Jeff--
Wonderfully evocative!
Thank you.
:- Doug.
On 2/3/21 1:15 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList wrote:
Rockport (a poem)
When crossing open space
Use the edges of your eyes.
The old ones say that golden keys
Rest under the smallest stones,
Cared for by guards, who know
The secrets of shoes.
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 9:26 AM doug via OSList
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Paul--
I love to see your poetry when it pops up on oslist from time to time.
It is evocative for me. Thank you.
:- Doug.
On 1/30/21 8:43 AM, paul levy via OSList wrote:
> Opening Space
>
> In this place there are only tones.
> No bodily function yet movement
> From thought that flexes
> Non-existent muscles.
>
> There are no nouns, only verb
> Upon verb, Like fields and valleys,
> The language spoken by
> The dead, who have cast off all nouns
> Is a landscape uttered here.
>
> There are harmonics and rising pitch
> That discords as pain, and accords
> As love.
>
> In this place there is only tone.
> There is communion in notes with a
> Melody of Meaning and it is possible
> To touch another with the intention
> Of a healing song.
>
> Into this place, I unfold my wings of sound-borne light.
>
>
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, 11:48 Romy Shovelton via OSList,
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> wrote:
>
> Absolutely LOVING this Open Space poetry !! Thanks everyone…..
>
> I can see a new way to being the Opening Circle !! 😀
>
> Romy
>
>
>
>
>> On 30 Jan 2021, at 02:54, lucia pavia Ticzon via OSList
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>>
>> 🎉
>>
>> Xcept if you get this far it’s sometimes trouble. Or
>>
>> Yehey! Now i / we all can
>> Z zzzzz.
>>
>>
>> Love’t Thanks be!
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 2:31 AM Jeff Aitken via OSList
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>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Poems of open space! With a convenor naming a poetic
"form" to
>> follow for that round of celebration.
>>
>> Here is one, in the form of three stanzas of haiku.
>>
>>
>> huge pens and newsprint
>>
>> like twigs and leaves on the floor:
>>
>> fall forest clearing.
>>
>>
>>
>> wall like wide canvas
>>
>> bare, primed, awaiting fresh strokes
>>
>> painted by our hearts.
>>
>>
>>
>> circle of welcome,
>>
>> like setting an old table
>>
>> for neighbors and friends.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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...)
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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