It wasn’t my intention to write such a ‘long song’. Always having the instinct to keep a poem the length of an A4, the original intention was to write 2 separate poems. Then I realized that the two poems were saying the same thing.
Keen About The Meaning
We should be keen about the meaning!
(Isn’t that a darling rhyme?)
What, you ask, what meaning what?
It’s life of course!
A meaning that defines its course, it’s force, its progress.
Life’s life you may say. It may be,
Yet as far as life’s intent,
We tend to minimize its main objective.
Not survival – something more: a true ascent.
Some go by it. Some deny it.
We should chase it because life’s a race
Against an absolute and unrelenting, limited ol’ spell
Worth probing not just for surviving or for breathing well.
There are yummy things worth aiming at:
This game we play, take part in
And would like to win
Contains as trophies: peace of mind and understanding,
Satisfaction and wellbeing.
One more gain: freedom from fear –
Taking in fate’s whimsies with a cheerful air.
(Dalai Lama seems to do it. Others too. You’ve seen it, know it).
Why demean this most significant of questions
When the question in itself
Opens the highway to
Distress-less–ness;
Happiness!
Everyday I read poetic utterances:
Poetry of loves lost, never felt, hungered after,
Longed for laughter,
Sorrow at the world’s condition,
Unexpressed scorn and submission.
Everything one undergoes
And everyone one comes across;
Cynicism, doubt, distrust,
Mistrust, injustice, disenchantment.
Yet, I’m always here to say:
It’s true and happening BUT, circumstance,
Each energy’s phenomenon
Contains its equal counterpart;
The negative that has a heart:
A parallel but better.
Life has meaning and intention to the letter.
Keen About The Meaning 4.28.2018
Circling Round Reality; Arlene Corwin
Arlene Corwin Poetry 