November | 2018 | Arlene Corwin Poetry

I Get These Offers

30 Nov 2018 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2018, circling round reality, I Is Always You is We, Uncategorized Tags: No rush to name and fame!

I Get These Offers📚✍️

Week by week I get these offers.
Promises whose fluff
Assures a writer stuff
That’s not exactly useless
But expensive and illusionary.

It takes time to make a name.
A name that lasts,
Is fast and fastened
In the hearts and minds.

There’s really no success
That’s instantaneous.
It is skill that must be owned
And grown –
Which skill takes seasons,
Brilliance honed,
The phases gone through
To develop worthiness,
True value.

Be authentic always, all ways.
Don’t be rushed.
Move slowly, without haste,
Not wasting precious time
On offers ego-full but profitless.

Offers there will always be.
Onuses too: three,
Four, five and six…
Get your kicks
From filling coffers with
A creativity that genuinely sticks
For always.

I Get These Offers 11.30.2018 I Is Always We Is You; Circling Round Reality; Arlene Nover Corwin

You Can’t Beat A Book

28 Nov 2018 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2018, the processes II, Uncategorized Tags: Books are the best!

You Can’t Beat A Book✍️📚📖📕📗📘

📙
All kinds of new and fangled means –
The latest bangle; trendy,
Industry’s technology
Will never meet
The human need to touch and fondle.

Who can touch a digit?
You can fidget with devices,
Till the cows come home.
Nothing can replace a tome.

What woman in a bookclub
Would prefer to dub
An ebook as the next weeks title?
Scrolls and parchment are immortal,
Reproducible for centuries.
Digit language zero/one can only chortle
As each zero/one ceases to be
In cyberspace vacuity.

Throughout all time
Books have been memorised,
Their novelists immortalised.
Would you feel wise, have won a prize
By memorising words you’ve seen
On screens backed by machines
You can’t depend on?

I am sure you’d rather
Smell the leather
Etched by some expert engraver
With a genius and a love for covers.

You can’t beat a book
For reading, touching, smell and look
With not a cell that needs rebooting.
It’s in man’s genetic cast
To hit upon ideas; the race is curious.
But progress is a crook that hooks,
Invites
Yet blights
For just that reason:
Both a blessing and a prison.

Books have content, naturally.
Bad, good, middling, for they
Represent the sweep of thought
In all its magnanimity,
Eventual polarity.

I write about the book as object,
And maintain you cannot beat
A book for ‘tweeting’
And completing thought as art.

You Can’t Beat Books 11.28.2018 The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; Arlene Nover Corwin
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Whatever You Concentrate On…

27 Nov 2018 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2018, nature of & in reality, the processes II, Uncategorized Tags: Concentration is essential!

Whatever You Concentrate On (Is Where Your Mind Will Go)🧘‍♀️✍️

Whatever you concentrate on
Is where your mind will go.
And where mind goes
Is chaos or bliss,
Contentment’s piece of paradise,
Well-being’s peace in the same place…

But who can concentrate?
So few.
Can you?
If not,
It’s time to start.

Concentration is the heart
Of quieting the mind;
And quieting the mind
Provides control,
Conveys to soul
Its role
In quality
And quantity.

What does it mean to concentrate?
Simply put:
To bring one’s focus toward a pivot,
Stay there,
And it doesn’t matter why or where:
The chosen theme’s what matters.
In scientific parlance,
It’s to strengthen the proportion of a substance
By reducing or diluting
So the form that’s left Is optimum.
Envision sum, force, power,
You, the flower
Of your future.

Lose the blues!
Ponder, muse!
Deliberate! Contemplate!
Nourish life and make things right:
Focus well and concentrate!

Whatever You Concentrate On 11.25.2018 Nature In & Of Reality; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative Ii; Arlene Nover Corwin

To Those Who Feel Alone

24 Nov 2018 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in Uncategorized

In response to a TV insert on the feeling of remoteness and aloneness or, of someone who has lost a loved one.

To Those Who Feel Alone🤔✍️

It is a philosophic truth – just is,

Everything that you experience

Everyone does too.

Everything you’ve undergone,

Everyone has also.

It’s only ever variations on a theme,

A transient beam

And only that.

Aloneness, sadness, longing;

You feel you are the only in the world: the wronged one,

And you feel even more forlorn.

It is an ego’s ignorance,

A vanity and innocence.

If only you could learn this,

You’d become and stay harmonious.

You are distinct, particular,

Original, unique and yet,

You’re ordinary, general, one of the many…

Army of… Don’t fret! You are society,

The world.

A rosebud.

To Those Who Feel Alone 11.24.2018 I Is Always You Is We; Arlene Nover Corwin

That Instead Of Why

23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in Uncategorized

That Instead Of Why🤔
(Gosh, I wish a Facebook entry had the possibility of italics. If it does, I can’t find it. Forgive me reader. You’ll just have to put the emphasis on what you will).
But do, do read it. It’s an indispensable concept.

THAT Instead of WHY✍️

It is an old Buddhistic view
(Or so I’ve read).
So, what I say is nothing new
(as I sit up in bed
reflecting
Over life’s significance –
And it’s technique.
Life is the dance – a dance
Of ‘now’ and ‘change’, its ‘change’ in ‘now’,
The ever-now the ‘is’ of all;
The ‘always change’ the part that is
The core dynamic, a-romantic,*
‘Now’ being both force and static.
Think about it.

Life is ‘that’ instead of ‘why’.
There’s always ‘why’
But ‘why’ takes mental time away
From what is happening,
Is actual, transpiring, arising, being…
Why is downright tiring.

The moral is to not spend time in questioning,
But throw yourself into the acting,
Focussing on what’s in you
As world goes round,
As life flies by,
As outer problems grow and sigh.

Life is ‘that’ and what gives meaning,
Life is that which shows the way:
Yours, no other’s.
Therefore don’t be smothered by
Analysis. The truth will show
In every choice your mind gives voice to.

That is what your inner knows
In its capacity to grow.
An inner guide and light bulb glowing
In each juncture of the maze of days
You spend on terra’s firma: Praise
It all!

(‘a-‘ meaning the prefix not).

That Instead Of Why 11.3.2018 Nature Of & In Reality; Circling Round Reality; Arlene Never Corwin

My Unconventional Life

22 Nov 2018 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in Uncategorized

My Unconventional Life (to be continued, surely)

Awake with something wholly different on my mind:
That darned poetic drive
With its machinery and striving taking over,
Skin-deep first, reasoned second, (wisdom in),
Rhyme and meter; fun as fun,
Scholar sage replacing age.

I’ve become a Pavlov’ dog.
Waking up,
A milk-in-coffee cup,
Some vitamins ingested.
Nightgown dressed, pillow still pressed,
My Siamese twin, a pen and pad;
Ideas suggested
By a phrase I’ve read in bed
Or see on TV right before me:
Put together by a brain that’s mine
And that strange force one can’t define;
Force I cannot find and do not try to –
There, I know through
Ageing’s power of maturation.

A conglomeration.
One more daily benediction.
An endorsement of support;
A go-aead, thumbs up, a sign of admiration
Coming from a no place in particular.

Day launched, there’ll be some potpourri,
Some medley, miscellany
Gathering as day goes on,
The hours showing what to do;
The ‘whats’ a multitude, the ‘whats’ a few.

So like a Schwarzenegger,
“I’ll be back” to speak to you
Through word or song or what I’m equal to
That day, that time, that juncture.

My Unconventional Life 11.22.2018 Pure Nakedness II; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II: Arlene Nover Corwin

My Unconventional Life

22 Nov 2018 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2018, birth death & In between III, Pure Nakedness II, Uncategorized Tags: an unconventional life - a good thing.

My Unconventional Life

(to be continued, surely)

Awake with something wholly different on my mind:

That darned poetic drive

With its machinery and striving taking over,

Skin-deep first, reasoned second, (wisdom in),

Rhyme and meter; fun as fun,

Scholar sage replacing age.

I’ve become a Pavlov’ dog.

Wake up,

A milky coffee cup,

Some vitamins ingested.

Nightgown dressed, pillow still pressed,

My Siamese twin, a pen and pad;

Ideas suggested

By a phrase I’ve read in bed

Or see on TV right before me:

Put together by a brain that’s mine

And that strange force one can’t define;

Force I cannot find and do not try to –

There, I know through

Ageing’s power of maturation.

A conglomeration.

One more daily benediction.

An endorsement of support;

A go-aead, thumbs up, a sign of admiration

Coming from a no place in particular.

Day launched, there’ll be some potpourri,

Some medley, miscellany

Gathering as day goes on,

The hours showing what to do;

The ‘whats’ a multitude, the ‘whats’ a few.

So like a Schwarzenegger,

“I’ll be back” to speak to you

Through word or song or what I’m equal to

That day, that time, that juncture.

My Unconventional Life 11.22.2018 Pure Nakedness II; Birth, Death & In Between III; Arlene Nover Corwin

A Prophet Almost Never Profits (In His Own Home Town)

21 Nov 2018 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2018, circling round reality, Didactic II, to the child mystic II, Uncategorized Tags: Keep Evolving

The phrase came through at a sleepless 3am. Couldn’t resist, of course.

A Prophet Almost Never Profits (In His Own Home Town)

Friends have a view of you

That’s partly/seldom/never true.

Take a man and wife:

Seldom on each other’s wavelength.

Keep evolving.

Don’t expect applause;

Expectoration maybe (sadly).

Character and person what it is, you can’t

Require anyone to understand.

Keep evolving.

No one knows but you – perhaps a chosen few,

The depth of insight you impart.

You’re not a braggart.

Keep evolving.

Laugh, live, giving all you can.

Need no recognition,

Recognition the illusion!

History and legend

Tell the fatal end of

Jesuses and Joans of Arc,

Inventors, artists, scientists…

The lists go on.

So, misinterpreted, wise, good,

Relax and keep on getting better,

Without one small letter

Of desire for validation

Or a single commendation.

Friends you grew with,

Kin you played with,

Neighbours living right next door

Will always house a poor and limited

Idea of you, since all idea

Is mere

Projection.

Keep evolving.

Learn this precept and relax.

Cut the bands with thinking’s axe.

Stretching, changing, giving out

The best you’re got,

And like the laughing Buddha,

In your secret philosophic hall,

Call to lips a prophet’s ha, ha, ha!

And go on being prophet.

A Prophet Almost Never Profits… 11.21.2018 Circling Round Reality;To The Child Mystic II; Definitely Didactic II; Arlene Nover Corwin

I Like To Wash The Dishes

19 Nov 2018 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2018, a sense of the ridiculous II, our times our cultureII Tags: It sounds ridiculous but I like it!

I Like To Wash The Dishes😇

I haven’t got a family

Of five or six or twelve.

I like to dive and delve

into the soapy water,

Hands bacterially free and pure,

Warm and clean;

What others buy machines for,

I have got the time for.

i don’t mind the slime or

Plates, knives, forks

That leave the table veggie stuck,

Glasses filled with unknown yuck…

I used to mind

But then I found

That washing every dish by hand

Gives opportunity to bend the knees,

Stand on toes,

Think in poetry or prose

(just like this here)

An opportunity to spread good cheer,

And possibility

To see things differently,

A different angle

Spurred on by some wash-dish angel.

Isn’t that bodacious!*

That is why

I like to wash and dry

The daily dishes.

*bodacious; a kind of slang meaning simply terrific or wonderful!

I Like To Wash The Dishes 11.19.2018 Our Times, Our Culture II; Arlene Nover Corwin

Finding Out The Truth

19 Nov 2018 Leave a comment

by arlenecorwin in 2018, circling round reality, nature of & in reality, Uncategorized Tags: Finding out the truth is key

Another one of those days on a roll. Wait until you see the next poem coming up. I Like To Wash The Dishes.

Finding Out The Truth📚

(the simplest of tips)

What else is there in vigour’s plan?

What is the purpose and design?

To find out who you are,

And carry out the findings

(Near and far) because you care –

That’s all you have midst all around,

The ground of you, your guiding star.

So you search, release and gather;

Hopefully to reach a peace

Consistent, constant, rather

Than the daily scurry of damned worry

That insists on taking lead, being your guide,

Giving the days a heaviness

That ought not be,

The outer world always a mess.

Worry dams and damns unquestionably,

Clearly and Inevitably!

Find your tastes, your gifts, your wastes.

Stick to your guns

Yet giving in that extra ounce

That makes you flexible,

Yes, humble.

Strangely, paradoxically,

Although you are one of a kind,

You are a part of mankind –

All the same except for name

And form and place:

Yes, yes, part of the human race.

You are alone,

But can’t accomplish this alone.

(another puzzling contradiction).

Solitary in the bath, on toilet,

In components of your colon –

Yet, you cannot get

To truth and Truth (big T)

Without help from society.

Anyway, before this poem

Becomes a tome,

This poet leave you with a line:

Finding truth’s the whole shebang!

Finding Out The Truth 11.19.2018 Circling Round Reality; Nature in & Of Reality; Arlene Nover Corwin

Arlene Corwin Poetry

I Get These Offers

You Can’t Beat A Book

Whatever You Concentrate On…

To Those Who Feel Alone

That Instead Of Why

My Unconventional Life

My Unconventional Life

A Prophet Almost Never Profits (In His Own Home Town)

I Like To Wash The Dishes

Finding Out The Truth

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