18 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in 2011, circling round reality, nature of & in reality
Suddenly It’s Silent
The sound is gone.
Is it the end
Of an affair, a war, the world?
A temporary state
Which soon or late
Returns to tone?
Singing birds,
Spoken words,
Flutterings and mutterings;
Buzzings; things
That vibrate love and action –
Muted:
Unexplained.
Strange.
Now to tailor time to suit the silence;
How to tailor time to suit the silence?
Suddenly It’s Silent 6.17.2011
Nature In And Of Reality; Circling Round Reality;
Arlene Corwin
12 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in 2011, birth death & in between II, circling round nature
Moth In The Dishwater
It lay in the dishpan,
There only minutes before it was found.
Bag for the garbage, the only thing handy,
I lifted it onto the only thing present.
Predictably stuck, I continued to try.
Paper towel – single ply –
Gently absorbing the water I could,
Watching the dampness be transferred and spread,
Lo! Here was movement: antennae and head.
A moth full of fortitude, patient and quiet;
Waiting, accepting whatever fate brought it.
It’s June and it’s summer. I opened the door,
Moth and yours truly keen for existence.
Stooping outside, nudging to grass straw;
First, to a spider web. That was an error.
Cheeky and rude to the spider in question
I transferred de-powered, de-powdered white wings
To a flower, now fond of the little white thing.
Checking its whereabouts each half an hour.
By some downright miracle, it’s shifted place.
How it survives is a matter of grace,
But it lives.
At the moment it lives.
Moth In The Dishwater 6.11.2011
Circling Round Nature; Birth, Death & In Between II;
Arlene Corwin
08 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
In Terms Of
It helps to think in terms of God.
You don’t have to
If you feel repelled.
Bot focus on a onething.
In Terms Of 5.1.2011
God Book;
Arlene Corwin
07 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in 2011, our times our culture
Not Made To Multi-Task
To work against the weak sides
Of one’s character,
Yet keep intact the instinct for
One’s intuition.
Made to focus,
(Though the best
of yogis,
I have heard,
Can solve a hundred things at once;
See to, make, do –
While you and I –
Miscarry,
Never knowing why.
The failings of the century;
Flailing,
So wrapped up in progress and ambition,
Technique’s -ology,
And money.
[We’re in] such a hurry,
Not contrived to multi-task.
Encumbered in our depths,
Stretched over desk and steering wheel
We feel success that isn’t real.
Meant to do one thing.
Not Made To Multi-Task 6.7.2011
Our Times, Our Culture;
Arlene Corwin
07 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in 2011, God book, to the child mystic II
Let’s Face it
Not out there – gender parts and kidneys,
Limbs and such, their liquids, hormones;
It would be absurd to think
Divided absoluteness.
Common sense,
Intelligence
Collected in,
Connected to
The brain: my brain:
I’m here, no accident,
Attempting to – what is the word – sustain
A feeling of affinity
That comes now and again;
‘Made in His image’.
Metaphor/linguistic phrase;
Quaint metaphor/linguistic tries,
But well,
We have to use them don’t we?
Let’s Face it 5.16.2011
To The Child Mystic II; God Book;
Arlene Corwin
07 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in 2011, nature of & in reality
Dark Matter, Dark Energy
Dark matter, dark energy
Might just be the light
Of answers’ ultimate;
The atom, neutron, molecule;
The smaller yet,
Swish-swirling through
Earth micro-macro,
Making up my body:
Yours.
Invisible,
With not a sense to see or measure,
Known by what is missing:
By deduction,
By reduction.
What?
It?
Maybe.
But significant.
Dark Matter, Dark Energy 5.5.2011
Nature Of & In Reality;
Arlene Corwin
07 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in 2011, circling round vanities, circling round wrinkles
Changing Body
Oh, so sneaky, subtle;
“Wearing out”, they call it.
Yet, the ‘wear’ has causes real:
Abuse, a gene’s excuse
Unknown, unseen;
Causal, mean –
Effective.
Bio-clocked,
Upsetting balance,
Sapping strength,
Taking beauty,
(Taking vanity)
In a body
That keeps changing.
A good thing –
If you see it.
Changing Body 5.21.2011
Circling Round Wrinkles; Circling Round Vanities;
Arlene Corwin
07 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in 2011, nature of & in reality, to the child mystic II
Dimensions
Three dimensions –
Possibly eleven, say the theorists;
Worlds rolled into worlds
Like donuts on a table
Allied, aligned;
Contiguous,
Like bubbles from a bubble pipe,
Stuck together –sharing walls.
When one thinks body, God and cosmos
Proton, molecule, neutrino:
Names of parts, projected functions,
Nameless letters,
One thinks:
Hidden; hope; someday…
The search is better
Left to us:
The mystics.
Dimensions 5.21.2011
To The Child Mystic II; Nature of & In Reality;
Arlene Corwin
07 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in 2011, birth death & in between, birth death & in between II
We’re All Gonna Do It
Watching someone
Interviewed
With ALS
Incurable
And fatal.
Thirty-eight;
She cries
We cry, and when
She laughs we smile –
We empathize,
Although
We know
She’s clad
In mourning.
How to comfort and be comforted:
The answer, that we’ll all be dead.
The question:
Are there answers? Do we need them?
Yes, to both.
There are. We need them:
Philosophical, religious;
Abstract in our daily-ness;
We need them.
They exist.
But under answers notwithstanding
Stands one fact:
We all will fall…
All.
We’re All Gonna Do It 5.3.2011
Birth, Death & In Between;
Arlene Corwin
07 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
Blocks
The blockages are fears,
The blocks for building.
We interpret, look for symbols
(all of which are true and valid)
Yet we’re leaving out
The fears; the archetype’s
Recurring prototype;
The real walls,
The real fences
Real lenses
to it all.
Blocks 6.7.2011
Definitely Didactic;
Arlene Corwin
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