Imaginary Conversations

obey all who would be messengers

children at the door

Imaginary Conversations,
when only the spirits appear

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'apparitor.'

Happy Halloween!

shadows

Sunrise shadows
sparkling cold dug up
personal weaknesses

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'ghoulish'.

skeletal

Halloween weekend —
golden leaves hanging on
skeletal frames

my grasp relaxed

the flow of Art
through every pore in Nature
when my grasp relaxed

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The OED word of the day for the erasure haiku is, ironically, 'regurgitate.'

curtain call

the mountain
taking one last curtain call
to end the season

alchemy of October

sun and rain perfectly joined
the Alchemy of October

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Today's OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'consume.'

good flowers

Faith
is a morning and an evening
in which GOOD,
distinguished by its peculiar complexity,
flowers.

Sometimes in contemplation of
the swiftness of This Life
I Paint pictures.

I am primed for a spirited game.

Come, get ready.

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'duplicate.'

mad joy

art
This mad joy
and Poems
delight

I stand
in The expression of Fall
Making this day a song

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'dole, dool, dule.' Actually, why stop with just those spellings. Most of the citations are over 500 years old, and include deol, duelle, dol... well, you get the idea. And none relate to 'dole' as currently understood; it's all about mental distress. Sometimes this is a lot more about 'mad' than 'joy.' :)

dreams entangled

Today's OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'collide.'

Finally getting some autumn color, along with the first big storm of the season.


dreams come together
(without conflict)
passions
 e
  n
   t
  a
 n
  g
   l
    e
  d

I have to do what I know now

as if it were an everyday occurrence
we race through a beloved spot of loveliness

Mornings
nourishing and strengthening and
Painting and finding hope

present

Our purpose is solely to try our best
Having your work occasionally rejected is not a bad thing

I have to do what I know now

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'review.'

moonstruck

Moonstruck
beside the Stillwater —
dahlia garden

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Moonstruck and Stillwater are two of the many types of dahlias in the Volunteer Park Dahlia Garden I saw today. An oil painter was doing a good job of capturing this showy garden.

messenger

a Star
The first messenger
is just now arrived,

Drawn by my Night-walker Muse
awakened by the
sudden GOOD sense
to draw

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'postilion,' now "chiefly historical" you'll be stunned to hear.

October

October...
the peculiar flavor of
fading Treasures

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The OED word of the day for the erasure haiku is 'flatness.'

this odyssey

I saw the light
dropp'd woes awhile
This Odyssey
near drowned In Joy

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'upraise.'

Real groovy

excitement
summons the words to dance…
each old dancer takes her part.

in traditional style,
the afternoon was born in jazz.

Real groovy is indigenous.

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'malombo.' Yeah, that triggered the spell checker. It's a Venda rite of exorcism and healing, in case you were wondering.

the starry stream

60...
(in child's Time
some Stone age)

springing from and encircling
A flower in a spiral shell,
what a lovely shell,

With delicate heart,
patterns coil, curl,
against the open mouth of a Monster,
rising up between
successive whorls of the starry stream.

Vast clouds roll in heavy before the wind
drawn to the stars
in patterns too intricate for our eyes

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The Seattle UrbanSketchers met in the International District for today's worldwide sketch crawl, where I did this sketch of the pavilion in Hing Hay Park. A pair of elderly men were practicing qi gong to music, which provided a wonderful ambiance.

The OED word of the day for today's erasure poem is 'whorl.'

october —
golden pears wobble
on the windowsill

spider webs

mid-October
half the spider webs
are man-made

the first star

Evening...
the first Star demanding
We smile

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The OED word (sorry, Jeffrey) of the day for the erasure poem is 'privy seal.

"Privy seal"? Sometimes the OED is sooooo Oxonian :)

why not again?

the fresh canvas on the easel

Flying once: why not again?


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After offering up the entirely useless 'skatathon' and 'home invader' for the last two days, the Oxford English Dictionary dudes finally came through with 'hide' as today's word of the day, the basis for this poem|commentary.

startled

an autumn leaf
blown smack into my chest
startles me present

101010

101010
is binary 42,
the Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life,
the Universe and Everything*

Or a good rainy Sunday for a Woody Allen movie.

___________________
*per The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Upstarts!

Classic Western Stories

Upstarts!..

like American Speech
good Fighting Talk was
big and unwieldy.

Others were—
you know the sort of thing.

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The OED word of the day for today's erasure poem|commentary is yet another in a string of bizarre obsolete words: potwalloper. Really, the OED dudes are NOT giving me a lot to work with! :)

scrapbook

some carry
as Atlas
a whole world
without fainting on the road;
take home a full fat view.

While I go about begging
(good for nothin' now)
invitations To Scrap Book a Past.

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'cadge.'

likin' lichens

belief
is the mind's
suspension of judgment,

in order to
know life

and view
the RUNES
of one's consciousness

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'epoché.'

success

success,
expressed through our
American Mythologies
was amazing B S

focus on art
more available
with a lot less noise

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'sell-through.'

be bold

be bold

Love With imagination

And not so much Drama

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Today's obsolete OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'misdeem.'

Night Poems

the Night Poems

Dream of a sweet
place on earth

a love token
From Life

glad...for now…to be
in this together.

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'spouse.'

the hunter

nature and Hunter
met on this island morning

I saw bright red

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'varicose.'

caught

afternoon sunbeams
caught in spiders' webs...
and vice versa

smooth jazz

October.
For the moment dry and smooth,
like my favorite Jazz.

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For no apparent reason, the OED word of the day for the erasure poem is Kalamata.