24 Nov 2010 Leave a comment
in 2010, a sense of the ridiculous, circling round vanities, circling round woman
Plucking Eyebrows In The Sun
I’m taking a poll.
It’s whimsical.
I’m plucking eyebrows in the sun,
Well, really, plucking eyebrows on my chin.
How many women
In my boat,
Admit it?
Come on, honestly.
Tell me.
After all,
It’s just a poll,
And I won’t tell
(Not one sole soul)
Female or male.
©Plucking Eyebrows In The Sun 10.16.2010
Circling Round Vanities; Circling Round Woman; A Sense of the Ridiculous;
Arlene Corwin
21 Nov 2010 Leave a comment
in 2010, circling round nature
Windy Morning
Dancing leaves;
Trunks slim,
A family
Communing, swaying
Synergistically.
In weakness
They don’t break
Or crack.
They yield and give.
They live.
My powers of observation checked,
There is no sound indoors.
© Windy Morning 6.1.2010
Circling Round Nature;
Arlene Corwin
21 Nov 2010 Leave a comment
in 2010, to the child mystic II
When You Feel
When you feel
The you that’s coming
To and through,
You know
You’re on your way.
When you feel the you
That is,
You know.
©When You Feel 9.9.2010
To The Child Mystic II
Arlene Corwin
21 Nov 2010 Leave a comment
in 2010, circling round reality
Unity
It’s a matter
Of seeing the parallels;
Measure and meter
Encompassing everything.
Hater to lover,
The crater of differences
Must be filled in.
A state of the mind,
It still is a matter
Of seeing the parallels,
Heavens and hells
Which never condemn
But condone.
© Unity 11.18.2010
Circling Round Reality;
Arlene Corwin
21 Nov 2010 Leave a comment
in 2010, definitely didactic, pure nakedness
Nothing To Lose By Exposing
I’ve nothing to lose
(I mean we all)
By telling you the whole.
Nothing not clutched at,
Reached out to
Or botched up in life.
Kill? You’ve killed roach,
Wasp and ant.
You can’t
Say you’re harmless.
Both sexes have panted,
Seen, smelled, touched –
Have felt much of much:
If not outright, in fancy,
So,
Nothing is lost
By making all known,
The unshown unshorn,
Exposed in the sharing –
It takes guts and daring, but
Nothing an ego can’t take.
© Nothing To Lose 10.20.2010
Definitely Didactic; Pure Nakedness;
Arlene Corwin
21 Nov 2010 Leave a comment
in 2010, birthday book
Day After
November nine; first snow.
You gave me yesterday to celebrate:
A birth date worth the wait,
To never underestimate.
Sun shone.
One tasted stardom
Which meets confidence meets courage
Which meet age and faith
In coming days unknown.
Nice!
© Day After 11.9.2010
Birthday Book;
Arlene Corwin
18 Nov 2010 Leave a comment
in 2010, revelations big & small
My Heart Is Growing Tenderer
I’ve noticed that
My heart is growing tenderer.
I suffer with the sufferer.
I never thought I’d reach it:
Crying with my nice bank manager who’s lost her cat,
A newly widowed someone… fancy that!
Not sentiment,
Not sentimental –
Something new, original,
Its source untraceable.
Shield asonder,
Heart a new surrenderer,
No longer hinderer
Or flounderer,
Waiting for I-don’t-know-what,
But even more expandable.
© My Heart Is Growing Tenderer 10.25.2010
Revelations Big & Small;
Arlene Corwin
18 Nov 2010 Leave a comment
Just A Shortie
Help me breathe the day –
Obey,
Relay,
Unveiled, laid
open,
Bare,
Exposed,
Bringing to light and making clear,
Preparing me for inspiration.
I need pushing
and
I need to keep on track
By holding nothing back
Not rushed but gently pushed.
© Just A Shortie 11.12.2010 God Book; Arlene Corwin
18 Nov 2010 Leave a comment
in 2010, our times our culture
A Funny Little Calculation
The several clocks
The four wristwatches –
All run down.
The camera and remote control,
The cell phone (which I do not own)
All need re-spurting.
I do have a small step-counter,
(Whose inventor must have earned a fortune)
It too needs a battery.
Then there’s my
Toothbrush, mini-
Vacuum cleaner
Which I never meant to buy –
They just ‘showed up’. I have begun to see
What’s me – a modest junkie
Harnessed to conspiracies;
The willing, non-complaining victim
Whose unneeded extras
Have turned to bulimia.
If I used the things, each moment
Using what each moment’s urged,
And charging what must be recharged,
Each blink
Might need a new installment.
Think,
My use times yours times yours…
Phone, clock, watch, TV, vacuum cleaners…
Multitudinous inventions
That I don’t take part in,
Either running down or just too smart
For me.
Conclusion lacking
I can only see
This as a funny little
Calculation.
© A Funny little Calculation 10.24.2010 Our Times, Our Culture; Arlene Corwin
12 Nov 2010 Leave a comment
in 2010, circling round nature, circling round time, circling round vanities, circling round woman, circling round wrinkles, pure nakedness
Frozen In Time
The tendency,
The wish to be
The shiny sun of twenty-one
That looked out from
A malleable place
Inside that face
Of innocence and gullibility;
Mute kingdom
Of the ignorant.
One sees the now-jowls,
Howls,
And asks oneself
Would I prefer to be
Time frozen, young forever?
Never!
I know all about it.
I’m re-routed;
More alive than Arlene
Twenty smooth-faced Nover ever
Was.
Circling Round Wrinkles; Circling Round Nature; Pure Nakedness;
Arlene Corwin
© Frozen In Time; 5.1.2010
Arlene Corwin Poetry 