savor

savor This Pilgrimage
we have no perfection…
Paradise!

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

Peggy and I braved January cold winds to face YUPO en plein air in Lincoln Park.

My damn model wouldn't hold still.

mostly

Mostly,
I can read with pleasure
all sorts of perfectly
Sentimental Poetry.

This is not Self Improvement.

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

the key

The Key is
to speak Poems
which entertain guests

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Well, no one ever said the OED boys haven't done their research. Today's word of the day is 'netop,' which meant 'friend'... if you happened to be speaking pidgin Algonquin in the 17th century

Small wonder the OED runs to 20 volumes.

fool

It is the rare Fool
who has become successful
with an easily aroused temper

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This is post #499. I sincerely hope tomorrow's OED word of the day for the poem | commentary is a lot more interesting than 'plugger.'

a Lady as a mentor

in memoriam
Inez Taylor McDowell
(1918-2011)

a lifetime in grace
O Friend I know
There are huge improvements to be made
a great deal of understanding and learning

She did all that
Blessed the whole

Love is the best gift
a Listener,
able to open a person

a Lady as a mentor

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

hardly dry

hardly dry,
a January week-end
would come to Heal
an unwanted need

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'fixer-upper.'

Rebellion

Give me Sketches and Poems
filled with Life
The sunlight all whisky-gold
by mid afternoon.

Life
a Silent Revolution spent
on what one believes in.

Shaking heads,
what could you expect*

the Official guarantee
that nobody knows
what is going on.

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The OED word of the day is for the erasure poem is 'whisky|whiskey.'

the unknown

the unknown

found by observation
steering by Memories
& resistance to the easy
squeezing out the faint smell of the well-known

vaguely defined stresses
present in the absence
of Plasticity in life
sometimes cause
our circuit to trip

The plot can work in a variety of ways.
The solution is in the present
that is alone knowable

The responsibilities remain with The Observer

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

listening Back

I am happiest when making a perfect day

(lately) I grab the past
I believe in

Right now I am listening Back

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Today's post is from a different source. I got tagged, and rather than make the requested list, I have made an erasure poem|commentary from hers.

Besides, it's too early for the OED and I'm certainly not going to revisit 'degranulate.'

patient nature

the patient
Nature of the infinite
is great

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

The Urban Sketchers were invited to sketch at a concert by Geoffrey Castle this afternoon at Music Works Northwest, a non-profit community music school in Bellevue. The music was fabulous, as were the tables! and tour provided by Celine, the Annual Fund Campaign chair.

a special place

as a kind of grateful Expression,
work Til poetry, if it please you,
Rhymes.

Paradise might not keep you out
since a Verse
woven in the breadth of Life
is Sacred

It is surprising how difficult it is


Don't get caught without plenty of new Poetry
because Age
(forget the patterns)
is a special place

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

the old days

the old days
seem peculiarly
appealing now,
difficult to recapture
that worldly assurance

Complicated: power

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'pre-code.'

ancient

ancient
but never old
full moon

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Just for the record, the OED word of the day is 'fax-back' - about as lacking in poetry as you can get when there's a full moon rising in a clear winter sky. So, I return to the poetical form of the culture cool enough to have moon-viewing parties and pavilions.

heavy stuff

to Paint In the heaven of elasticity,
or poetically yield to color
Nobody denies that Sensations influence style

quiet and sweet
was happily a change from Heavy Stuff

A patient Journey,
Presence mingled Spirit with faith
Poetry & Mysteries
in step

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

examination

in the devilish Examination of the whole,
I will stick to a few words in Poems
Discover what is present or,
artfully concealed, easy to escape

Faith, now perfect
almost beyond
the possibility of desire

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

joy

Joy
is always worth
the price of a reserved ticket

Whether smuggled in
out of turn,
it is not for me to say

nothing else about it matters.

I trust Laughter
& an easy affection for the sacred
which is in our Power,
even at this Distance,
to make out

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'reserved.' This collage was done today at Bauhaus Coffee with my fellow Seattle Urban Sketchers, always a treat.

loud thoughts

Let me live loud thoughts
with Strong long roots
in Poems and
With Love And compassion
express something
In true plain words
To soothe
with imagination and reverence

I feel to be of the same mind with Life on this point.

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

ragged text

a Journal
with a Philosophical ragged text

It is particularly difficult
to be expressive because
so many things
are so new

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

Like apoptosis yesterday, this is another word that Google presumes to be a typo. Just saying, Oxford boys...

falling petals

falling petals from flowers,
Nature silent

in the middle of resolution,
relaxation
self-growth

We're not interested
in looking for ways
to keep limping along

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

rare sight

bow in reverence
to the rare sight

touch the Night

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is (the verb) 'knee.'

Snow in Seattle last night, blowing sideways.

disorderly spirits

disorderly raised spirits of
the Heart break open …
Wild Flowers

touch.
sit.
Listen to
the earth’s stories.

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

the sun

if I doubt
If I fail
…the Sun

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'spider-catcher.'

Life

Life
that great Festival
of our present moment

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

smoothly downwind

there is not
a simple path
smoothly Downwind
at the control
of the driver

It is possible
to become free
but i still wait
for a kind of
Gold Mine
of strength

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

happy people

happy people
rarely
fill the void
believing that success
would be Free

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

this glory

This glory
(as I may call it),
what a spirit!

Nothing was visible
but clouds and salt water,
Something of a Secret
soft and Melancholy
Elixation we keep

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

the art of contentment

We rejoiced
in The Art of
Contentment

That thing
which has caused
A ripple
of laughter

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

rare originals

Now rare
our Originals with
a distinct character woven into
Daily good Times

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

I was thinking that at the end of a year the media lists all the people we've lost, but usually not the places.

RIP Alki Bakery

winter sunset

winter sunset
king salmon swimming across
the horizon

conjecture

My conjecture is
that there is,
below the surface
of Time,
a continuous gift
that flows
hidden in My heart
more blest
than heart can tell

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

with a color

One might
dislocate the universe
with a color
in a Delicate-handed Poem

The Power
of The poet
to offer
the unthinkable

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