<div dir="auto"><div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Americausa the</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Beautiful</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Couldn't</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Deftly</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Embrace</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Fresh</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Government</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Harnessing</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Inspiration</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Just as a</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Killer app</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Made</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Numerous</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Oppositions</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Plain.</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Qoax</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Rekindled</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Severe</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Trials</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Unwrapping</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Various</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Wooly</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">X-factors of the</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Young country's</p></div>
<div align="left" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Zeitgeist.</p>
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</p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 3, 2021, 9:29 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">Jeff--<br>
<br>
Wonderfully evocative!<br>
<br>
Thank you.<br>
<br>
:- Doug.<br>
<br>
On 2/3/21 1:15 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList wrote:<br>
> Rockport (a poem)<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> When crossing open space<br>
> <br>
> Use the edges of your eyes.<br>
> <br>
> The old ones say that golden keys<br>
> <br>
> Rest under the smallest stones,<br>
> <br>
> Cared for by guards, who know<br>
> <br>
> The secrets of shoes.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 9:26 AM doug 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>
> Paul--<br>
> <br>
> 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>
> <br>
> 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><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><br>
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> > 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>
> >> <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><br>
> >> <mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>
> <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>
> >> <<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>><br>
> >> <mailto:<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>
> <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<br>
> led me<br>
> >> on a good journey last night. Some of the jewels I found<br>
> 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<br>
> "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<br>
> 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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