sweet eloquence

verses -
A way to honor
the sweet
eloquence
of a Good little
walk home,
a Treat to draw

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

gates

pounding
Mysterious Gates

the entrance,
sweetened with Age

Travelers’ past
served A la Carte

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'harissa'; easier to cook with than to poetize.

turn beauty into dialogue

We need
to use imagination
to entertain the Universe

in a sense
To turn beauty into Dialogue

though built on the ancient fear
we have no Authentic purpose;

Which is false

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

stars & stripes

Evening stars
& stripes
of moonlight
on the path —
memorial day

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"Demutualization," Oxford? Are you kidding me?

hyperbolical fragility

enclosing the day
worn against the night
Light breaks in a
hyperbolical fragility

some kind of
great Riddle
nursed tenderly
on Evenings

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem| commentary is 'walnut-shell.'

clear and free

The act of
looking at
something
patiently
should be
the Subject
of your Meditation.

When I do this,
the work is
clear and free
as a Morning,

No stupid
‘correction’
in the Design.

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

If you are in the Seattle area, I suggest you revise your weekend plan and head immediately to the Kubota Garden, as I did with my old friend June, to witness its current abundance.

fragmented soul

So what is this
frantic,
weirdly fragmented
soul and why
should we care?

You don't know
and I can't
remember

it goes beyond the remix

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'mash-up'.

lifeboat

love/

A lifeboat,
to enable us
to go in safety
into shallow waters
and amongst rocks

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The OED word of the day is 'tunneled.'

Suspiciously Simple

Art
may be Suspiciously
Simple
with a power
used mainly for
Discovery
& Harmony
which is rose-hued

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

Yesterday the Seattle Urban Sketchers were out in force to sketch around Saint Spiridon Orthodox Cathedral and the headquarters of REI, which was having a big sale that shut down streets and generated a lot of curious foot traffic:

"Is this an art class?"
"What are you guys DOing??"

connection

connection

That pleasure and comfort
of Poetry
The human gradually
more and more divine

so much of The Art of Poems
is the presence of an Answer
to what is in a Heart
to express the promise of great Changes,
sooner or later

There is nothing more vital than
a question of the immortal happiness of men

the poet should lead a person to do something
To feel, with wonder,
that Liberty to prevail In the end,
to conquer Life

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

demand excellence

A Poem
required power
in order To
Delight Muses
and demand
excellence
by living
in The present

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

Boy, you leave town for a couple of weeks and you come back to find the Parks Dept. has planted palms at Alki Beach. Old timers may recall the business card of the now defunct Boca restaurant, with a Caribbean beach photoshopped in front of the Olympic Mountains. Once again, life imitates art.

monkeyin' with

a Sunday painter—
brushes thick and stiff,

hour after hour
delightfully
spent monkeyin'
with What's good,
which was part luck
and part skill,

a way to leave
some of the ingenuous love
in an uncannily convincing image

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

meditation

meditation

Once upon a time,
an esoteric
fledgling idea
of a dedicated
Someone
opened.

It was full.


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

pilgrimage

A Pilgrimage of the Soul
may be a Success,
(With sometimes
incredible excuses
to the contrary)

the greater the Temptation,
the greater the Glory to resist
any imperfection in Understanding.

But in love, something must be true.

it is Heroic, necessary labor.

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'allege.' The sketch is of 'Savannah Square,' inside what must be the most gracious airport ever.

the wise

I think the wise
Don't take no for an answer,
never submit to failure,
Question a negative statement

breathe
laugh
love

for the sake of thy heart

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'no.'

sketches

one who
seeks to
can love
a place
in Sketches

seeking common objects
& being
Present

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

words

wisdom
taught In Verse

Words,
As simple as they seem,
are enough

take pleasure in Life.
Trust me, it is The way;
not for applause but for Love

Be full of humor
(& the Things that Poets write of,
Of course!)

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

matters of the heart

in matters of the heart
The usual is to handle change
and scrape through

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

one's thoughts

In prayers and
Poems & Songs
one's thoughts,
lock'd up safely
in Verses

this practice
awakened
in my mind
a crowd of
delightful
laughable
adventures

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

thoughts

everything that interests me
might not be pretty,
it's simply thoughts
whenever the muse strikes

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is -appropriately! - 'weblog.'

This is modeled on a crab Victoria caught.

prattling Muses

Words of prattling Muses,
Magic Words
woven into A Journey
in beautiful plumage —
Homespun Poems,
free and content

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'piet.' That would be a gossip or magpie, in case you are scratching your head.

a simple life

a Simple Life
par excellence

I know something
about this business.

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

that which stands still stifles

that which stands still
stifles many Glories

The sloping Sun
To Ocean's Verge,
has run
in fluent intercourse
with this island

in the shadows
A fairy pool
of non-material things
flowing gracefully

I never dreamed of such delicate motion
a Hymn to the Earth

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem is 'fluent,' a good description of a two-week old dolphin in Broad Creek at Hilton Head Island.

Grace

Grace
It's the mind arising
to Mirror the Heart

for spirits
in joyous self-satisfaction
Let in Life

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

Lost a blog day in travel, with a wifi snafu at the destination. Appropriately, yesterday's WOTD was 'peevish.' :)

a Renaissance

Sometimes people
tangle with
wars & Decisions
too deep
to be at breakfast

Carefully
avoiding contact with
the most menacing
Daily News
May usher in
a Renaissance
in society

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

empty berths

the sun sparkling
on the harbor —
empty berths

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Cinco de Mayo and the OED word of the day is 'mash potato.' (eyes roll) Small wonder that there was no poem in that mealy - uh, measly - entry.

So, instead, a commentary on the inverse relationship between good weather and number of boats in the harbor to paint.

the essential

The essential
illuminated in the face
of a much-loved friend

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

Finally, the Seattle Plein Air meetup got great weather at Fishermen's Terminal.

art

Art —

No one can explain
by a Logical Definition
what it is.

To understand
is to be near
The eternal.

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

I will not wait

I will not wait for the afternoon.

in spite of the weather,
There was a tender & perfect desire
for accidental Poems,
some great need
from an unreasonable Heart

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

May

the Rejoicing
produced by the Sun
triumphed over all —
May

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'May-game, ' which also offers up the following, even if it is a day late and a £ short:


a Prince in his Colours,
an English Maid
and a wedding
triumph over the
manifest foolishness of the Court

& If Will rule,
their Marriage May well
mock History