Pointless 2011

24 Jul 2011 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2011, our times our culture

Pointless

We know, we know.

Yet we are hurt, astonished

When the anger opens

Weaponed, bomb- and bullet-filled;

Detached, well fed, strangely inhuman

Mis-fostered passion,

Technologically obtained.

✄

We know that there is no safe place,

That life is fragile,

Unpredictable.

Know that books and folk are saying,

Calling days the ‘last’.

✄

Oslo. No

Peace prize today:

Price of peace the pointless piece

Of tragedy.

✄

Delayed, an inner movement

That says “Moan and cry!”

One can but mark a moment

In eternity.

Pointless 7.24.2011

Our Times, Our Culture;

Arlene Corwin

Thought You Get But Once 2011

19 Jul 2011 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2011, definitely didactic, the processes II

Thoughts You Get But Once

There are thoughts you only get but once:

The back side of the front side of creativeness.

Oh yes, the theme comes back –

Perhaps a thousand times-

But never as it was that moment.

Moment of panache,

Moment of genius;

Inspired, unique,

That special muse

Twin Siamese.

So get it down.

Drop what you’re doing:

Yoga pose, the floured board.

Just wash your hands

And do it.

Thoughts You Get But Once 7.17.2011

Definitely Didactic; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II;

Arlene Corwin

When I Say Soul 2011

19 Jul 2011 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2011, nature of & in reality, to the child mystic II

When I Say Soul

What do I mean when I say soul?

I’ve used the S word countless times.

It’s time that I defined it further.

Self refined a self-concerto.

What is meant when I say soul?

I mean the Self, the real self.

Superior to intellect and mind,

Designed for oneness.

Goodness knows the reason why.

A little or a lot to do

With It-in-sky.

Possible a breakaway that still

Belongs, was once a part of, same as,

Destined to get back one day.

In any case, when I say soul,

I mean the self behind the senses –

Senses senseless unless activated

By, you guessed it, Self –

The daily and the real.

When I Say Soul 7.16.2011

To The Child Mystic II; Nature Of & In Reality;

Arlene Corwin

Fun Exercise In F For Freckles 2011

19 Jul 2011 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2011, a sense of the ridiculous, circling round nature

Fun Exercise In F For Freckles

The freckling fugued

In June of this year.

Funny old freckles, fueled

By some fund of fugitive energy,

Frustrating mystery.

Calf and thigh,

Chest and breast;

Frankly the most

Fantastically fecund

Of foreign tattooing –

(in at the moment, tattooing, that is)

But puzzling.

Not ugly, just foreign

And vaguely in fashion.

I can’t say I’m friends with them;

Nature the Changer, its signs untranslatable,

Signs of finality filtering through.

Flecks on the flesh

That show more past than future.

Freckle so new,

What are you?

Fun Exercise In F For Freckles 7.18.2011

A Sense Of The Ridiculous; Circling Round Nature;

Arlene Corwin

Let’s Face It 2011

11 Jul 2011 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2011, God book

Let’s Face It

 

Let’s face it:

Not out there

With arms and legs,

Penis, kidneys –

Body parts.

Qualities

Collected in,

Connected to

The brain,

My brain.

And here I am

Trying to,

I don’t know the word.

 

Let’s Face it 7.11.2011

God Book;

Arlene Corwin

In The Nowness of Seconds 2011

11 Jul 2011 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2011, definitely didactic, nature of & in reality

Within The Nowness Of Seconds

Within the nowness of seconds

– If you live within them –

There is wisdom,

And in wisdom safety,

 Sanctuary, guarantee:

Security.

In the newness of the nowness

Is the yes-ness of the nano-

In the smallest unit

No-ness which,

Does not exist.

Niceness

In entirety.

Ooh, it’s lovely to exist!

Within The Nowness of Seconds 7.8.2011

Definitely Didactic: Nature In & Of Reality;

Arlene Corwin

 

I Got It 2011

11 Jul 2011 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2011, a sense of the ridiculous, God book

I Got It (Almost)

I got it!

I figured it out!

God has to be minuter than minute!

If bigger, He’d consist of parts,

And parts crave causes.

Cause and inbuilt prototype,

It can’t have parts: He can’t have parts.

It can’t have gender – pronoun starts.

He must be One,

For One consists of nothing with,

Is nothing but

 A center.

Homogeneous,

An axle, pin.

Then,

℘

Qualities:

Does that split One?

It is our hope, our postulation:

One

Must have

All, yet have none.

℘

It must be still,

(For if it moved, it would have needs.

It cannot need; by definition.)

Must be pure; it has no bits.

It is unmixed.

Its total – in its bag of tricks –

Must hold what comes, will come:

Then, now and future ever present.

(readers few,

does this make sense to you?)

Hence, all that can be known.

℘

Consciousness, love, happiness?

I cannot figure out this koan.

But, keen observer, (not Candide)

I see life happening for best;

Every change the best containing

Every change bound, preordained.

Extrapolation, yes it is;

That these (the qualities) should probably

Be primes

And still bliss is

 A Mystery

To me –

At least

So far.

I Got It! 7.4.2011

A Sense Of The Ridiculous; God Book;

Arlene Corwin

Circling Round the Arctic 2011

09 Jul 2011 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2011, a sense of the ridiculous, circling round nature, circling round vanities, defiant doggerel

Circling Round The Arctic

 

Too many hours in the Swedish sun:

A raisin bun.  Not funny!

Freckled, mole-y, melanom-y

Vitiligo,

Pigment’s foe.

Tan and lovely for a summer;

White in winter.

That’s the ‘bummer’!

Living near an arctic circle

Makes a work of keeping tan.

Collagen

Says “Eat more C”!

“Get more D3”!

The country

Is a Nordic one:

Long summer days close to the sun;

A combination

Made in space

That destines wrinkled legs to face.

With ultra-violet by osmosis,

Winter osteoporosis,

Sweden is anomalous,

Ridiculous,

For no one wants to leave it.

 

Circling Round The Arctic 7.9.2011

A Sense Of The Ridiculous; Circling Round Nature; Defiant Doggerel;

Circling Round Vanities;

Arlene Corwin

 

 

Within The Nowness Of Seconds 2011

08 Jul 2011 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2011, definitely didactic, nature of & in reality

Within The Now-ness

Within The Nowness Of Seconds

Within the nowness of seconds

– If you live within them –

There is wisdom,

And in wisdom safety,

 Sanctuary, guarantee:

Security.

In the newness of the nowness

Is the yes-ness of the nano-

In the smallest unit

No-ness which,

Does not exist.

Niceness

In entirety.

Ooh, it’s lovely to exist!

Within The Nowness of Seconds 7.8.2011

Definitely Didactic: Nature In & Of Reality;

Arlene Corwin

 

Contiguous Walls 6.30.2011

06 Jul 2011 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2011, circling round baths

Contiguous Walls

Contiguous

The white & black,

The front & back.

 ℘

Sitting in the bath

Awake since four,

Wiped out, inert,

I am the object of a passive flirt,

Eyes seeing skies

On patterned towel.

Letting mind

Determine meaning.

Pushing through, I don’t allow

The view to glue me

To the images I see,

Still not inclined to rise and do,

I soap and soak – amused.

Bent to fuel the symbols squelched,

The bathroom silence snubbed,

And pushing forward and beyond,

I play the mind

And list the attributes designed.

I go to God.

I wash my body.

Strangely filled, no longer tired,

Wired for the day.

Contiguous Walls 6.30.2011

Circling Round Baths;

Arlene Corwin

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