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in 2008, the processes creative thinking meditative Tags: 2008, emptiness a mystery a catalyst, laziness slackness
Periods Of Slackness
Periods of slackness
TV,
Books,
The radio,
Culture high and culture low:
Sleepwalked
Through the walls of faked
Belief.
Discontent: it’s there
With restless nudging.
Zombie-ism. Sludge.
Aware [are we]
That nothing loves a vacuum;
If we shut the simulated stimulation
Something swoops in
On a podium of mystery.
© Periods Of Slackness 3.10.2008
The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative;
Arlene Corwin
08 Apr 2009 Leave a comment
in 2008, birth death & in between, circling round reality, definitely didactic Tags: 2008, suffering
Perhaps It’s Good To Suffer
It’s good to see through the illusion:
Fun.
Perhaps it’s good to suffer –
The inexorable welcome.
Good to suffer;
More than if you’d had it all,
And loathe to leave the genial,
Ached more
Than those who’d suffered
Life throughout.
Preparation
For the separation
That detains, restrains us all:
Training.
It may be a good –
And easier
To suffer.
© Perhaps It’s Good To Suffer 12.12.2008
Circling Round Reality; Definitely Didactic; Birth, Death & In Between;
Arlene Corwin
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in 2008, circling round woman, I Is Always You is We, pure nakedness Tags: 2008, human, we're all, woman
Perfect Portrait
Much to give;
Busy clearing channels
To flow out through shyness.
It is nature – hers –
To learn
That what flows out as life force
Has its source
Outside herself.
She needs assistance,
Yet she carries on,
Her nature making efforts,
Honing skills,
Collecting tools
To nourish self and them.
How accurate the portrait
At
This perfectly judged junction,
This convergence of events
In time.
© Perfect Portrait 5.13.2008
Circling Round Woman; I is Always You Is We;
Pure Nakedness;
Arlene Corwin
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in 2008, definitely didactic, our times our culture Tags: 2008, borrowing, illusions
Passing Thoughts On Those Who Borrow
Are you capable of thinking through
The chinks?
You borrow though you know
There will be problems paying back –
[The crowing cock of downfall.]
Want: I want creating want
As in: need dire; destitution,
Shortage; wish turned into suffering
For needs imagined.
Wanton lacks:
Unknowledge in the highest.
Thinking through from link to link
Instead of lunging, lurching,
Lured by promises of pleasured gains
That lurk inside a luscious glow, a lurid glow.
The lustrous is a cost – and loss
The ultimate.
© Passing Thoughts On Those Who Borrow 7.25.2008
Definitely Didactic; Our Times, Our Culture;
Arlene Corwin
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in 2008, 2009, I Is Always You is We Tags: 2008, 2009, I Is Always You is We, universality, writing a novel
I Thought That I Could Never Write A Novel
I thought that I could never write
A novel.
I suspect that what I scribble
Is
a novel. Novel, no, but universal –Variations on the themes
I sometimes understand as dull,
Experience as new.
An I that’s also you.
Subjective when the partial reigns,
Objective from a God’s-eye view.
A novel to be read as true;
An I that’s also always you.
© I Thought That I Could Never Write A Novel 2.14.2008
I is Always You Is We;
Arlene Corwin
28 Mar 2009 Leave a comment
in a sense of the ridiculous Tags: 2008, creativity
Only If
Only if
Someone is daft
Enough
To interest him/herself,
Will this stuff ever
Be ingested voluntarily,
Digested – maybe.
Reading it today, I think,
“This stinks…
What is she saying?”
I, the author, have to
Think it through.
It’s there, all right –
A bright idea
Obscure,
Disguised
Or cryptic;
Not a picnic.
But still deep enough
To steep yourself in.
Neither boast nor bragiose
Just an attempt to give the most
That one can give at any given
Moment.
© Only If 4.24.2008
A Sense Of The Ridiculous; The Processes:Creative,Thinking, Meditative;
Arlene Corwin
28 Mar 2009 Leave a comment
in 2008, circling round eros, I Is Always You is We, love relationships, love relationships; circling round eros Tags: 2008, a smoochy love song
One Evening In June
One moon, croon, tune
Even-ing
In June
Is we that never was.
We,
A festival of feelings,
Celebration of the pagan.
Venus high,
Comfortable with one another,
On our backs,
The insecurities relaxed,
Relieved in rest,
Our recreation our vacation.
One June moon sphinx
Benign,
An atmospheric secret box
Holding our futures.
© One Evening In June 6.28.2008
Circling Round Eros; I Is Always You Is We; Love Relationships;
Arlene Corwin
28 Mar 2009 Leave a comment
in 2008, definitely didactic, I Is Always You is We Tags: 2008, aspirations, being satisfied with who you are
One Of The Almost Famous
One of the almost famous
Millions
Who accomplish [relatively] much,
Touch heaven
In the earthliest of ways
(an ultimate non-real salvation);
One of the
Almost;
Works viewed
By a fraction few [of mankind’s folk;]
Who never reach the immortality
Of earthly offers,
Leaving ends to destiny
And judgement day;
Probably me
Or you –
Or friends who go
In circles that you run, are known
In;
Never satisfied,
Aspiring,
Destined anyway
To be
One of the almost
Famous.
© One Of The Almost Famous 3.1.2008
I is Always You Is We; Definitely Didactic;
Arlene Corwin
28 Mar 2009 Leave a comment
in 2008, a sense of the ridiculous, birth death & in between Tags: 2008, death of the young
One More Time
Saddened one more time.
Sad, as if I knew him.
It’s the earli-ness,
The premature-ness,
Pointlessness of fate;
Date with Death.
Acclaimed, accomplished,
Consummate, exalted, in his prime.
One more time
The talented, accomplished
Dying young
In witless ways,
Shortsighted stunts,
Mindless moments’ dumb decisions –
And the world has lost
Yet one more source
Of inspiration.
Then I think:
Each karmic trick
Happening to all
And who
Am I to
Challenge it?*
*Esbjorn Svensson brilliant jazz pianist who died in a scuba diving accident age 42 or so.
© One More Time 6.16.2008
A Sense Of The Ridiculous; Birth, Death & In Between; Special People, Special Occasions;
Arlene Corwin
28 Mar 2009 Leave a comment
in 2008, definitely didactic, I Is Always You is We, life, the processes creative thinking meditative, to the child mystic Tags: 2008, life is a question
One Big Question
What I write is
One big question;
Every statement,
Each assertion –
Just a question.
What I know I say,
But saying, – is a question,
A gestation of the soul
Doled out
In graduated wakenings
Through many lives
Of asking.
©One Big Question 2.10.2008
Definitely Didactic; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative;
To The Child Mystic; I is Always You Is We;
Arlene Corwin
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