désolée

Raoul Dufy's "Baie des Anges" will have to be a placeholder as "Le Pomme," the apple computer in my Nice apt., has greeted my memory card reader with a Gallic shrug and refused to recognize it.

Alors, the blog is now on hiatus... 

Nice

Poetical
hospitable
nice.

Time drifted past
with impudent ease

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

a single bloom

mid-february —
a single forsythia bloom
lights up the world

growth

the Nature of growth
is to be therapeutic

a test that's customized

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'non-invasive.'

security

Security may be
the promise
to honor a pledge

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

balm

A Masterpiece
of Balm …

love tenderly,
with out Precautions

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"Heart-strings" is the word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary from those romantic lads in Oxford.

I love finding out that 500 years ago heart-strings were believed to be an actual part of our anatomy!

with one eye

with one eye
on the Daily
Comedies & Tragedies

Take A Life & examine it
and so be in a position
to thwart a bad day

this means trying harder

no one
seems to have offered
a Golden Age

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

switched-on

Life
waking up at dawn
the flow a Daily Sharing
the current switched-on

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

wait civilly

Effective post —
I take it to be a Skill to wait civilly
which is a bore,

Time duly passed

a prayer,
a little hit or miss

I am still
burning with desire
to know the cause,
But 'tis a special grace
to enjoy mercy

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'effectual,' which is delightfully ironic. This is only about the third time I've picked a 'story' and forced the text into it, but had to commemorate the arrival today of this postcard (Kerala backwaters, south India), which I mailed to myself in Mumbai on 27 november.

patience

Patience

There blew in that soft wind
Sweet Paradise

and the warblers of spring,
returning after their tedious absence
revive us;

full of Poems

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

travel

culture and people;
Travel is the sine qua non
of pleasure

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is ‘Maoritanga.’ It didn’t take long to figure out where the Oxford lads were going with this one: happy Waitangi Day to the kiwis!

les tournesols

les tournesols
have nowhere to turn —
seattle winter

honor life

to honor life
celebrate Now
(with love)

I will be there,
and keep more alive to grace,
than to any sense of Past

There is not a woman in all the world
but would prefer Flowers

Here stands My invitation to Life

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

Thank you for MY flowers, little brother :)

new year

a new year,
its image in thy Thoughts
govern the whole,
from beginning to end

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

happy consequences

Sketches & Poems:

The most happy
consequences are
when desires
overcome
reason and habits

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

a humble prayer

a humble prayer
was made for all
in this Pickle

gently asking
for the truth
as a basis for belief

Our Author expects
it should be admitted
without any proof.

how absurd this is
for Tackling Inner problems
on the surface

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