<div dir="auto"><div><div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Rockport (a poem)</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p>
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<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">When crossing open space</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Use the edges of your eyes.</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">The old ones say that golden keys</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Rest under the smallest stones,</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Cared for by guards, who know</p></div><p dir="ltr">The secrets of shoes.</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 9:26 AM doug via OSList <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Paul--<br>
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I love to see your poetry when it pops up on oslist from time to time. <br>
It is evocative for me. Thank you.<br>
<br>
:- Doug.<br>
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On 1/30/21 8:43 AM, paul levy via OSList wrote:<br>
> Opening Space<br>
> <br>
> In this place there are only tones.<br>
> No bodily function yet movement<br>
> From thought that flexes<br>
> Non-existent muscles.<br>
> <br>
> There are no nouns, only verb<br>
> Upon verb, Like fields and valleys,<br>
> The language spoken by<br>
> The dead, who have cast off all nouns<br>
> Is a landscape uttered here.<br>
> <br>
> There are harmonics and rising pitch<br>
> That discords as pain, and accords<br>
> As love.<br>
> <br>
> In this place there is only tone.<br>
> There is communion in notes with a<br>
> Melody of Meaning and it is possible<br>
> To touch another with the intention<br>
> Of a healing song.<br>
> <br>
> Into this place, I unfold my wings of sound-borne light.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, 11:48 Romy Shovelton via OSList, <br>
> <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>> <br>
> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Absolutely LOVING this Open Space poetry !! Thanks everyone…..<br>
> <br>
> I can see a new way to being the Opening Circle !! 😀<br>
> <br>
> Romy<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
>> On 30 Jan 2021, at 02:54, lucia pavia Ticzon via OSList<br>
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>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> 🎉<br>
>><br>
>> Xcept if you get this far it’s sometimes trouble. Or<br>
>><br>
>> Yehey! Now i / we all can<br>
>> Z zzzzz.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Love’t Thanks be!<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 2:31 AM Jeff Aitken via OSList<br>
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>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi folks. The warm invite to check the oslist archives led me<br>
>> on a good journey last night. Some of the jewels I found were<br>
>> poems, from the days of the "poetry celebration and contest"<br>
>> that lived here for a long while.<br>
>><br>
>> Poems of open space! With a convenor naming a poetic "form" to<br>
>> follow for that round of celebration.<br>
>><br>
>> Here is one, in the form of three stanzas of haiku.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> huge pens and newsprint<br>
>><br>
>> like twigs and leaves on the floor:<br>
>><br>
>> fall forest clearing.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> wall like wide canvas<br>
>><br>
>> bare, primed, awaiting fresh strokes<br>
>><br>
>> painted by our hearts.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> circle of welcome,<br>
>><br>
>> like setting an old table<br>
>><br>
>> for neighbors and friends.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> Here is one in a fun form using an alphabet. It's not about<br>
>> open space, but is about writing a poem, kinda. (Without<br>
>> launching a new Celebration formally, i invite you to try it...)<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> And I<br>
>> Believe you too<br>
>> Can<br>
>> Do a poem, and<br>
>> Even<br>
>> Fairly<br>
>> Gracefully – I<br>
>> Have seen<br>
>> Innovative<br>
>> Juxtapositions<br>
>> Kindly<br>
>> Line up in<br>
>> Many<br>
>> New and<br>
>> Original<br>
>> Poems - it’s<br>
>> Quite<br>
>> Reasonable to get<br>
>> So many words<br>
>> To line<br>
>> Up<br>
>> Very<br>
>> Willingly<br>
>> Xcept if you get this far it’s sometimes trouble.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
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