Lumps & Bumps

29 May 2016 6 Comments

by arlenecorwin in 2016, birth death & in between II, circling round aging Tags: ,

 

There are wrinkles, lines,

Osteo- this, osteo- that,

And then the bumps –

Perplexing lumps

From nowhere,

Showing up and growing,

Coming, and not going.

Bother!

You think cancer, other

Causes and annoyances:

Worry, costs and doctors.

Signs and trends!

Oh, brother,

Will they never end,

These changes downward foul and fetid,

Sour, dour, cowardly?

Unsightly forms

Informing us

Of beauty’s loss, songs unsung,

Boss death and wretched other wrongs?

 

Lumps & Bumps 5.29.2016

Circling Round Aging; Birth, Death & In Between II; 5.29.2016

Arlene Corwin

The Wrinkled Years

28 May 2016 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2016, circling round aging Tags:

 

Fifty, sixty or so years,

Some few lines form front of ears;

Lines under jaw and in the chin,

‘Tween brows, ‘long cheekbone,

Just beginning,

Still alone

and undeveloped.

Forearm skin a smidgeon snakelike,

Upper little marblecake-like;

Sarcopenic muscles forming,

Throwing in the towel, collapsing

And re-forming skin to hanging,

Puckering well nigh commencing.

Brand-new body parts to dwell on.

Thinning skin and hardening skin,

Aging’s mystery within.

Shrinking muscle,

Bulging knuckle,

New-ache joint.

There is no use in finding fault,

For who would one accuse?

All you have to do is point,

Looking while you paint your face,

Looking at the face you paint.

Looking while you pluck the chin,

Looking at the chin you’ve plucked.

The new-grown hair: laconic,

There, some in their lair.

Lips gone,

Knee-pain

Moving on –

Because you can’t go back again –

Can’t re-gage the back-gone page;

Wrinkling years become the wrinkled years,

Or wrinkléd which sounds more poetic.

Deepening, alas pathetic,

Each to last

The rest

Of living.

 

The Wrinkled Years 5.28.2016

Circling Round Aging;

Arlene Corwin

 

 

Guess Who?

23 May 2016 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in Uncategorized Tags: ,

 

Never moves.

Doesn’t care

If it is day, night,

Dark, light –

You can

Make advances

When

And how,

Or even if

You will,

Active or still;

Begot

The whole darned lot

Before it ever took its form.

He/she/it or what?’

Guess who?

Sitting Outside A Day In May

21 May 2016 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2016, birth death & in between II Tags:

        

I find myself not only wondering [but]

Thirsting, needing to know when and how they died, [but]

Thoughts or suffering or not: in short,

The state before and during…

 

I observe a skin that’s wrinkling,

Drying out and shrinking,

Hear and spy a bird in tree,

See the freshness, spring’s new growth,

The only thing I really see is death, a passing.

 

I allow myself my breaths,

The moods, desires –

All that goes along,

Forgetting for the most part.

 

Deep down I see the buds of parting

And an emptiness because

I have no answers.

All that I can do is wait and act and meditate

As if life equaled all time-in-the-world.

 

Every year in spring

I find I’m writing, charting

Charting age unconsciously,

Literally marking time.

 

Not sad, not glad but emptier

Than years before,

(or maybe more).

Noticing, acknowledging a substance;

The substantial underlying all the grandeur.

 

Sitting Outside A Day In May 5.21.2016

Birth, Death & In Between II;

Arlene Corwin

Goddesses & Godlessness

18 May 2016 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2016, circling round reality Tags:

 

Some feel best with goddesses

Or godlessness

To beat the odds

Of death’s finality,

Life’s unpredictability.

Where stand I with jumping mind,

A monkey mind?

Something in it knows it’s trying;

Something knows the I that’s eyeing

Cycles of existence,

Phases and the way life wends and winds

And weaves and threads

The paths that seem to be

Reality.

All roads lead to Rome,

Or do they?

 

Goddesses & Godlessness 5.18.2016

Circling Round Reality;

Arlene Corwin

The Most Published Book In The World

17 May 2016 1 Comment

by arlenecorwin in 2016, our times our cultureII Tags:

 

If the Bible is,

As Google says,

The planet Earth’s

Most published book

(the recent estimate five billion!)

Why is the milieu around us

Falling, fouling, failing us?

Why are industries, their leaders.

(clearly they, their families readers)

Greedily corrupted,

Profit-minded and self-interested;

Continents and Christians,

Countries near and distant,

Church, priest, nun and clergy

(those who venerate the liturgy)

Bound to lust like all the rest of us?

Why are charities caught stealing

When they’re reading, spreading, dealing out

The Word

They’ve heard

Is God?

 

The Most Published Book In The World 5.16.2016

Our Times, Our Culture II;

Arlene Corwin

 

 

 

Calmer Waters

16 May 2016 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2016, circling round reality Tags:

 

Pressing, squeezing out a meaning

From a theme so oft repeated –

Said anew, reviewed, renewed, transformed:

Different angle,

Greater distance.

Forty back-seen years of knowledge,

Growing deeper, insight now

Examined and engaged in

With a scientific eye

To see it bearing fruit.

In calmer waters.

 

Calmer Waters 5.16.2016

Circling Round Reality;

Arlene Corwin

A Slice Of Sloth

15 May 2016 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2016, definitely didactic Tags:

 

I’ve a goodly slice of sloth.

Not total self, but there it is,

A chunk disguised,

Not recognized by those around,

But I, I see it, know it,

Bowing, yes, kowtowing to it.

Here I sit admitting it

To get it off my chest and onto paper.

 

Much below the conscious,

Goodness knows

Why one must beep a caper

Steeped in bloopers

Onto paper.

 

Definitely didactic –

(I’ve a slice of that inside me too.)

One hopes that you

Get something

From what may be vice, deficiency and weakness

Or a strong point, good point, asset, strength.

 

A slice of anything can be an anything

To anyone

Depending on

Its use.

 

A Slice Of Sloth 11.27.2014

Definitely Didactic;

Arlene Corwin

Waffle Iron

14 May 2016 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2016, a sense of the ridiculous II Tags:

 

 

How I waffle on

About the waffle iron I own.

I can waffle cheese or bread,

Any thought I’ve in my head,

And get those pie-shaped, square-ish,

Deep indented flowers

Without giving hours

To an energy-devouring oven.

How I love my waffle iron,

Its design and toasty end.

 

Waffle Iron 5.12.2016

A Sense Of The Ridiculous II;

Arlen Corwin

I Woke This Morning Without The Need To Pray II

10 May 2016 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2016, God Book II, pure nakedness, the processes II Tags:

 

We spend our lives,

Our nights, out days

Alone.

When I awoke this morn,

I said to It

“I’m glad that I have company”.

I felt that I had company:

The main advantage of believing.

 

It’s company we want

When there is no one there

To vaunt our talents, thoughts unvoiced,

Ornamenting faith and hope and trust.

 

“Hello”, said I,

Without an expectation.

Strange sensation –

No one there except the air,

But comforted and confident

The whole day long,

[As if] nothing can go wrong –

 

What could be better?

To follow impulses and intuition

To the letter.

I awoke this day

Without the need to pray,

But needed company.

 

I Woke This Day Without The Need to Pray 5.10.2016

Pure Nakedness; God Book II; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II;

Arlene Corwin

 

 

 

 

 

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