Teresa! Fantastic! (Teresa and I have just finished working together for the first time, co-hosting a four day Art of Hosting training with Tennesonn Woolf and Brenda Chaddock).
I laugh robustly at the synchronicity of it all! Chris On 9/24/06, Lisa Heft <lisah...@openingspace.net> wrote:
Hello, dear friends and colleagues – *I am delighted to announce our new **Poet Laureate**…* Stickie-dots flow into my Inbox like many-colored butterflies To land on… …her magic words. Must be nectar there… *Ms. Teresa Posakony* is the writer of poem #3, "Diving Deep", and the new Poet Laureate of our OSLIST community. Teresa will hold this title for the next six months or so, holding space for poetry on the list by inviting, noticing, inspiring, offering poetry…whatever is her unique way. And at the end of that six months or so she will host another restricted form poetry contest …and so the tradition continues. I am honored to pass the tiara to Teresa. Wear it in good health (and you'll look so stylish, too!), with my warm wishes and congratulations. Here again are the three amazing poems, and now, the talented, thoughtful mystery poets will be revealed. What a wonderful thing to have people like you in our world… ________________________________________ *#1* the symbols ring the voices sing the space opens my heart follows the day unfolds ... behold! * -- by Kerry Napuk (Edinburgh, Scotland)* ________________________________________ *#2* The sense of things I have seen the texture of space felt the sound of silence, falling in a wide open offering tasted hesitancy and the sweetness of light touching time we sense into the most astonishing places together, you and I into the tight cracking of possibility screaming for release we let the humour of despair rest on our tongues, choke our eyes with tears and scour our nostrils with tendrils of acrid smoke. we walk together in circles dizzy with the sensation of silent music anxious that the soft holding be strong enough to withstand the wails of pain and joy that accompany liberation I have seen the music of leadership arise to dance with chaos; watched the bitterness of hunger fade into the dark recesses of the palette; heard the smooth and cool surface of flow course through networks of veins; tasted the colour of peace: its pure yellow flavour flecked with crimson notes; smelled the birth of worlds and the shifting of lives; in ever opening space. * -- by Chris Corrigan (Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada)* ________________________________________ *#3* Diving Deep Diving Deep Are you ready? No I mean… Are you READY? The time is now Hold my hand Together we dive Into the river of heart and soul The water is deep and quick All there is to do is trust the flow Struggling makes no sense though We don't know where the river goes The choice is clear Ready Set Wait a minute Let me catch my breath Go. * -- by Teresa Posakony (Seattle, Washington, USA)* ___________________________ * * * * * * * * * * * * Thank you, Chris, Kerry and Teresa for sharing your gifts with us, Lisa ___________________________ * * *L i s a H e f t* Consultant, Facilitator, Educator O p e n i n g S p a c e lisah...@openingspace.net www.openingspace.net * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
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