Dear Open Space friends and fellow practitioners,
Myself and a fellow Art of Hosting practitioner, Imran will be hosting a
poetry practice on Qiqo chat tomorrow (Friday 1st April) at 4.30pm BST /
5.30pm CEST / 8.30am PT / 9.30pm IST.
If you register on qiqo it will give you a time zone specific
LOVE this poetry…… What a community this is !!
Romy
Romy Shovelton
Executive Director
Wikima and the 5* Tyddyn Retreat
Mid Wales Venue & Holiday Cottages
> On 11 Feb 2021, at 19:45, Jeff Aitken via OSList
> wrote:
>
> Americausa the
>
> Beautiful
>
> Could
ur 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
shoes.
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021, 9:26 AM doug via OSList
mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>>
wrote:
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
> 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.
> >
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
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, 11:48 Romy Shovelton via OSList, <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> 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,
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
> wrote:
>
> 🎉
>
> Xcept if you get this far it’s sometimes trouble. Or
>
> Y
; deZire.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 10:12 AM Jeff Aitken
> wrote:
>
> 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&
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.
>
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 celebra
Xperience if
You so
deZire.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021, 10:12 AM Jeff Aitken wrote:
> 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 li
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"
Space? Thanks for offering it as a prize for being selected!
>
> Thanks to all who composed poems and all who participated (by reading, by
> voting) in our celebration and contest.
>
> Below are the poems with their author's names unless they asked to be
> anonymous.
>
>
Dear Chris, Jeff, Lisa and the rest who voted and all of those who shared a poem
Thank you very much for selecting my poemThank you Jeff for organising this
poetry contestIt is always a pleasure to moo...
Chris my address is: 2049A M. Layug Street, San Miguel Village, Poblacion,
Makati
C o N g R a T u L a T i O n S, Carmella, and a warm thank you to all of you
creative and thoughtful Open Space poets,
Lisa
Lisa Heft
Consultant, Facilitator, Educator
Opening Space
> On Jul 1, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList
> wrote:
>
> Carmela Ariza is our new Poet Laureate of the
y
> voting) in our celebration and contest.
>
> Below are the poems with their author's names unless they asked to be
> anonymous.
>
> May reading, hearing, writing, and speaking poetry enhance our lives in Open
> Space!
>
> 1: Tenneson Woolf
>
> It wa
participated (by reading, by
voting) in our celebration and contest.
Below are the poems with their author's names unless they asked to be
anonymous.
May reading, hearing, writing, and speaking poetry enhance our lives in
Open Space!
1: Tenneson Woolf
It was obvious there was pain.
Feelings
Aitken" wrote:
> Read these poems! Love these poems. Vote for these poems! By June 30.
>
> (I hope this fixed the format)
>
> The semiannual OSLIST Limited Form Poetry Contest begins now! We have 11
> entries in the contest below.
>
> As a member of oslist you hav
ive votes for one poem, or distribute
> them to two poems, or as many as five poems, as you wish.
>
> Enjoy the poetry!
> On Jun 23, 2016 10:28 AM, "Jeff Aitken" wrote:
>
> Read these poems! Love these poems. Vote for these poems! By June 30.
>
> (I hope this fixe
te for these poems! By June 30.
>
> (I hope this fixed the format)
>
> The semiannual OSLIST Limited Form Poetry Contest begins now! We have 11
> entries in the contest below.
>
> As a member of oslist you have five votes or "virtual sticky dots" to use.
> Pleas
Yes to be clear: you may use your five votes for one poem, or distribute
them to two poems, or as many as five poems, as you wish.
Enjoy the poetry!
On Jun 23, 2016 10:28 AM, "Jeff Aitken" wrote:
Read these poems! Love these poems. Vote for these poems! By June 30.
(I hope this
Read these poems! Love these poems. Vote for these poems! By June 30.
(I hope this fixed the format)
The semiannual OSLIST Limited Form Poetry Contest begins now! We have 11
entries in the contest below.
As a member of oslist you have five votes or "virtual sticky dots" to use.
Pleas
WAIT please - I'm going to fix the formatting! And send this again.
Jeff
On Jun 23, 2016 10:17 AM, "Jeff Aitken" wrote:
> Read these poems! Love these poems. Vote for these poems! By June 30.
>
> The semiannual OSLIST Limited Form Poetry Contest begins now! We have 11
Read these poems! Love these poems. Vote for these poems! By June 30.
The semiannual OSLIST Limited Form Poetry Contest begins now! We have 11
entries in the contest below.
As a member of oslist you have five votes or "virtual sticky dots" to use.
Please reply TO ME only - NOT the o
"Jeff Aitken" wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> It's time to try poetry on the oslist again.
>
> Harrison's first book about open space was NOT about the methodology. It
> was about the ways that people change their view of themselves and the
> world.
>
>
Sent: Monday, 13 June 2016, 14:19
Subject: Re: [OSList] OSLIST Poetry Celebration thru June 21
Wenn ich sein kannwer ich binkann ich werdenwer ich sein kann
When I can bewho I amI can becomeWho I can be
Rolf
Am 11.06.2016/ Kw23 um 19:12 schrieb Jeff Aitken via OSList
:
Thank you dear Lisa
iends,
It's time to try poetry on the oslist again.
Harrison's first book about open space was NOT about the methodology. It was
about the ways that people change their view of themselves and the world.
He said we can "cross the open space" - from one understanding of ourselves an
Thank you dear Lisa! Can't wait to see you this week.
Folks, here is the invitation again.
Dear friends,
It's time to try poetry on the oslist again.
Harrison's first book about open space was NOT about the methodology. It
was about the ways that people change their view of the
Oh Jeff I love you so much … (so much that I say it out loud, in front of
everyone in this lovely big circle)….
Lisa
> On Jun 11, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList
> wrote:
>
> You may notice that I like writing poems. Whether or nor they are 'good'
> poems doesn't matter so much.
>
You may notice that I like writing poems. Whether or nor they are 'good'
poems doesn't matter so much.
I invite you to write one! About this topic we love so much.
Here's a poem about writing a poem:
Anyone can write a poem
By opening two red doors.
Capture a moment that opened your heart:
Descr
When crossing open space
Feel the belly find the way.
The mind takes notes and
Later, tells a likely story.
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Oh i see
It isn't me.
Really truly
He was right.
Walk the circle
Speak the words
Let it go
Watch them work.
And the circle
At the end
Is full of thanks.
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To unsubscribe send an e
ist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> It's time to try poetry on the oslist again.
>
> Harrison's first book about open space was NOT about the methodology. It
> was about the ways that people change their view of themselves and the
> world.
>
> He sa
Sleepless and I got one poetry
圍圓坐 sit around circle
相視識. Look to know each other
取紙筆 take pen n paper
述題旨 describe your theme
選時空 choose a space n time
召人議 invite people to discuss
蜂採蜜 bees keep busy
蝶翩舞 butterfly dances
此即時 now is right time
隨心聚 gather with your heart
終亦始 end is also start
It was obvious there was pain.
Feelings hurt. Wounds infected.
Hopes, dwindling relentlessly over the horizon called “not today.”
It was the story underneath, finally excavated,
that began to change everything.
> On Jun 8, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList
> wrote:
>
>
> Sun dagger
Sun dagger pierced the Chaco cave
And turned my head and world around.
When rush hour traffic drags me back
I know why Hebrews, desert crossers,
Kiss our story, nailed near the door.
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Rockport (a poem)
When crossing open space
Watch the corners of your eyes.
The old ones say that golden keys
Rest under the smallest stones,
Cared for by security guards
Who know the secrets of shoes.
Jeff Aitken
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Sent: Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 21:37
Subject: Re: [OSList] OSLIST Poetry Celebration thru June 21
Muhammad Ali, whose life many people are celebrating this week, composed a poem
about changing our view. It is also the shortest poem ever:Me
We
Muhammad Ali, whose life many people are celebrating this week, composed a
poem about changing our view. It is also the shortest poem ever:
Me
We
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Dear friends,
It's time to try poetry on the oslist again.
Harrison's first book about open space was NOT about the methodology. It
was about the ways that people change their view of themselves and the
world.
He said we can "cross the open space" - from one understanding
Dear Colleagues -
The OSLIST Poetry Contest is open once again! If you feel so inspired,
please create an original poem using these three guidelines:
1) The poem is about Open Space
2) The poem consists of 8 lines or less.
3) The poem contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet (or all the
Found a precedent for the open space of poetry ~ (with a shoutout to dear
departed Ralph Copleman, a true poet of ost and originator of the poetry
contest):
"*Open Space* takes its name, and spirit, from a small but influential Bay
Area poetry magazine
<http://mimeomimeo.blogspot.com
s.openspacetech.org
> Subject: [OSList] The OS T.H.I.R.T.Y. Poetry Challenge & Invitation
> From: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
>
> By the power invested in me as the Mid-2015 Open Space Community Poet
Laureate,
>...and in honor of the 30th anniversary of Open Spac
ction
Trust what will be
You are open space
--
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 23:18:05 -0400
To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
Subject: [OSList] The OS T.H.I.R.T.Y. Poetry Challenge & Invitation
From: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
*By the power invested in me as the Mid-
18:05 -0400
> To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
> Subject: [OSList] The OS T.H.I.R.T.Y. Poetry Challenge & Invitation
> From: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
>
> By the power invested in me as the Mid-2015 Open Space Community Poet
> Laureate,
>...and in honor of the 30th anni
Tempting invitation
Hail passion
Inspiration flourishes
Ready for action
Trust what will be
You are open space
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 23:18:05 -0400
To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org
Subject: [OSList] The OS T.H.I.R.T.Y. Poetry Challenge & Invitation
From: os
*By the power invested in me as the Mid-2015 Open Space Community Poet
Laureate, *
* ...and in honor of the 30th anniversary of Open Space Technology,*
* ...I am hereby declaring the start of the Open Space T.H.I.R.T.Y.
Poetry Challenge & Invitation.*
The way to participate is si
Less is Sometimes More - Poetry Contest Spring 2015
Here is a reminder for those of you who wish to indicate your selection(s) -
the time for me to receive your dots ends at midnight tonight, wherever you are
in the world.
___
You have 5 virtual sticky dots to ‘spend’ on the items below, to
Am 12.05.2015 um 00:43 schrieb Lisa Heft - via OSList:
> Less is Sometimes More - Poetry Contest Spring 2015
>
Five participants and five dots.
There seems to be a missunderstanding,
that the less participants in the contest the more poetry will emerge ???
In the city of Bremen in G
Less is Sometimes More - Poetry Contest Spring 2015
First, the “haiku” shared by Agustin Jiménez, written by the late Bruce Lee:
When one has no forms,
one can be all forms,
when one has no style,
one can fit with any style.
___
And now on to our Poetry Contest.
___
You have 5 virtual
For some of you, midnight Thursday has passed. For some of you, there are still
a few hours remaining, if you would like to submit a haiku to the Poetry
Contest…
Lisa
>
> ___see below for more about this invitation_
>
> The Spring 2015 OSLIST Restricted Form Po
Poetry contest.
Don’t have to be “a poet”.
Try it - discover.
There. A haiku (five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables) to remind you
to discover yourself a poet by writing a haiku about...
sometimes less is more, when Open Space is used
…and email me directly with your poetry.
I
and thanks to both for putting poetry and David Whyte back in the list - and
reminding me that I need to re-invigorate the OSList Poet Laureate process!
Let's get going again? Are you up for putting some poems in?!
I hope so!
so here is my previous email and with new dates:
I now
Dear Open Space Colleagues,
I now re-open the OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest!
Whoever feels so inspired - I invite you to create some original poetry with
two aspects:
should be about Open Space Technologyand
evocative of the Emptiness/Awareness/Oneness/Space/Consciousness within
Thanks, Jonathan. And folks - you have a total of 5 virtual sticky dots.
As if each poem were a piece of paper and you were 'spending' your 5
dots by placing one or more on whatever poem speaks to your heart.
And remember that poets can also vote, even for their own poems.
Lisa
On Jun 7, 2013
:33 -0700
Subject: [OSList] Reminder: Poetry Contest Spring 2013 - cast your dots until
midnight June 7
Here is your reminder to cast your virtual dots before midnight on Friday June
7, wherever you live...
From: Lisa Heft Date: May 28, 2013 9:05:54 PM PDTTo:
OSLIST Subject: Poetry Contest
Here is your reminder to cast your virtual dots before midnight on
Friday June 7, wherever you live...
From: Lisa Heft
Date: May 28, 2013 9:05:54 PM PDT
To: OSLIST
Subject: Poetry Contest Spring 2013 - cast...your...dots...until
midnight June 7
And now, with excitement, dear readers, I
And now, with excitement, dear readers, I offer you the entries in the
Spring 2013 OSLIST Poetry Contest!
As it is traditionally an invitation for poetry about or inspired by
Open Space - plus a recommendation about form or content (‘restricted
form poetry’), this particular contest
Hello, dear colleagues -
The OSLIST Poetry Contest closes at midnight May 24 (today) - midnight
meaning wherever you are in the world...
Still time for a few poems to float into my in-box (send directly to lisah...@openingspace.net
) - and stay tuned for some lovely poetry for you to all to
And, because so many creative things are floating around - face-to-
face, virtually or otherwise about Open Space, I remind you that the
OSLIST Poetry Contest is still open.
See below.
Some lovely poems are floating into my inbox...
Lisa
From: Lisa Heft
Date: May 8, 2013 12:42:30 PM PDT
Dear Colleagues -
Doug's recent poem inspires me to say...
I now re-open the OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest !
Restricted Form means some described form or boundary for the poem.
Whoever feels so inspired - I invite you to create some original
poetry with two guidelines:
about
On Behalf Of *Lisa Heft
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:20 PM
> *To:* OSLIST
> *Subject:* [OSList] Poetry Contest - the poets, revealed
>
> ** **
>
> And now - all the poetry that inspired and invited in this season's
> sharing.
>
> Such a richness of im
21 February 2012 12:20 PM
To: OSLIST
Subject: [OSList] Poetry Contest - the poets, revealed
And now - all the poetry that inspired and invited in this season's sharing.
Such a richness of imagery, reflection and creativity.
>From across the world, and for some of these poets - creatin
>
> I am reminded again and again that when the topics start to appear on the
> wall, that hesitancy and fear rapidly disappears perhaps replaced by what I
> imagine the "Oh my! Oh my!" could mean... sheer delight
>
> Bravo all!
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 20
rs perhaps replaced by what I
imagine the "Oh my! Oh my!" could mean... sheer delight
Bravo all!
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Lisa Heft wrote:
> And now - all the poetry that inspired and invited in this season's
> sharing.
> Such a richness of imagery, reflection
And now - all the poetry that inspired and invited in this season's
sharing.
Such a richness of imagery, reflection and creativity.
From across the world, and for some of these poets - creating
beautiful language in a language that is not their mother tongue.
We are so lucky to hav
in Taipei.
>
> Go well
>
> Risk everything
>
> Love
>
> Alan
>
> On 17 February 2012 05:13, Lisa Heft wrote:
>
>> Hello, dear colleagues -
>> The poetry has floated in - and now it is time to vote to see who our
>> next OSLIST Poet Laureate will be.
Hello, all - Some of you are asleep and some of you are awake as I
write this to you, my friends all over the world.
For some of you, there is still time to send in your votes for your
favorite poems.
You others could actually slip in an email to me while *I* sleep
tonight so I see it on *m
Thanks, Alan - and how kind of you...
Lisa
On Feb 16, 2012, at 8:18 PM, a...@alanhalford.com.au wrote:
Hi Lisa,
Poem 1 4 virtual stickies
Poem 10 1 virtual stiicky
Convenor of competition 16 virtual stickies
alan
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Oh boy.I love surprises J
From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org
[mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Lisa Heft
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:00 PM
To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
Subject: Re: [OSList] Open Space Poetry Contest - time to
r please notify the sender.
On 17/02/2012, at 2:43 AM, Lisa Heft wrote:
Hello, dear colleagues -
The poetry has floated in - and now it is time to vote to see who our next
OSLIST Poet Laureate will be.
These are all amazing poems. So you could have several favorites.
It is not as if one
Feel free, all - to send your votes directly to me at lisah...@openingspace.net
You can also post them here but I'm happy to collect them directly and
give you all a surprise next week...
Lisa
On Feb 16, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Lisa Heft wrote:
Fabulous. Thank you, Ms. Anne, and cheers from a sta
Fabulous. Thank you, Ms. Anne, and cheers from a starry evening in
California,
Lisa
On Feb 16, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Anne A Hiha wrote:
Hi Lisa
Poem 6 - 3 virtual sticky dots
Poem 10 - 2 virtual sticky dots
Regards
Anne
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T
Hi Lisa
Poem 6 - 3 virtual sticky dots
Poem 10 - 2 virtual sticky dots
Regards
Anne
From: lisah...@openingspace.net
To: OSList@lists.openspacetech.org
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:43:48 -0800
Subject: [OSList] Open Space Poetry Contest - time to vote
Hello, dear colleagues -The poetry has
Hello, dear colleagues -
The poetry has floated in - and now it is time to vote to see who our
next OSLIST Poet Laureate will be.
These are all amazing poems. So you could have several favorites.
It is not as if one poem is 'better' than the others - feel the
incredible imagery i
Hello, dear colleagues.
The nicest words have been floating into my Inbox. Poetry indeed.
It is evening for some of you, day for some of you.
I will be accepting your poetic contributions until the end of
February 15 - wherever that is for wherever you are located in the
world.
If you have
networks
> through servers
> into Lisa's Inbox
> onto Lisa's screen
> gathered and
> later to be shown back out to you.
>
> The Open Space Poetry Contest - your poetry about
> breathing
> trusting in the unknown
> emergence
> and Open Space
>
> .
: [OSList] Poetry contest
To: "World wide Open Space Technology email list"
Date: Monday, February 13, 2012, 2:46 AM
Beautiful poetry is coming into my in-box for the Poetry Contest.
Remember you do not have to consider yourself a poet - simply breathe and feel
how words may com
Beautiful poetry is coming into my in-box for the Poetry Contest.
Remember you do not have to consider yourself a poet - simply breathe
and feel how words may come together.
Somebody just asked me a question, and here is the answer:
Several people are sending me their poems directly without
> onto Lisa's screen
> gathered and
> later to be shown back out to you.
>
> The Open Space Poetry Contest - your poetry about
> breathing
> trusting in the unknown
> emergence
> and Open Space
>
> ...is still open.
>
> I will be collecting yo
gt; onto keyboards
> via cables
> up to satellites
> down to networks
> through servers
> into Lisa's Inbox
> onto Lisa's screen
> gathered and
> later to be shown back out to you.
>
> The Open Space Poetry Contest - your poetry about
> breathing
> trust
Dear all -
Thoughts into words
into hands
onto keyboards
via cables
up to satellites
down to networks
through servers
into Lisa's Inbox
onto Lisa's screen
gathered and
later to be shown back out to you.
The Open Space Poetry Contest - your poetry about
breathing
trusting in t
like to choose or
switch around to serve you in these times.
And to also serve you in these times, a good practice from Open Space:
Breathing.trusting in the unknownand emergence.
___
I now re-open the OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest.
Whoever feels so
Congratulations Chris :-)
Esther Matte
-Original Message-
From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Esther
Ewing
Sent: 17 juin 2010 6:45
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject: Re: Poetry contest results - new poet laureate
You deserve it, Chris. And I
Your Inspired
Poetry
lifts my heart
And gives it wings
To soar
The heaven of
Unexplainable joy
And understanding
Rooted in nowness
A bow to poet of The Open space year
Friendship rocks
Toke
Sendt fra min iPhone
Den 17/06/2010 kl. 14.22 skrev Chris Corrigan :
Wow...thank you all for the
Congratulations Chris
Grounded, playful, light and intense.
Regards
Anne
> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:39:00 -0400
> From: ewingcha...@gmail.com
> Subject: [OSLIST] Poetry contest results - new poet laureate
> To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
>
> Hi all:
>
> I ha
:22 PM
To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] Poetry contest results - new poet laureate
Wow...thank you all for the vote of confidence as your poet laureate. I
think it has been ten years since Ralph Copelman launched the first contest
(which I won). Since then it has been cool
What wonderful images and emotions! Thank you Chris for this gift that goes
straight to the heart.
Diane
On 2010-06-17, at 11:39 AM, Esther Ewing wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have the great pleasure to announce that the new Poet Laureate is Chris
> Corrigan with the following winning poem:
>
>
>
Hi all:
I have the great pleasure to announce that the new Poet Laureate is Chris
Corrigan with the following winning poem:
What far off thought
can come to rest in the company of friends?
What rooted promise
can take flight at the mere invocation of curiosity?
This circle describes,
Wow...thank you all for the vote of confidence as your poet laureate. I think
it has been ten years since Ralph Copelman launched the first contest (which I
won). Since then it has been cool to see the resiliency of the position. I
believe we are the only listerv with a Poet Laureate, and tha
Hi all:
A reminder that your votes need to be in by midnight Eastern time today.
Esther Ewing
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
-Original Message-
From: Michael M Pannwitz
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:57:07
To:
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] looking for action planning sheet
similar to th
Hi all:
So entries for the poetry contest are closed and we have some lovely
possibilities. You each have five sticky dots. Please email me off-list at
est...@ewingchange.com (copied above) and tell me your votes. The poems are
numbered and all you need to do is assign your votes by number, for
nd we walk into a new landscape. we are the same people, forever
changed.
(updated version)
jeff aitkenmount tamalpais
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 00:25:04 -0400
> From: ewingcha...@gmail.com
> Subject: [OSLIST] FW: OSLIST poetry contest
> To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
>
> D
What far off thought
can come to rest in the company of friends?
What rooted promise
can take flight at the mere invocation of curiosity?
This circle describes,
an energetic inscription
a container that is itself a call,
that draws forth the needed salve.
There is the sweet dance of the heart
waits at the door to wish us well, and we walk into a new
landscape. we are the same people, forever changed.
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 00:25:04 -0400
> From: ewingcha...@gmail.com
> Subject: [OSLIST] FW: OSLIST poetry contest
> To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu
>
> Dear a
Dear all:
This is a reminder that the OSLIST poetry contest is in running with a
deadline of May 31st - for more details and the instructions, see below.
So far, I have received a couple of poems. Please send as per the
instructions below.
Best regards
Esther Ewing
From: Esther Ewing
Great OSLIST Poetry Contest
Greetings all:
Once again it is time for the Poet Laureate (me, this time) to issue an
invitation to all to participate in the Great OSLIST Poetry Contest. As the
current (and very outgoing - grin) Poet Laureate, it falls to me to extend
the invitation.
As
congratulations Esther!! look forward to more poetry...I like the idea of music!
- Original Message -
From: Esther Ewing
Date: Monday, August 24, 2009 6:23 pm
Subject: Re: [OSLIST] OSLIST POETRY CELEBRATION AND CONTEST: August 2009 - New
Poet Laureate
To: osl
a deep bow to you!
It is my pleasure to place the virtual laurel upon your head and wish you well
in OSLIST poetry for the next 6 months or so.
Enjoy your reign!
The sticky dot mountain measurements are available on request.
Here are the poems again, below, with the authors' names attac
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