Leaving Mirrors
Seeping away,
Leaking through the pores
Of caring.
Leading to an ignorance
Of mirrors, fears,
Opinions, tears;
Spots that toll the bells
Of funerals.
Leaving Mirrors 3.16.2012
Birth, Death & In Between II;
Arlene Corwin
Leaving Mirrors 2012
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in 2012, birth death & in between II Tags: age, birth death & in between, time, vanity
In The Mind 2012
30 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in 2012, birth death & in between II, circling round time II Tags: everything, mind, time
In The Mind
In the mind: ideas, pictures,
Gods, guides, good:
Each/every atom that must train, learn, burn
For something; turn
Itself inside and out
For worthwhile something(s) done.
Will. At some point
A will must will the will
To flow around and through
The sealed system you
reside in.
Fourteen hundred forty minutes’
Journey each and every
day
Until those atoms fan out
Into timelessness, all to the good
eventually.
In The Mind 3.13.2012
Birth, Death, & In Between II; Circling Round Time II;
Arlene Corwin
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Spring Observations 2012
25 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in 2012, circling round nature Tags: ants, change of clocks, crocuses, flies, flowers, mosquitos, nature, spring, tics
Spring Observations
Spring once again:
Friends born in March’s
Transition.
Equinox,
The change of clocks,
Eight crocuses,
Phenomena a hocus pocus
Miracle; a trick
And lucky them!
Hair starts to sun-bleach.
I sit on our mini-beach.
Married pair of ducks out there,
Duck-ette and male –
Behind his tail,
Loyal to the end.
The verandah now has ants.
Water/vinegar concoction works –
They’ve gone back down,
Maybe elsewhere,
Leaving the plants alone –
For now.
It’s just the start,
This greatest part of
All four seasons;
Gnat, tic, fly, mosquito
Not awake or born.
(however they come into
being.)
On the other hand,
A butterfly came flutt’ring by
Not stopping to demean itself
By landing.
Tomorrow will supply
More info.
Spring Observations 3.24.2012
Circling Round Nature;
Arlene Corwin
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Occupied with Resistance: Rolling Up Jeans 2012
17 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in 2012, circling round energy Tags: energy, jeans, mind, resistance
Notes Occupied With Resistance: Rolling Up Jeans
As I was rolling up the cuffs of my jeans, the denim kept thickening, resisting my attempts at rolling. I found myself wanting to stop, when i realized that it as a sign that my hand was weak – not that the material was strong.
Mind has an inherent desire for good, every movement valuable. Don’t let natural resistanceput you off.. Resistance is more a sign that that the particular, the momentary is precisely what you need to work on/go through/pass through.
I carried on rolling. I’d won.
1.18.2011
Occupied With Resistance
Rolling up the cuffs,
Denim thickening, resisting
With each fold.
Wanting to break off, let go
(it is her natal weakness)
Seizing stitch
And see it as a sign.
It isn’t that the cuff was strong:
The hand was weak.
Occupied With Resistance 1.21.2012
Circliing Round Energy;
Arlene Corwin
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You Change 2012
16 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in 2012, circling round vanities II, nature of & in reality Tags: attraction, attractiveness, change, vanities, vanity
You Change
You change.
You do not like it.
This ‘do not like’ business
Silliest of vanities,
Sticking with, hanging on,
As if the world cared what you look like;
As if concentrative levels
Of the average bloke
Of any sex,
Was not that of a five year old.
You vex
As if all life and value
Hung upon it. Alteration does not scold.
The world runs on. It runs away
In regulating law.
Attraction not attractiveness
The net in which we haul in fish.
You Change 3.6.2012
Nature Of & In Reality; Circling Round Vanities II;
Arlene Corwin
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Specialist 2012
16 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in 2012, a sense of the ridiculous, circling round reality Tags: egghead, nerd, reality, specialists
Specialist
We used to call a specialist
A specialist.
Then egghead
(definitely 50’s out)
Now it’s nerd:
A focuser, dedicated expert – with
“I know a little bit
About a lot of things…”
Left to the quiz show whiz.
These days to ‘know
A lot about a little thing
And save the world’ with it
Is in in my small business
Not for show.
Specialist 3.6.2012
A Sense Of ‘the Ridiculous; Circling Round Reality;
Arlene Corwin
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Not Goal But Mechanism: Gratitude
16 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in 2012, circling round reality, definitely didactic Tags: gratitude, meditations, reality
Not Goal But Mechanism
Gratitude:
Imagining in image,
Image in imaginings;
Not goal but mechanism;
Working tool to get you there,
Where thinking clearer betters life
And life for those around. Undervalued
As a talent, knack and aptitude,
When you get it, feel it, use it!
Not a goal but mechanism.
Not Goal But Mechanism 6.23.2011/3.5.2012
Circling Round Reality; Definitely Didactic;
Arlene Corwin
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Yet Another Funeral 2012
16 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in 2012, birth death & in between II, special people special occasions
Yet One More Funeral
A neighbor friend of ninety-eight.
Sad but distanced.
Not as painful as expected.
Organist, priest, cronies, kin,
Then you and me.
The priest had met with son and daughter;
Didn’t preach, but read
The things they said.
No pretensions, abstract terms.
‘Reminisce, recall… but do not live
In halls of past…
Or future fantasies.’
An almost-century on earth…
Details I’d not known.
Then Christendom;
Hope and dust;
Shared, collective dest-
iny.
The lifeless neighbor in our midst
Became a life.
Psalms, organ, sermon;
Row by row we rose and honored…
Flowers, bowing, sometimes words.
A simple service to remind… re-mind.
Another Funeral 3.10.2012
Birth, Death & In Between II; Special People, Special Occasions;
Arlene Corwin
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Tired Of Collecting 2012
08 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in 2012, a sense of the ridiculous, our times our cultureII Tags: acquisitiveness, our acquisitive nature, squirrels
Tired of Collecting
I know it’s wonderful to buy, amass.
Such fun!
So won-
derful!
The floor to ceiling shelves with books.
(and then and when you die. those left look
at those books and say,
“My God, we’ve got to give this stuff away –
It’ s just too much!”)
Who else will love their smell, their touch?
Clothes of different sizes, drawers full, folded
Smooth, all ironed, waiting
For that right occasion.
Oh, I’m sated.
Poet, artist, mate and human being
Tired of collecting
For the sake of vain, illusionary
Aspirations gobbled up by goblins.
But tomorrow, woebegone,
I’ll be back buying.
And acquiring
Squirrel to the marrowbone.
Tired Of Collecting 3.3.2012
A Sense Of ‘The Ridiculous; Our Times, Our Culture II;
Arlene Corwin
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Holding On To January 2012
07 Mar 2012 Leave a comment
in 2012, a sense of the ridiculous, circling round time II Tags: February, January, nostalgia, time
Holding On To January
I tried to hold on to January.
It didn’t function. Gone.
Surprise!
A February.
Tried to grab a ninety-three
Arbitrarily.
I’d found a piece
From eighty-three, and eighty-three
Touched yesterday.
I tried to hold on to last year,
Last month, last week.
They leak away into vacuum
And attempt at memory.
There is a sense of the ridiculous
In all of this.
Holding On To January 2.25.2012
Circling Round Time II; A Sense Of The Ridiulous;
Arlene Corwin
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