27 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in 2017, birth death & in between II Tags: birth death & in between
Sitting In My Own Light
(one more funeral)
Sitting in my own light,
Senses alert.
Eyes see, ears hear –
Most of all, the brain is clear,
Emotions still.
Still one more funeral –
Or three or four,
Waiting for those bells to toll.
Sitting In My Own Light 7.27.2017
Birth, Death & In Between II;
Arlene Corwin
01 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in 2016, birth death & in between II Tags: birth death & in between
When I’m gone
I’d like whomever,
To sit ‘round a table,
Read a poem or two or eight,
Tell a joke, a story,
Concentrate
On me with love the modus operandi.
Meanwhile I endeavor
To make this life a label,
Every movement something –
Health, a lesson, teaching.
Life is peachy if I let it,
Up and out and reaching.
When I’m Gone 7.1.2016
Birth, Death & In Between II; Pure Nakedness;
Arlene Corwin
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in 2012, birth death & in between II Tags: age, birth death & in between, time, vanity
Leaving Mirrors
Seeping away,
Leaking through the pores
Of caring.
Leading to an ignorance
Of mirrors, fears,
Opinions, tears;
Spots that toll the bells
Of funerals.
Leaving Mirrors 3.16.2012
Birth, Death & In Between II;
Arlene Corwin
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in 2008, birth death & in between Tags: 2008, birth death & in between
If You Knew (a)
If you knew the time your death was due
What choices would you make?
Delay the day?
Test DNA?
New testament?
If the best test known to man suggested
This or that,
And that meant finish
Would you want to know
That on
The thirty first
Your destiny
Was the last breath?
Just
A question
Had to ask.
© If You Knew 2.20.2008
Birth, Death & In Between;
Arlene Corwin
01 Mar 2009 Leave a comment
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Getting Used To Death
Long, drawn out or quick and sudden?
Which would I prefer?
Long, drawn out gets friends and family used to it-
The chronic it. Grateful when you’ve gone –
Glad that the suffering is over
(For the other and themselves);
Daily visits, altered schedules,
Shifts from love’s devotedness
To medical frustrations, system weaknesses
That make one mad;
All over with and terminated.
Long gives time for settlement: insurance, testament;
Allows for karmic caring, showing
Love long put to bed.
Long gives sacrifice a shine.
Long is a great revealer. And
The chosen one can choose the kind
Of funeral and casket. And,
(If one has nerve to ask) command
Donation or cremation or the ordinary earth.
A long, drawn out passing-on has hope,
The chance to think forgiveness.
Quick’s shock is numbs.
Quick is another sorrow.
No tomorrow for a chat, that being that,
Things left undone, unsaid –resolved,
Quelled and dispelled ambition.
Quick spurns longtime-suffering,
Morphine dependence, side effects.
Quick has its points to favor it:
Embarrassment and diapered shit
A non-existent shame.
Quick is the name of she or he
Who laughed while waving, crossed a street,
Or said goodnight and never woke;
Whose brain still spoke,
Who had no time to fear.
Which one would I prefer,
(If I could choose at all?)
© Getting Used To Death 1.6.2008
Birth, Death & In Between;
Arlene Corwin
01 Mar 2009 Leave a comment
in 2008, birth death & in between, circling round nature, circling round time, circling round wrinkles Tags: 2008, birth death & in between, circling round time, nature, wrinkles
Fooling Father Time
Is Father Time a father?
Really, truly a creator?
A protector?
If it’s true, why do we trick
And flatten out new wrinkles – use the
Twinkly toes on rows of cream and salves?
If he were father, everybody’s kindly father,
Why would life be linear?
Smooth, chubby bodies
Turning skinnier,
And men and women readier
And ready for…their graves?
But we’re ‘worth it’,
Buying l’oreals and restylanes
And product lines to shave the lines
That so-called Father you’re-so-vain Time
Lays on us for what?
The point? There seems no point
In fooling ‘round with, or just fooling time –
And you don’t have to call him father.
© Fooling Father Time 9.21.2008
Birth, Death & In Between; Circling Round Nature; Circling Round Wrinkles; Time;
Arlene Corwin
26 Feb 2009 Leave a comment
in 2008, birth death & in between, circling round nature, circling round vanities, circling round woman, circling round wrinkles, I Is Always You is We Tags: 2008, age, aging, birth death & in between, everyman, losing vanity, nature's way, woman
I Do Not Recognize
I do not recognize
The face that passes by
The me-rror.
Find it hard to give it credence,
Credibility.
Incredible!
That me-rror shows
An ever-changing wrinkling skin
Reflecting someone
Else within.
The yogic,
Mystic
Fathers
Must be/are correct,
And I suspect
That I
Am not my body,
And my body
Is not where I’m found – my ground.
I’ll have to grind the mirror’s glass
To powder
So I need no longer pass it ever
And complain.
Arlene Corwin
© I Do Not Recognize 1.30.2008
Birth, Death & In Between; Circling Round Nature;
Circling Round Woman; I is Always You Is We;Circling Round Vanities;
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in 2008, birth death & in between, circling round nature, circling round reality, circling round time, circling round vanities, circling round woman, circling round wrinkles, I Is Always You is We Tags: aging, beauty, birth death & in between, circling round time, nature, vanity, woman, youth
Gone
It isn’t that I was beautiful,
But youth has beauty
Grounded in the supple;
Muscle tone, proportions
Lip to nose,
Waist/hips,
Shortened, lengthened, thickened –
Gone.
The elasticity, the cheekbone
With its hostile lines
That droop the jaw down
Through the neck.
Not the loss
But changes [to the]
Peers, me, us –
My generation aging,
Dying, disappearing.
Knowledge which, though solace
Craves an answer ring
That hasn’t come.
© Gone 10.23.2008
Birth, Death & In Between; Circling Round Nature; Circling Round Vanities;
Circling Round Woman; Circling Round Wrinkles; I Is Always You Is We; Time;
Arlene Corwin
16 Feb 2009 Leave a comment
in 2009, birth death & in between, circling round reality, definitely didactic, I Is Always You is We, revelations big & small, to the child mystic Tags: 2009, birth death & in between, circling round reality, definitely didactic, I Is Always You is We, revelations big & small, to the child mystic
If A Bad Man Believes
If a bad man believes in God
He has the peace
That every good man has.
God doesn’t care – good/bad, bad/good
Bestowing
Just rewards –
Desserts that have their ground in faith.
It’s faith that counts.
What happens after,
I have no idea – but have
Ideas;
No clue,
But there are clues
To chains
That point to balance;
Clues to chains
That point
To resolution,
Clues that point to fixed results –
Chains
That do not end with death
But point to immortality,
Responsibility
For choices made
Not dying death.
Birth, death and an in between,
The constant chain.
© If A Bad man Believes 1.17.2009
Birth, Death & In Between; Circling Round Reality; Definitely Didactic;
I Is Always You Is We; Revelations Big & Small; To The Child Mystic;
16 Feb 2009 Leave a comment
in 2009, a sense of the ridiculous, birth death & in between, circling round reality, circling round time, circling round vanities Tags: 2009, a sense of the ridiculous, birth death & in between, circling round reality, circling round time, circling round vanities
Day After #2
One day
After New Year’s Eve;
Nine years
Post millennium:
Continuation ordinaire,
Nothing changed but numbers.
What makes dates so great?
Why the fireworks
To signalize
A time that’s anyway here/gone?
I am a yin/yang person
Thinking all the time –
What’s there to celebrate
When it’s a fiction?
© Day After 1.2.2009
A Sense Of The Ridiculous; Circling Round Reality;
Circling Round Vanities; Birth, Death & In Between; Time;
Arlene Corwin
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