OUT THIS WEEK!
Circling Round Yoga, Science, War & Cats By Arlene Corwin 4 poetry collections in one.
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Ms Corwin:”In Circling Round Yoga, I’ve circled around varieties of yoga by including such subjects as recipes, thoughts about cooking, meditative reflections and recommendations, direct, unsystematic, and definitely incomplete; recommendations for getting rid of loneliness: ideas that circle around the diverse paths of yoga.
In Circling Round Science it was hard to draw a line between the intuitive, the spiritual, the philosophic and the scientific…
War Book is self-explantory. It’s anti-.
And finally Cat Book, a collections of lovingly unsentimental observations of the only cats I’ve known: Sootis and Albert, who were and are more than a mice eliminating part of my life”
Out This Week: Circling Round Yoga, Science, War & Cats
22 Jan 2014 Leave a comment
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A Cat Is A Most Polite Animal 1995
19 Jan 2014 Leave a comment
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A Cat Is A Most Polite Animal
There he lies at the foot of my bed.
Here I sit as I write at its head:
Papers strewn, bits here, scraps there.
He never crinkles, wrinkles, tears,
Only getting, every now and then
An urge to lunge… at
Flies in summer, whizzing gnats.
He never crushes objects near, it being clear
Cats are polite and delicate –
Tasteful and the perfect gymnast:
Olga Corbut of the bed.
I ought to tap my deeper thoughts –
The ones with bolts – the ones with nuts.
It’s reddening that one can only
Talk of cats.
He’s just a cat!
But I am filled with admiration.
Not just wonder: admiration!
I admire you, oh cat – respect you!
And this feeling makes me fuller, nicer –
All in all, enhancing slices [of a life],
By thimblefuls.
What do you think of that, oh cat?
You don’t care.
That’s what’s so nice.
My life’s enhanced. You dream of mice.
A Cat Is A Most Polite Animal .9.14 .1995
Circling Round Nature; Cat Book;
Arlene Corwin
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Night Scout 2013
24 May 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, cat book Tags: the nature of cats
Night Scout
Night scout
On the lookout,
Furtive, feigning,
Reconnoitering.
Albert C. Spy
Of the loftiest order,
Gazing out over
And onto his world:
Bushes, trees,
Birdhouse, lawn,
Hedges, ledges, the stones:
His domain.
Taking stock,
Sizing up in the night,
Silent scout,
Out.
Night Scout 5.24.2013
Cat Book;
Arlene Corwin
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Wandering Around In My Mind 2013
23 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, cat book, circling round nature, the processes II Tags: cats, comfort, existence, nomads
Wandering Around My Mind
Sitting comfortably:
32 inch white TV;
Documentary;
Himalayas:
Freezing folk, surviving, thriving;
Minus thirty centigrade.
Nomads sixty looking ninety,
Tending goat kids tenderly,
While watching out for
Predators: cats big as tigers.
Albert Cat is lying licking,
Right leg sticking
Over sofa like a king,
No bird of prey to worry him,
No giant scary cat to fear;
Not understanding what he’s got,
Not cognizant about his lot deluxe
And what it means;
Contrast between cats and screens,
Life’s brevity,
The prematurely
Agéd
Nomad.
Here, a revelationary
Sadness: cryptic, specious maybe,
Forcing pen to paper.
Wandering Around My Mind 2.17.2013/4.23.2013
Cat Book; Circling Round Nature; the Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II;
Arlene Corwin
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Albert The Forgiving 2013
31 Mar 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, cat book Tags: cats, forgiveness, the nature of cats, the nature of forgiveness
Albert The Forgiving
He wants to bite.
I wag my finger.
Whining just a bit,
He sits. I win
This time.
He shambles out, a little
Disappointed cat.
I know exactly ‘where he’s at’,
His psyche visible.
Then, as usual
He’s back
Albert the gentle.
I think that’s incredible!
Albert The Forgiving 3.31.2013
Cat Book;
Arlene Corwin
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Spring Energy
24 Mar 2013 Leave a comment
in 2013, cat book, circling round nature Tags: oh cats oh spring
Spring Energy
A homely scene;
Coffee in the morning room.
Albert Cat comes in.
Crouching, Albert’s stretched and scratched
A patient couch (that withstands all),
And now, the ultimate & quintessential game of
BALL!
To throw, be chased, never be fetched.
(He’ll chase & catch, but never fetch.
The thrower (I!) become the fetcher). Ridiculous!
Then to the door,
A game no more,
He’s out, (thank goodness).
Spring Energy 3.24.2013
Circling Round Nature; Cat Book;
Arlene Corwin
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2012 in review Arlene Corwin Poetry have-a-look
30 Dec 2012 Leave a comment
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Country Life
09 Sep 2012 Leave a comment
in 2004, 2012, birth death & in between, cat book, circling round nature, swedish book Tags: birth death & inbetween, country life, night adventures, not what you think, the so-called calm life, vulnerability
Country Life
You wouldn’t think much happens here,
But I’m reminded as I write
That drama of the magnitude
Of Shakespeare’s tragedies unite,
Not open to the public.
Frogs are flattened,
Deer are drowned,
Dogs go lost,
Trees are downed –
Magnificent, gigantic things,
Significant beyond their rings.
Fledglings never get to fly,
Snakes are dropped from out the sky.
Desperate bees glassed-in in pain,
Looking, never finding ‘out’ –
You’d never guess
That in the neat and cared-for grass
The cat that sleeps here as I write
Becomes the reaper of the night –
A Jack the Ripper, skilled and heartless
Stalking, lurking, lurching –
Never dream that cosmic struggles
Make their place right here
Where battlegrounds and contests jeer
At life’s apparent concord.
Country life –
The quiet life
Where nothing seems to happen;
Let me tell you…
Country Life 9.7.2004
Circling Round Nature; Birth, Death & In Between; Cat Book;
Arlene Corwin
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The Most Natural One Of Us (In The House) 2012
28 May 2012 Leave a comment
in 2012, cat book Tags: all about cats, cats, nature
The Most Natural One of Us (In The House)
The most natural one of us
In the house
Is Albert Cat.
When lengthened days of May
Manipulate his melatonic ways
And night sings
“Come to me my melatonic baby”,
He succumbs,
Coming through his door
At four,
(that’s right, that’s 4a.m. at night)
For Cat’s Delite,
At which a.m.
He joins Ms Corwin in
The bed.
No
Get-up-go-
to-work ethos,
No
Three-meals-cut-out-mouse-
snacks club,
No member of the ‘idle hands
Make-devil’s-work society,
He follows days circadiant,
His nature conflict-free. At ease.
He spends no years in therapy
Spending his money or monies.
Nah, the most nah-tural of us
In this or any house
Is he.
The Most Natural One of Us 5.21.2012
Cat Book;
Arlene Corwin
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Do You Know You’re Three Today? 2012
06 May 2012 Leave a comment
in 2012, birthday book, cat book Tags: Albert Cat, birthdays, cat's birthday
Do You Know That You’re Three Today?
Do you know that you’re three today?
Three and free, you have inhabited
Planet Earth just twelve times three.
Not much really.
Eyes that look at us are yellow or
They’re black, depending
On your mood. You’ve grown.
You know a lot,
Developed fears, developed confidence
And habits, signals,
Even sound that sounds like words
Which we’ve begun to grasp.
You’re changing everyday.
And still we worry-
Are we doing what we ought to do?
What’s right for you?
You’re handsome, graceful, smart.
You give so much without a forethought
Or an effort.
Just to watch you makes us cry.
Happy Birthday Albert –
Even though
You’ve no
idea it is.
Do You Know You’re Three Today? 5.6.2012
Cat Book: Birthday Book;
Arlene Corwin
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