old skool

design —
old skool talent
is Welcome
to Spark
Nu style

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

Many reasons to like the Mark Spencer Hotel in Portland, but a big one is the free NY Times delivered to your door every morning, which has both all the news fit to print AND great color images to cut up for collages.

dinner

dinner:
America's underclass
are largely served
atrocious crap

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

Floundering in faith

Adventures
you want real
rather than
nothin' but
rushing around—
what the natives call
Independent Travel

or Floundering in faith

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

If you are in the area, don't miss the National Collage Society Invitational Postcard Show at the Bellevue Arts Museum 4/20/12 to 7/15/12. "Urbanity" shown here will be there.

bleak

Bleak
nights and days
made for the Rain
keeping watch
on February

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

galaxy of candles

(the Dark Side is really full of WIMPs,
their source remains a puzzle)

Stars —
Light that set out millions of years ago,
scattered Toward the End of Time

Poems Make stars small,
and scarce visible in the bright joy
lighting a galaxy of candles

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

sharper edge

life plays out,
and training for
a lifetime of
the Zen of Watching
starts early

a recurring cycle
relevant to the
Sharper Edge of life

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

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!”

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.

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.'

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...

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.'

difficult things

In your mad Life,
The things you know
make difficult things
the Secret of Joy

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After a week of sillabub and cockapoo, today's OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is hellacious.

Seriously, it is "hellacious."

pause and enjoy

a walk is good —
with Some Image
of How nice
it would be to retire
beneath the shade
of some great oak,
resolved to pause and enjoy
Life Opened large

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The OED word dessert of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'sillabub.' Peggy has pointed out that banoffee (pie) is still available, but I hope the Oxford lads are ready to move on.

weeds & wild flowers

Life,
which we scarf down
in about ten minutes,
has Weeds &
Wild Flowers
in its Song Book

the best Listener
Can get into it
with nothing more
than Faith

though some were irritated
by paradise

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Following yesterday's 'pavlova,' today's OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'apple-pie.' I'm expecting tiramisù tomorrow.

this wild-cow milking contest

the sound of a bold Whack!

What's this?

foolish joy and delight
seems a Use & Need of Poetry
in This wild-cow milking contest

a Comic Song of the divine

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is 'rowdy-dow.'

misbegotten

misbegotten
summer —
the conservatory
crowded with visitors

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The short boring definition of the OED word of the day wasn't enough for an erasure poem. The word is 'jobble.'
Don't feel bad if you don't know what that is: it was in use 500 years ago to describe a small load of hay. I'm thinking that the Oxford lads might be candidates for the reality show "Hoarders."

Pictured is another take on my new favorite bromeliad, this time as a collage.

metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

the heart Exercises
softer parts
of anything hard,
demanding admittance

Let go – friend of love

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The OED word of the day for the erasure poem|commentary is the verb 'job.' My favorite definition (both rare and obsolete) is: to job faces. That meant to kiss!

It's hard to imagine Lucy in Peanuts screaming: "Auugh! I've been jobbed face by a dog! I have dog germs! Get some hot water! Get some disinfectant! Get some iodine!"

slang

unknown source

slang is
Living in
the language

a game of
strange transpositions

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Yet another bizarro word of the day from the OED for the erasure poem|commentary: 'marrowsky.'

illustrating the world

drawing and writing
illustrating the world
is a Pastime & Practice

Moments of heaven

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

useless

useless
to be grievously
afflicted by fear

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

FYI, if I were to complain about the word, I'd be peenging... while the 21st century American spellchecker guessed I was 'pinging'!