Don’t Trust That Memory 2012
19 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in 2012, definitely didactic Tags: memory, memory is inaccurate, misinterpreting the past
Don’t Trust That Memory
Do not trust that memory.
It adds or steals; misrepresents;
Takes reels of film
That never happened
And coagulates them. Stuck in time
You’re either older or you’re younger
Or it never happened.
Did you make love in the hall
When you were fourteen?
Fall into that well
When you were two,
Hanging by small fingers
‘Til a neighbor pulled you up?
Endless scenes
You do not screen or question.
After all, they’re pictures burned
Onto a brain you trust,
The story growing mollusk crust.
If I were you, I wouldn’t live
On movie clips and photographic negatives
You’re positive about.
Does that smash your boat and crush your melon?
Push a disinfected you
Into
the moment!
Manipulated every day by reminiscence,
We scandalously play with memory.
Just don’t take it seriously.
Don’t Trust That Memory 5.19.2012
I Is Always You Is Me; Definitely Didactic;
Arlene Corwin
Listening To Andre Previn 1950 Something 2012
16 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in 2012, circling round reality, definitely didactic, vaguely about music II Tags: borrowing styles, looking for ourselves
Listening To Andre Previn 1950 Something
What are we doing more
Than looking for ourselves?
Borrowing our styles,
Noticing the indecisive
Movement when we write,
(an O that should go rightwards
which we suddenly write leftwards).
We oppose ourselves; impugn, negate;
We contra-go, we contra-play,
We question-learn
All in the quest for unity.
What is a question but a search?
Consistency we recognize as ‘me’
To live with and enjoy.
We keep on borrowing and using,
Sometimes jumping off
[The instrument, the job]
to head where we belong.
We’ve seen… We’ve had enough.
The clues? The warning?
Discontent;
A looking-in;
A know-not-why;
A ‘that’s not me!’
What are we doing more
Than looking for
Ourselves,
For there sits our
Serenity.
Listening To Andre Previn 1950 Something
Definitely Didactic; Circling Round Reality; Vaguely About Music II;
Arlene Corwin
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Not Goal But Mechanism: Gratitude
16 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in 2012, circling round reality, definitely didactic Tags: gratitude, meditations, reality
Not Goal But Mechanism
Gratitude:
Imagining in image,
Image in imaginings;
Not goal but mechanism;
Working tool to get you there,
Where thinking clearer betters life
And life for those around. Undervalued
As a talent, knack and aptitude,
When you get it, feel it, use it!
Not a goal but mechanism.
Not Goal But Mechanism 6.23.2011/3.5.2012
Circling Round Reality; Definitely Didactic;
Arlene Corwin
On Those Who Borrow 2011
02 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in 2011, definitely didactic, our times our culture
On Those Who Borrow
Can you think through the chinks,
Through the links of the chains
When you borrow but know about
somewhere inside?
Paying back, want making want,
Wish and needs
Derived from imaginings,
Wanton deficiencies,
Lured by the promise
That lurks in a luscious and lustrous glow,
To lurch, lunge and go
Toward a cost
And a loss,
Well, of course you can -
somewhere inside.
On Those Who Borrow 7.25.2008 revised 12.23.2011
Definitely Didactic; Our Times, Our Culture;
Arlene Corwin
A Work In Progress 2011
04 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in 2011, definitely didactic, pure nakedness, the processes II, vaguely about music
A Work In Progress
Art is that,
Poetry, piano jazz:
All works in progress.
Friends of mine know that.
I’ve never written, played a piece
I’ve not revised – at least
Each time I’ve sized it up,
Done it twice or thrice or
More, more, more….
An awkward phrase
Needs tempo, elongating, shortening,
Abbreviating – simply wrong.
I once thought, is any artwork finished… ever?’
I still think it never is.
Life perhaps?
Never finished… I would
Like to think it is.
Work-in-progress, always
Where one dares, inspired
By a change
In mind inspired by one better.
Breathing in, metabolizing
Something better
As the letter becomes yours.
Brasher in a quiet way: maybe later in the day,
Observant and articulate,
Alert to nuance new.
Always on the way…
To rainbow’s end, maybe no end,
Restrictions ever loosening,
Never ending progress
That keeps saying “No, not this,
You silly-billy.”
Not advancement but evolvement.
A Work-In-Progress 12.4.2011
The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; Definitely Didactic; Pure Nakedness; Vaguely About Music;
Arlene Corwin
Only To Be Found Within 2011
19 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment
in 2011, definitely didactic, the processes II
Only To Be Found Within
That’s where it is,
It’s nowhere else.
Simplicity itself:
Intelligence and intuition:
Vision
Seeing oneness everywhere,
In every form.
Beauty everywhere,
In forms others might
Deem ugly,
Wealth where others might see poverty.
Not having love, but being love.
Evolution that was first and real,
The journey inexhaustible.
℘
Found in and by
The mind perceptive;
Stage by stage,
Phase by phase:
Never all at once.
Only To Be Found Within 8.16.2011
The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative, II; Definitely Didactic;
Arlene Corwin
Thought You Get But Once 2011
19 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
in 2011, definitely didactic, the processes II
Thoughts You Get But Once
There are thoughts you only get but once:
The back side of the front side of creativeness.
Oh yes, the theme comes back -
Perhaps a thousand times-
But never as it was that moment.
Moment of panache,
Moment of genius;
Inspired, unique,
That special muse
Twin Siamese.
So get it down.
Drop what you’re doing:
Yoga pose, the floured board.
Just wash your hands
And do it.
Thoughts You Get But Once 7.17.2011
Definitely Didactic; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II;
Arlene Corwin
In The Nowness of Seconds 2011
11 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
in 2011, definitely didactic, nature of & in reality
Within The Nowness Of Seconds
Within the nowness of seconds
- If you live within them -
There is wisdom,
And in wisdom safety,
Sanctuary, guarantee:
Security.
In the newness of the nowness
Is the yes-ness of the nano-
In the smallest unit
No-ness which,
Does not exist.
Niceness
In entirety.
Ooh, it’s lovely to exist!
Within The Nowness of Seconds 7.8.2011
Definitely Didactic: Nature In & Of Reality;
Arlene Corwin
Within The Nowness Of Seconds 2011
08 Jul 2011 Leave a Comment
in 2011, definitely didactic, nature of & in reality
Within The Now-ness
Within The Nowness Of Seconds
Within the nowness of seconds
- If you live within them -
There is wisdom,
And in wisdom safety,
Sanctuary, guarantee:
Security.
In the newness of the nowness
Is the yes-ness of the nano-
In the smallest unit
No-ness which,
Does not exist.
Niceness
In entirety.
Ooh, it’s lovely to exist!
Within The Nowness of Seconds 7.8.2011
Definitely Didactic: Nature In & Of Reality;
Arlene Corwin
Blocks 2011
07 Jun 2011 Leave a Comment
Blocks
The blockages are fears,
The blocks for building.
We interpret, look for symbols
(all of which are true and valid)
Yet we’re leaving out
The fears; the archetype’s
Recurring prototype;
The real walls,
The real fences
Real lenses
to it all.
Blocks 6.7.2011
Definitely Didactic;
Arlene Corwin
