30 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, a sense of the ridiculous, birth death & in between II, circling round wrinkles, nature of & in reality, pure nakedness Tags: being nearly eighty, the beauty of aging, the paradox of aging
Lovely Age
It’s lovely to be almost eighty.
No one takes you seriously,
Paradoxically,
Everyone takes what you say as wise.
You can be odd or unconventional,
Antagonize the stiffest rule,
Be clown or fool:
Absurdity’s anomaly,
Riddle(d) with the irony
Of being nearly eighty.
Is that it’s a lovely age.
Lovely Age 7.23.2013
Circling Round Wrinkles; Birth, Death & In Between II;
Nature Of & In Reality; A Sense Of The Ridiculous; Pure Nakedness;
Arlene Corwin
29 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, circling round eros II, nature of & in reality Tags: aging & sexual longing, sex, the evolution of sexual longing
A Quality of Chastity
He used to need an orgasm each yearly day
And then he noticed
That he didn’t.
He was gladdened.
Somewhat knocked for six, shocked and amazed
(a habit doesn’t go in days)
No more the need,
He felt/was freed,
The hand no longer
Going ‘down there’ first thing in the morning,
Maybe last thing in the night,
(in between times too, you never know).
Had it happened gradually?
“Ah,” he said,” So this is aging!”
Steered no longer by sin’s wages,
Neither victim, dupe or prey,
More, sage and master of sin’s nature,
He communed with nature (his) perceiving that
Serenity –
A quality of chastity,
Is nice.
(is peace).
A Quality Of Chastity 7.29.2013
Circling Round Eros II; Nature Of & In Reality;
Arlene Corwin
24 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, circling round eros II, love relationships II Tags: chastity, doing without, doing without sex, happiness, love, sex, sexlessness
What’s The Fuss About?
They love each other –
Yes, they do.
Perhaps more than I, you; and yet,
The sex drive has diminished.
Climaxes an effort.
Touted drive expounded
Western TV world around,
Do they miss it?
Not a bit.
They love each other;
Cuddle, touch;
They love each other very much.
Petting, playing – with
Erotic word and kiss sufficing
They don’t miss that pulse
That pounding thump,
That throbbing greatest of deceivers,
Hidden steerer not aware of
Goals and roads pretending to be real;
A blend of drive and tangibility:
Status, goods and family:
Sex:
What’s the fuss about?
It’s possible to live without it
And be happy, love’s vitality
Enough.
What’s The Fuss About? 7.24.2013
Love Relationships; Circling Round Eros II:
Arlene Corwin
21 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, circling round science, nature of & in reality Tags: creation, inexhaustibility, nature and you are inexhaustible
Inexhaustible Combinations
In the actions of the universe
The mixtures, combinations are un-numbered,
Inexhaustible; each instant a momentum,
Coming into being: showing up.
How strengthening!
What you can become an unpredictable.
A Mozart, Jarrett, Rembrandt, Lars Lerin;
The known, the almost known, the still unknown; your own
Peculiar combination;
Own peculiar star-crossed course.
The secret: giving in.
The stars don’t fight,
The stuff around all giving in
To forces that determine.
The thousand adjectives of force –
The verbs the nouns,
The countless ways, attempts, nuance
To pinpoint energies
That have no end. And so,
Be daring, never knowing in advance
How this applies to you.
Inexhaustible Combinations 7.21.2013
Circling Round Science; Nature Of & In Reality;
Arlene Corwin
20 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, definitely didactic, the processes II, vaguely about music II Tags: change, change - a step to happiness, change means survival, jazz, not sticking to the old, the art of improvisation, the need for improvisation, you've got to change
Getting Bored
I get bored so easily.
When playing a tune
Nine hundred times,
I’ve just got to change it.
Improvising, that’s the name.
Who can do the same life in, life out?
We need to change – a good thing.
We are variety machines.
Change can be nuance –
Nothing big; subtle, slow in coming.
But, if you’ve got the talent and the ear
You hear: inventing, extemporizing,
Winging-it, ad-libbing ad libitum.
Creatively and on the spot
You feel you’ve got
To make up something new
To satisfy you, and
Oh, it quenches:
The worn replaced, its freshness
Making you a happy fledgling; re-born.
Lose the fear!
It’s here you want to chase it.
Clinch the moment.
Let boredom take you to the next
Bewitching instance.
Getting Bored 7.20.2013
Vaguely About Music II; Definitely Didactic; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II;
Arlene Corwin
17 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in 2012, 2013, circling round computers Tags: oh beautiful computer
Turning On The Mac
Turning on the Mac,
The first you see
Is universes in infinity;
Potential endless,
Births and dyings back to back.
They’re clever,
Those designers,
Wondrous, beautiful!
They’ve got me. I’m their customer
Forever,
Caught in the potential put
Before me, every time
I lift the cover.
Turning On The Mac 2.13.2013 (found on a scrap 1.3.2012)
Circling Round Computers;
Arlene Corwin
17 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, I Is Always You is We, the processes II Tags: always write the truth, speak the truth, the truth from you, we're all in the same boat
I Talk To My Generation
I talk to my generation
It, the only talk I know;
Plain-speak, as Dante used,
And Shakespeare, Hemingway,
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
In the hope
And expectation
That what’s true is always true,
No matter how banal the means
At your disposal. Future
Generations spot the I
That’s you, I’m sure.
I Talk To My Generation 4.12.2013
The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; I Is Always You Is We;
Arlene Corwin
16 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, circling round yoga, special people special occasions, swedish book Tags: inspiration is everywhere, sources of inspiration
Gym Teacher: A Dedication
Inspiration all around & everywhere:
The teacher – who knows about
My body, his, and everyone’s;
Inventing movements, game/combined,
Exercising mind,
Finding the weaknesses, the strengths behind;
The teacher reaches out to every muscle
In a room of tousled
hairdos.
Balls, weights, mats, walls, bicycles
That chase our fates. It would seem that
Lessons last well after… Teacher,
Guru-of-the-gym: a treasure.
One’s seen those men, not worth their salt,
Exalted; so-called gurus,
Shedding so-called light.
Gym teacher (mine) gives might
That also wakens wisdom –
His domain, his specialty
Deserving as can be.
Inspiration all around
To those who see it.
All around & everywhere.
Gym Teacher 7.16.2013
Special People, Special Occasions; Swedish Book; Circling Round Yoga;
Arlene Corwin
16 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in 1995, 2013, circling round science, nature of & in reality, to the child mystic Tags: the mysterious science of faith
Faith Is A Chemical Dynamic
Faith is a chemical dynamic
Affecting cells, making them fresh:
(The celestial and flesh)
Not a dogma, cant –
More pledge, a pact;
The brain engrained in wish and want
With roots spread out in waiting
For a door to open wide,
And you a bride inside.
Faith sanctifies.
It unifies.
It systematizes without system,
Sees the thread in things uncommon,
Making fractions into one:
It always gives an added power,
Energy beyond the hour;
Puts a slant on everything,
(Which is its strength and shortcoming.)
You never go beyond its vision,
Never get beyond its zone.
No clever man or master plan
Or great endeavor pulls the lever.
In itself a friendly law,
It is specific to your wishes.
Faith is bound by its tradition.
Nothing great can be erected,
Nothing lasting be affected.
Leave the hills, reach for the stars:
Faith is chemically dynamic.
Faith Is A Chemical Dynamic 7.17.1995/2013
Nature Of & In Reality; To The Child Mystic; Circling Round Science;
Arlene Corwin
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15 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, circling round science, circling round time II Tags: time, what is time?, where is there no time?
The Place Where Time Isn’t
With the pain involved in time’s necessity,
One’s struck by wondering;
A thought invented, possibly inspired;
Just abstract speculation:
Someplace where time isn’t.
Someplace where
There
Is no change, no building up,
No degradation;
Nothing flowing,
Slowing down.
No pulse, no breath,
No death.
A place where time isn’t:
A place;
An is;
But time is not in the equation.
The Place Where Time Isn’t 7.14.2013
Circling Round Time II; Circling Round Science;
Arlene Corwin
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