31 Mar 2014 Leave a comment
in 2014, God book, to the child mystic II Tags: I like to write about God
Everywhere
You’re everywhere.
Everywhere, you non-down here,
Up, out, far, near –
Do they call it immanence?
(Must look it up).
I think it is.
(Just looked it up).
You are within,
Existing in
All parts of universe
(Or universes).
First of firsts,
Bursting with joy
I curtsy to you.
Everywhere 4.1.2014
God Book; To The Child Mystic II;
Arlene Corwin
28 Mar 2014 Leave a comment
in 2014, circling round nature Tags: who can ignore the arrival of spring!
Spring Again
The cat is mad.
Some plants are dead –
But underneath, and over death
We sit outside, calmly alive
Drinking our tea.
Perhaps the plants are being saved
And drinking plant-y tea for two
Too.
Spring Again 3.28.2014
Circling Round Nature;
Arlene Corwin
28 Mar 2014 Leave a comment
in 2014, birth death & in between II Tags: life goes devastatingly fast
And Then It’s Over
You read a story. Alice Munro.
Then in the middle, of a sudden.
You’re back in Manhattan,
Twenty something,
Very slim and conscious of it;
Dressed in candy-stripey slacks that cling:
You’re singing young; time lacking meaning;
In the park on Riverside –
Then hark, you’re back in Sweden
Once again
In bed,
The story partly read
With you not knowing what it said
Now almost eighty, thinking,
“Then it’s over.”
And Then It’s Over 3.28.2014
Birth, Death & In Between II;
Arlene Corwin
21 Mar 2014 Leave a comment
in 2014, definitely didactic, the processes II Tags: Keep at your thing
Talent Wins Out: Mussorgsky & Turing
Talent wins out.
Not living to see it – he, she or I –
There it is winning. Modil Mussorgsky:
Reviled, poor thing.
Sure of his talent;
In drunkenness singing it out
To the beer halls and reveling, rivaling
Borodin, Cui, the best;
Dying, not knowing, kowtowing; his motto
To never desist.
Another deceased
And genius of geniuses: Alan M Turing,
Mathematician of the highest order,
Codebreaker, thinker, philosopher;
More, much, much more; turning
Mind to the needs of mankind –
Nobody needed him – wanted his kind.
Even this day a new theory confirmed!
Driven to suicide. Gay. We were blind.
Reviled, revealed, revived and revered:
Such a world!
But talents win out in the end.
Talent Wins Out 3.20.2014
The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; Definitely Didactic;
Arlene Corwin
16 Mar 2014 Leave a comment
in 2014, birth death & in between II, circling round vanities II, nature of & in reality Tags: a good thing, I hope
Dying Vanity
You watch
With no opinion anymore.
Phenomenon phenomenal,
No point of view; just observation.
It is nature’s secret still.
Though even watching can be vanity
(why eye subjectifed at all?)
By this time, you know
Synonyms , their nuances;
Change at work, without a stop,
Processing a skin, the nameless stuff within;
Growing, rotting, multiplying, disappearing:
Inscrutable.
Mental muttering diminishing
One is reduced to watching
Like the helpless scientist one is.
Dying Vanity 3.15.2014
Circling Round Vanities II; Nature Of & In Reality; Birth, Death & In Between II;
Arlene Corwin
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