Disappearing Words

I recently heard that the Oxford Junior Dictionary 

has removed a number of words from its new edition, 

replacing them with words they feel our technology-driven children 

need more - like database, chatroom, analogue, broadband, bullet point, etc. 

Here is a sampling of what has been left behind. 

I write them out to hold them near, alive and singing, 

resonant names of our natural world . . .

This spring morning . . .

before entering

the rush of the day, 

I draw what is opening

around me . . .