor naming a poetic "form" to follow for that round of celebration. <br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">Here is one, in the form of three stanzas of haiku.</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">huge pens and newsprint</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">like twigs and leaves on the floor:</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">fall forest clearing.</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></p>
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<div align="left" dir="auto" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">wall like wide canvas</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">bare, primed, awaiting fresh strokes</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">painted by our hearts.</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></p>
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<div align="left" dir="auto" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">circle of welcome,</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto" class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">like setting an old table</p></div><p dir="ltr" class="">
for neighbors and friends.</p><p dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></p><pre style="font-family:courier,"courier new",monospace;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></p><p dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></p></div>
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