27 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, circling round reality, our times our cultureII, small stories book Tags: Letting go, Letting go over and over...
The Present Is The Past Tomorrow
The now that is this moment
Is the past tomorrow,
Sorrow passing. Good,
No, excellent to let it go
Since survival is, the whole time
Letting go.
I’ve a friend
Who’s lost her fortune
On a stock she thought was foolproof.
Poof!
Paralysis; depression.
If she’d only grasp
The present,
For it is the past
Tomorrow.
The Present Is The Past Tomorrow 4.26.2013
Our Times, Our CultureII; Circling Round Reality; Small Stories Book;
Arlene Corwin
27 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, nature of & in reality Tags: we are poorer for our weaknesses, we have our weaknesses
Weaknesses
We’ve got ‘em:’
Mental, ‘motional,
Physical; to know ‘em
Deal with…
Those over- under-used, ignored,
Denied;
Based on the vanities
And made excuses for;
Expectations that should be replaced
By gratitude.
Weaknesses
That make us poor-er.
Weaknesses 4.27.2013
Nature Of & In Reality;
Arlene Corwin
23 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, a sense of the ridiculous, the processes II Tags: there is no such thing as finished, things are never finished
Tinker, Tinker II
Nothing finished,
Nothing ended, done, completed;
Nothing over.
Possibly vague edges and…
Another and another… other
Possibilities.
When [you are] detached the insides
Are as beautiful as outsides:
Glimpse of futures
In the present.
Let us hope the light
comes through.
Tinker, tinker, fiddling ‘round.
Polishing to put it right,
It’s never finished.
Be contentedly content.
Tinker, Tinker 4.23.2013 (1st version see 2006)
A Sense of The Ridiculous; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II;
Arlene Corwin
23 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, cat book, circling round nature, the processes II Tags: cats, comfort, existence, nomads
Wandering Around My Mind
Sitting comfortably:
32 inch white TV;
Documentary;
Himalayas:
Freezing folk, surviving, thriving;
Minus thirty centigrade.
Nomads sixty looking ninety,
Tending goat kids tenderly,
While watching out for
Predators: cats big as tigers.
Albert Cat is lying licking,
Right leg sticking
Over sofa like a king,
No bird of prey to worry him,
No giant scary cat to fear;
Not understanding what he’s got,
Not cognizant about his lot deluxe
And what it means;
Contrast between cats and screens,
Life’s brevity,
The prematurely
Agéd
Nomad.
Here, a revelationary
Sadness: cryptic, specious maybe,
Forcing pen to paper.
Wandering Around My Mind 2.17.2013/4.23.2013
Cat Book; Circling Round Nature; the Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II;
Arlene Corwin
23 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, definitely didactic, the processes II Tags: don't lose it - concentration, practice it - concentration, the importance of concentration, the mystery of concentration
Not Concentrating
You don’t know when you have become
Unconcentrated.
It’s so subtle.
Word missed, phrase, your mate’s
Last sentence.
Don’t know what or that you’ve missed…
Till someone asks you,
“What was that he said?” What was that name?”
You could be growing hard of hearing,
Or you’re just not concentrating.
Take the second to your heart.
Not Concentrating 4.23.2013
The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; Definitely Didactic;
Arlene Corwin
22 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, God book, the processes II Tags: there are no tags for this
Giving Everything
No mantra person,
I see circumstance
Where repetition is the key;
Repetition of the kind
Where mind say what it needs in words
As simple as a dumpling;
Dictum, offering and temple.
With no choice and no holds barred
I voice an unheard company.
Giving Everything To You 3.22.2013
God Book; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II;
Arlene Corwin
20 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in 1994, 2013, nature of & in reality, to the child mystic Tags: really?, what is aloneness
Waiting For Something To Happen
I am a monad, a unit, an entity;
Seed of myself, unrelated to time.
Nomadic monad, a watery sea
Who happens to breed and bleed
By an enzyme collection that passes for me.
Don’t be duped.
Kinetically energized, I can make sounds,
Make the rounds,
Still alone.
A monad, a unit and clone
From an ancestor I’ve never seen,
An ancestor I’ve only heard about, read about, known
About all of the life that I’ve been.
So I sit here waiting for something to happen,
Knowing that I am a monad expecting
The trappings of clappings from heavenly
Creatures unsown:
Waiting for something to happen.
Waiting For Something To Happen 8.13.1994
To The Child Mystic; Nature Of & In Reality;
Arlene Corwin
19 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, God book Tags: brain cells, building new brain cells, growing perception, n, neurogenesis, serendipity, synchronicity, thinking about God
Standing At The Sink
Standing at the sink
Thinking
About you, God:
Focus of doubt’s questioning
And thank you’s for
The things I more
And more perceive.
Don’t you, dear reader, bore yourself
Drifting around in thoughts circuitous?
I recommend this exercise
Brought down from practice –
Mine.
Let’s see.
There seems to be a correlation
Between
That
And what
Rewards I get.
Some kind of mystery
I simply
Take with open fist:
Synchronic-
ity
Wed to serendipity.
You’ve heard of neurogenesis?
(No doubt you have).
The brain keeps growing,
Brain cells building new brain cells.
And I, and you, and we
Empowered, in control
By virtue of the things we do.
And thinking about you, God
Seems to subsidize
The brain supply
With more than any other thing I know, so,
Simply,
Standing at the sink has made me grow
This very minute. Oh!
Standing At The Sink 4.19.2013
God Book;
Arlene Corwin
19 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, circling round reality Tags: friends and such, paradoxes, vanities, we need people, we're basically alone
Miracles & Paradoxes
It is a miracle,
A paradox;
We are alone and yet
We need…
Oh yes, we need:
Acquaintances, mates, friends, companions,
Confidants – chums to remember –
Hence,
those facebooks, twitters, linkedins.
Those around: surround sound.
Yet,
The facebook, twitter, linkedin mates
Bring on and out anxieties,
The latent hates;
That both inspire and flout
The vanities within us.
Blessing/pox ;
Miracle and paradox.
Miracles and Paradoxes 4.19.2013
Circling Round Reality;
Arlene Corwin
18 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in 2012, swedish book, vaguely about music II Tags: creativeness, improvising, jazz, mindfulness, the distance between seconds, yoga
All The Way From Sweden
All the way from Sweden
I can’t help but natter on:
Poetry and
Jazz and
Being,
Flying there to meet you and present myself
Out of the question.
Sitting
In my white
Room eating
Home-baked buttered roll with cheese,
Drinking cups of tea
To please my knife
And spoon and cup,
Eat, drinking up
While writing –
This because I like to share,
Not being able to transport myself
To where
You are.
Jazz: the art of improvising;
Mindfulness – a Zen.
The song a mantra/koan,
A yogic thing one ought to do
While in the bath,
While on the road, in bed
Or looking through the window
At a cloud:
Everything and anything a jazz.
Life: the distance
Between seconds,
Record kept inside your cells
And held there
All the years of breath,
The is your wealth
In action.
All The Way From Sweden 4.18.2012
Vaguely About Music II; Swedish Book;
Arlene Corwin
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