2 Deep

Poems invest
Communications
with stuff
2 Deep 2 remember

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

longing

armed with Flowers
but Longing for May
and the possibility of sun

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Quite disappointed that the OED word of the day for the erasure poem | weather commentary is 'double.' Really, lads? That's the best you could come up with for the royal wedding day?

Had a great time sketching in Volunteer Park, as the Cornish drama department was staging a boisterous production of "As You Like It" right behind me in the small meadow.

starfish

under the pier
a tird of pale orange starfish
reimagine the sun

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The OED word of the day is clamper, which did not lend itself to a poem, so MY word of the day is tird: the name for a group of starfish.

The spellchecker doesn't believe either one of them is a word! :)

the crux

belief is the crux

April clearly
has no intention
of committing

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

immaterial things

Poems join with Sketches
I went beyond the walls
to entertain mine eye
with the Paradise
of immaterial things

Silence is an embryo
dwelling in the Poems
I sit Belonging to Now
Nobody & Somebody

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'suburb,' the usage of which goes back to the 14th century.

the Sun

in spring
the Sun when it shines
is a glorious flower itself

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The OED word of the day is the totally unusable 'macker,' so with the help of my library card that gives me access to the OED, I have chosen my own word for the erasure poem: tulip. I'm sure that the Oxford lads would have done so themselves if they were aware of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.

crazily

life
crazily steadied on planks
of old rusty sense

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

spring

Worth tedious Volumes of Poetry,
spring is a delicate Light
of Life just begun

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

the artistic ozone

there was a flatness
In the artistic ozone

how one longs For ideas

in the stupefied silence,
the ordinary present so well constructed,

the problems are due to what we know

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

Hasta luego

Winter was finally over.
Adiós.
Hasta luego.
Go jump in the nearest lake.

Nobody minded.

We see a little,
presume a great deal,
and jump to the Conclusion
that there is a spring

Only time will tell.

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

everything a journey

everything is a Pilgrimage,
a Journey of Adventures
And many strange creatures
possess a voice…

under the humming tide
warriors weep

The sea reflecting Life

hyperbolical in Poems
gigantic, immense, enormous
Love is a dance,
an answer that must fit all doubt,
much easier to paint than describe

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

walking

walking
may steady a reaction
with the ground;
contact is all natural

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

the magic

life…
the magic which lurked
spoke to me

Dragons are Extra

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'umtagati,' which is an improvement on yesterday's utterly unusable 'nebsy.' I am no longer sure whether OED means Oxford English Dictionary or Oxford's Esoteric Dictionary. As I write this, the spellchecker has underlined both words (and suggested a newsy fumigation!!)

sunday morning

the sunday morning
rustle of the New York Times
across the country

a vivid dash of color

a vivid dash of color
and an emphasis on
freedom
and spontaneity
is the Language of Painting,
and Life,
a reflection of
Every brave ambition
you wish to see

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The OED word of the day is 'tache.' Turns out there is a style of painting called tachisme, based on blotches or spots of color. My oh my, the things the Oxford boys teach me.

Today the Seattle Urban Sketchers met at the Elliott Bay Footbridge. Who knew it would be such a great location? Kudos to our organizer Gail Wong. This view of it was done on a copy of a 1912 map of Seattle (click on the image to see a larger view).

april

april —
tulips watered
with snowflakes

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JFTR, the OED word of the day is 'monkey drill.' A poem? Not a chance.

no passage

There is no Passage to

(April)

summer with impunity.

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | weather commentary is 'man-of-war.'

out on the edge

out On the Edge
of Patience,
you are brought
to a standstill
with the hope that
the most important
are the friendliest

Life /

The test was to use
all the awe of The heart &
Throw out the guidance
of the vast, switched-off,
utterly without-it lot
who dominate the world.

Limits?

I'm going as I am.

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

good thoughts

Good Thoughts
in Times of Love
are commonly
so wise
as to be
immediately
called a Poem

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

travel with pen, pencil & paper

A drawing of the stars
in A little frame
expressed the Journey

fortunately, we do not have to define things

love, Mr. Poet, created the picture
the Senses connect feelings
on The map of life,
which is not only confused,
but keeps going round all the time
within one's everyday Theology

Take my Word for It
When your back is turned,
A Magician's Assistant of no account
would wipe a color off

It's up to You
What d'you sit there staring at?
You ought to know by now that something in Good Walks
will fit into your drawing

fill up the vacuum with imaginary places

travel with Pen, Pencil & paper for sketching

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The OED word of the day (all nine pages of it) for the erasure poem | commentary is 'map.'

hypothesis

hypothesis —
The Secret of a Happy Life
is An expectation of pleasure

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

walking

up and down
Walking made
Everyday Life
Great

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

walks

walks...
a daily exercise
of contentment
& To make Sketches

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

smiles

in Life
We want the right to
Smiles

and the good sense
to make A garden

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

Yesterday afternoon, as an evil storm rolled in from the west, the sun was still shining from the southwest on Alki Beach and its driftwood, creating a layering of wonderful colors I tried to capture.

faith

Faith without question,
out of fear,
makes no difference whatever

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

scrupulous attention

Life
I might better understand it
with the most scrupulous attention Daily

If the time should ever come
when I sat with ease
not uselessly repeating the same tactics,
that would be Heaven

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

diary

ancient Diary
the ruins of a life's journey

Such Bull.

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

April days

April Days
their perfume voluptuously inhaled
A flight of rockets

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

Of course you knew that the central spot where all the beaters gather and the pheasants make a break for it to avoid ending up under glass is called a bouquet. At least it was in the 19th century. As usual, no usage is too esoteric to escape the Oxford lads.

river

flood stage —
the khaki-colored river
knows no bounds

a distant cousin

Summer
was a distant cousin
and the first to laugh

now there is rain
underneath the
creative flowering

April
Alas, was
February-like

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'Piltdown.' It was news to me (as is often the case with the OED offering!) that Piltdown was the home of a fossil skull hoax in England in 1912. Guess you had to be there. I would rather be in the South of France, so the sketch is of Antibes today. Happy April's Fool Day. Beware of silverware taped to the table.