2011.01.09 19:00 - Poeta Nascitur? Fit?

The Guardian for this meeting was Calvino Rabeni. The comments are by Calvino Rabeni.

Poeta Nascitur - http://www.jstor.org/pss/2707023

In which the Guardians of Play as Being dive into the Pool of Being and emerge, shaken but poetic.

oO0Oo Resident: Hi Cal
Calvino Rabeni: Good Evening o !
Calvino Rabeni calls out across the pond
Calvino Rabeni: Shall we start with a meditation ... or just start talking like we were continuing where we left off earlier ...?
oO0Oo Resident: the pond ripples, a thousand million causative motions are set into motion. Somewhere in time and space, the sedges at the pond's edge move, and a frog jumps into the water. There is no telling really...
oO0Oo Resident: either way Cal
Calvino Rabeni: Ah, meditation then.. perhaps to find the place from which Poetry arises :)
oO0Oo Resident: OK
Calvino Rabeni: Or where poetry savors the events of the day, seeking their internal wild voices
oO0Oo Resident: all is shimmering, nothing is wasted, everything tastes everything, wildness speaks soothingly to tameness, and both dangle their toes in the water playfully
--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni: Listening for the true voice in which something speaks
Calvino Rabeni: with a twinkle in its eye
Calvino Rabeni: that sees each object standing alongside leaning one elbow on its own audacity
--BELL--

Calvino Rabeni: He replaced yesterdays loaves, which we neither were hungry enough to eat, with nine-faceted jewels
Calvino Rabeni: One side showed He, another Me, and the third We
Calvino Rabeni: Were these jewels once bedded in some archaic Crown, I asked?
oO0Oo Resident: la pente glissante qui est oui!
oO0Oo Resident: Hi Liucinda
Calvino Rabeni: He spoke not ... and the jewels rotated slowly
Calvino Rabeni: Know This! He said
Lucinda Lavender: HI Samuo,Cal
Calvino Rabeni: Oh,Hello Cinda
oO0Oo Resident: discovering poetry Lucinda
Lucinda Lavender: please continue...
--BELL--

oO0Oo Resident: He said?
oO0Oo Resident: or he revealed the twinkling...
Calvino Rabeni: You will find the balance point on which the jewel teeters
Calvino Rabeni: Paradise Hello
Paradise Tennant: hiya o ... cal .. lucinda :) gtsy everyone :)
Lucinda Lavender: Hello Paradise
Calvino Rabeni: A Point of zero friction
Lucinda Lavender: discovering poetry
Paradise Tennant: smiles really like poetry :)
Calvino Rabeni: Each of the jewels is a Word
oO0Oo Resident: with out beginning or end
Calvino Rabeni: The twinkle is recognition
oO0Oo Resident: nothing to hold on to
Hana Furlough: oops sorry cal!
Hana Furlough: and hello all
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Hana
oO0Oo Resident: hi Hana
Calvino Rabeni: Hana's mirrored statements gleam
Paradise Tennant: hiya hana :)
Hana Furlough: :)
Lucinda Lavender: this poetry is just coming into being?
Calvino Rabeni: They hoped nor feared division by a common language
oO0Oo Resident: compassion's grace would seem
Paradise Tennant: smiles at the waves of rippling creativity flowing around her :)
Hana Furlough: the Way is in poetry and poetry is the Way, it seems
Hana Furlough: I don't know why everything I say comes in twos
Calvino Rabeni: all seemly and meet
Calvino Rabeni: all seemly and meet
oO0Oo Resident: nothings in the way
Hana Furlough: double smile
oO0Oo Resident: everything's in the wayless
Paradise Tennant: smiles twice back
Lucinda Lavender: everything intersects with grace
Calvino Rabeni: winks an I
Hana Furlough: I am THAT
oO0Oo Resident: Paradise smiles :)
Calvino Rabeni: Cal plunges abruptly to the bottom of the pool
Hana Furlough: When I smile, paradise smiles
Paradise Tennant: lol
--BELL--

oO0Oo Resident: the sage at the edge of the pool, considers the wavelets, and concludes... Rabeni... is at the heart of it all
Lucinda Lavender: in the water world...
Hana Furlough: nice!
Calvino Rabeni: Emerges shaking off pixel dust and droplets

Calvino Rabeni: The pool is bottomless
oO0Oo Resident: the loaves and fishes endless
Paradise Tennant: life is bottomless
Hana Furlough: ha!
Paradise Tennant: we could try to construct a poem each contribute a line :)
Paradise Tennant: use to do that with stories to go around the circle and each put in a paragraph
Hana Furlough: sounds good
Hana Furlough: let's do it
oO0Oo Resident: sure
Hana Furlough: who wants to start?
Paradise Tennant: are we doing a poem or a story ?

For unknown reasons, Hana's lines today are frequently doubled, like a blues singer's.

Hana Furlough: how about a poem?
Hana Furlough: how about a poem?
Paradise Tennant: ok
Paradise Tennant: i will start
oO0Oo Resident nods
oO0Oo Resident: lol

And so the poem / story begins.  For easier reading it is also repeated at the end, minus the hellos, goodbyes, and speaker names.

Paradise Tennant: Around the circle the moonlight reflected on faces still, absorbed .. touching understanding ..
Hana Furlough: (are we going in a circle?)
Paradise Tennant: yes
Paradise Tennant: which direction ?
oO0Oo Resident: clockwise OK?
Hana Furlough: (sounds good!)
Lucinda Lavender: and perhaps clarity.
oO0Oo Resident: expressed in the growth of smile lines at the corners of their eyes
Calvino Rabeni: like green growing shoots
--BELL--

Hana Furlough: asleep in a wisteria dream
Hana Furlough: asleep in a wisteria dream
Paradise Tennant: of vivid colour, shape, scent , texture, moving in a blur of time's trance
Lucinda Lavender: a sound came forth from this place...
oO0Oo Resident: the coo of lovers in stained glass embrace
Calvino Rabeni: the scented air quick upon their breath
Hana Furlough: is steam in its eternal rise
Paradise Tennant: hmm
Paradise Tennant: of love's trials and surpise ..
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: we weave a wreathe to hold ...for now and later
oO0Oo Resident: while barefooting upon obsidian and moss
Calvino Rabeni: ... out of the swamp lurched an Alligator!
Paradise Tennant: lol
Lucinda Lavender: :)
Hana Furlough: :)
oO0Oo Resident: :)
Hana Furlough: on that note, i need to run to get back to work
Hana Furlough: thank you all so much
Hana Furlough: let's do it again very soon
Paradise Tennant: lol take care hana :)
Hana Furlough: bye
Paradise Tennant: thank you :)
oO0Oo Resident: ty Hana!
Lucinda Lavender: :) bye hanah..good work to you:)
Lucinda Lavender: sorry hana
Paradise Tennant: hmm
oO0Oo Resident: In a while crocodile?
Paradise Tennant: with lightening speed it lunged teeth snapping ..
Lucinda Lavender: while from behind a man came trapping...
oO0Oo Resident: reminiscent of resident zapping!
Calvino Rabeni: and up leapt the Lovers from their napping!
stevenaia Michinaga: (sitting this poem out)
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: hmm
Paradise Tennant: they scrambled .. each pushing the other ahead .. to save their love and sacrifice their own self.. the alligator jaws wide .. was bemused and smiled... just a little smile with hardly any teeth showing
Lucinda Lavender: oh! Jungling, bungling and a certain amount of fumbling...they pressed on.
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: ll whispers good eve to all ...:) thans for this:)
Paradise Tennant: good nite lucinda dream well :)
oO0Oo Resident: ty Lucinda Bye.
Calvino Rabeni: :) CInda
Lucinda Lavender: :) same for all:)
Paradise Tennant: smiles I should go too the witching hour :) and I have an early morning . always want to stay up and always in the morning never really want to move :)
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles thank you :) will look forward to reading the ending .. hope the alligator finds peace .. love .. and spaciousness in that swamp :)
Calvino Rabeni: Thanks, fly well, Paradise
Paradise Tennant: namaste all
stevenaia Michinaga: I should get to sleep too
stevenaia Michinaga: night all
Calvino Rabeni: _/!\_
Calvino Rabeni: Stevenaia
oO0Oo Resident: perhaps I aswell . Thank you for your jewel like company
Calvino Rabeni: Yours too oO0Oo

* * *

Around the circle the moonlight reflected on faces still,
absorbed ..
touching understanding ..
and perhaps clarity.
expressed in the growth of smile lines at the corners of their eyes
like green growing shoots
asleep in a wisteria dream
asleep in a wisteria dream
of vivid colour, shape, scent , texture, moving in a blur of time's trance
a sound came forth from this place
the coo of lovers in stained glass embrace
the scented air quick upon their breath
is steam in its eternal rise
is steam in its eternal rise
of love's trials and surpise ..
we weave a wreathe to hold ...for now and later
while barefooting upon obsidian and moss
out of the swamp lurched an Alligator!
with lightening speed it lunged teeth snapping
while from behind a man came trapping
reminiscent of resident zapping!
and up leapt the Lovers from their napping!
they scrambled .. each pushing the other ahead
to save their love and sacrifice their own self
the alligator jaws wide .. was bemused and smiled
just a little smile with hardly any teeth showing
oh! Jungling, bungling and a certain amount of fumbling...they pressed on.
"Friends, Wait!"
The Lovers stared
at what the Trapping Man had snared
"You've lost your Pet!"
The Lovers' fearful gaze gave way to smiles
as little Lizard's Plays become their Wiles
and Play they yet.