solitude

Poems Visit Solitude …
in love with Life
Art would not fail

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

in a great hurry

Apparently
an imperative,
to be
in a great hurry is

Life

Be quick
& Wait,
and Leaning towards Infinity,
run out again

Why are we always running?

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

It would be interesting to keep track of every time the Blogger's 21st century American English spellchecker flags the OED word of the day. 'Quicksticks,' of course, definitely alarms it! :)

last peaches

the sun warms the year's
last peaches as we drink
French wine on the terrace

heaven

This, then,
is Heaven—
To piece together
a Life of Grace
& Common Sense

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

a flower

a flower
has no small Place
in Life

The beauty
of the original

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

autumn

Autumn —
Watching rain
a mile away
With the sun
in my eyes

a big noise

"Pleep!" 

The OED word of the day is that piece of bird talk, so today’s "poem" comes from a neighborhood toddler.

Last evening I dropped a heavy bag into an empty recycling bin and started to walk away, only to hear behind me a small excited voice shout:

 “Mommy! That was a big noise! It scared my whole body!”

everyday life

practicing The way
is all —
living and  
Translating The answer
to turn
everyday life
into a force

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Today's OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'Stepford.' I can't believe I whined about the string of dessert words.

Happy equinox to all (we encourage a celebratory meal of pizza and prosecco), even if this morning in Seattle feels like "summer in Tennessee," according to my barista.

the Path

It is not black and white
It is the Path
Face the music?
beautifully!

To revolt
One needs the poem

failure
is permeated with
a precision-tooled ending

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

About a half-hour into collaging the little color squares on this, I had an OMG moment and metaphorically hit myself in the forehead: last night I'd watched a DVD on Paul Klee. The subconscious is scary.

pussycat

September is
such a pussycat
it walked with
an almost comic air
of authority
And made
October bold

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I'll be the first to say it's an odd poem, but the OED - continuing with its "film character week" theme - gave us "Ramboesque" as the word of the day. Enough said.

In a collage workshop earlier this week, I created this one, unusually - for me - on canvas board. (Yes, Andrea, you can click it for a larger image!)

a secret

we try to be original,
to discover a secret
it doesn't matter what it is.

Art doesn't care

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First it was desserts, now the Oxford lads are on a film kick. The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is McGuffin.

Painting this afternoon with Mary in perfect weather in Carkeek Park.Yum.

differing perspectives

differing perspectives
give depth
to the picture

in effect: the truth
is never quite the same
to different people

memories gleaming
with different facets
of meaning

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

toddle

In the Morning
the taste of Life was great,
& I lay there
in something of a trance,
and I suppose that's okay

in The Feng Shui 
for Modern Living
the thing to do, On Sunday,
is to toddle.
Calmly and constructively.
Close to home.

I don't need abundant rules—
Just an O.K. from the gods 

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'OK. ' Surprisingly confusing origin, with arguments made for Scottish, Choctaw, French and West African.

Today was Buskers' Festival at Pike Place Market. Glad the skies cleared for them.

drawing the world

She was drawing
the World
Her works
were Simple,
and twice as good
When in the Sun

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

a battered plan

on The Canvas,
the remains
of a battered Plan
I'm not getting back
with screaming

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After yesterday's unusable 'ziff,' the OED word of the day for the erasure poem| commentary is 'ruptured duck.'

foghorn

september morning —
a foghorn startles the tea
right out of my cup

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This is my first acrylic painting ever, done in a 4-hour mini class at Pratt last evening. It was quite liberating after watercolor, being able to go back and add white and lights... and finger paint!

forgiveness

forgiveness does
comfort and instruct,
and in a short time
heal the soul

The need
is commonly denied
but in Forgiveness
is a Genius, 
and the daring
to Hope

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

the Now

the Now
is the only certain knowledge

to find more creative ways
to raise the standard,
go a bit Independent

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

The quick sketch is of some ladies quilting at The Puyallup Fair. Their equivalent to Urban Sketchers! 

The pinkish red is NOT raspberry jam from an official Fisher fair scone.

different and opposite

arising from the swirling flow
two different
and opposite currents
meeting with obstacles
to express the great will
which carries them back again to the other

Look out for the vortex
that can take you under

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

strong

an enthusiasm for
September
its rhythm,
energetic and strong;
the sound of A soul

Originals impress us
no end

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

bright and pure and clean

bright and pure and clean,
people seem to like the Sea

A long parade of visitors
crying out for some beauty

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

Imaginary Conversations

the answer must be Love;

It fully excuses Poets who
From an unfinished scrap
of scholarly play
transform
the Imaginary
Conversations
We have Every day
into a teaching
of how to fly

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

a daily joy

Art is a daily joy
Which I truly treasure,
And puzzles Add
much to my pleasure
I've learnt so much
by solving
the Not immediately understandable;
useful Fragments I will keep as a souvenir

The attentive Mind is Magical

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

one shivering thought

I warn
the Reader
of the Enthusiasm 
To clothe one
shivering thought
in a hundred
thousand garments


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

Today at Fishermen's Terminal, a guy working on the boat nearest me strolled over to check out what I was doing. "Oh, nice - kind of a collage, huh?" he said with a distinctly East Coast accent. Glad he said something before I did, which would have clued him into the fact that I had assumed the word 'collage' would not be in a fisherman's vocabulary. My [stereotyping] bad.

September

September —
the smell
of old leaves
and new books

stealing the spotlight

i myself
have missed You,
Summer.

September
At the present time,
is stealing
the spotlight

But There is
no contest.

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is one after my own heart: 'cruciverbalist.' That would be a crossword puzzle enthusiast.

equilibrium

When you
have truly
known The Soul,
a state of
equilibrium
is established

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

I've been messing with this watercolor & found paper collage on canvas for about a year (in case it looks familiar). Getting closer...

a good walk

Let a good walk
be connected
with practice

survival
in a slightly
different context

in the summer light

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

the present

the present
laid bare
to the imagination
the possibility
of a miracle
that transformed

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The OED mouthful of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'Wirtschaftswunder.'

the boldly successful

arouse thee now—ho!
the boldly successful
have very different feelings
towards the New

join the party

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is "Septembrist."