Yet Another Funeral 2012
16 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
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Yet One More Funeral
A neighbor friend of ninety-eight.
Sad but distanced.
Not as painful as expected.
Organist, priest, cronies, kin,
Then you and me.
The priest had met with son and daughter;
Didn’t preach, but read
The things they said.
No pretensions, abstract terms.
‘Reminisce, recall… but do not live
In halls of past…
Or future fantasies.’
An almost-century on earth…
Details I’d not known.
Then Christendom;
Hope and dust;
Shared, collective dest-
iny.
The lifeless neighbor in our midst
Became a life.
Psalms, organ, sermon;
Row by row we rose and honored…
Flowers, bowing, sometimes words.
A simple service to remind… re-mind.
Another Funeral 3.10.2012
Birth, Death & In Between II; Special People, Special Occasions;
Arlene Corwin
The Day The Princess Had A Baby 2012
02 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
in 2012, birthday book, special people special occasions, swedish book Tags: births, Princess Victoria, spring, Sweden, weather
The Day The Princess had A Baby*
New little princess;
Flags a-flying.
Sunshine, open windows,
Cats that went out and ate grass
And almost no snow left.
Seven degrees of centigrade.
It’s February. Should be colder.
Ice that’s turning back into
A lake again and Princess cakes
Sold out in all the bakeries.
So many fine and subtle things,
Thought I.
Besides which, Lena Valkonen
Became a grandma Saturday:
A baby boy. Oh boy! More joy.
And more to come.**
The Day The Princess Had A Baby 2.29.2012
Birthday Book; Special People, Special Occasions; Swedish Book;
Arlene Corwin
*Sweden’s Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel
**Inspired by an email received from my neighbor across the lake, Ingegerd Lorquist.
The subject of the letter was “wasn’t it a lovely day”. It was poetry in itself. I just made a few changes.
06 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
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♥LOVING COUPLETS♥
2012
♥
GOOD NOT TO BECOME A STAR
OR BE TOO POPULAR.
WHEN REACHING SEVENTY AND FOUR,
NO ONE, INCLUDING YOU,
THINKS BACK TO TWENTY-TWO,
YOUR PRIME,
GIRLS CHASING ALL THE TIME
WHILE BREAKING DOWN YOUR DOOR
TO GET A GLIMPSE OF YOU
ONCE MORE.
LUCKY FOR THE PLANET EARTH
TO HAVE TATTOOED
UPON ITS FACE
A KENT:
THE BEST OF VIKING’S RACE.
♥
TO ALWAYS HAVE BEEN
LOVELY, QUIET, CLEVER KENT,
EVER PATIENT AND CONTENT,
CREATING THINGS FROM STICKS AND STONES,
NOT AFRAID TO BE ALONE,
HAPPY ON YOUR OWN,
CELEBRATING AN EVENT
OF TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND
AND TEN DAYS OF LIVING
IS THANKSGIVING OVERDUE.
HAPPY DAY OF BIRTH TO YOU!
♡♥♡♥♡♥♡
Loving Couplets 2.8.2012
Love Relationships; Birthday Book;
Special People, Special Occasions;
Arlene Corwin
A Friend 2011/12
15 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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A Friend
Died yesterday.
Peacefully.
Away from
Dopamine-less,
Speechless shaking.
Waking
To the feel of light,
Serenity,
And energy.
Unoriginal, banal:
This thing of death;
Too soon.
We mourn
An Eie gone but clothed
In strength again.
Eie rhymes with play-a.
A Friend 12.22.2011/12
Birth, Death & In Between II; Special People, Special Occasions;
Arlene Corwin
Eva Sixty-Five 2011
03 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
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Eva Sixty-Five
This is a poem to flatter,
But to flatter with sincerity:
An oxymoron maybe;
For flattery is insincere
And this is praise to celebrate,
Perhaps exaggerate a tiny bit,
Because it’s fun and hard to find
The words that suit.
When your great grandmother was alive,
A woman who reached sixty-five
Was old, no longer in the game.
The frame that forms attractive you,
Seductive you,
Is strong and pretty,
Smart and witty,
Friendly, generous and kind.
Those around you find
They want things for you.
Younger looking, energetic,
Strong and pretty, sympathetic,
Friendly, generous and loyal
Eva un-renewable.
Everybody loves her.
She should know this
Cause she’s worth it!
Eva Sixty-Five 12.3.2011
Birthday Book; Special People, Special Occasions;
Arlene Corwin;
I’ve Studied You 2011
27 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
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I’ve Studied You
I’ve studied you,
Continue to…
Self-insistent, hyperbolic,
Never just, “I laughed”,
But …”laughed until I peed myself”.
(There really is just laughter,
all the rest hysteria):
Your conversation, what they said
And what they did,
With ‘I’ the center.
Knowing answers, you correct
Yet,
You are moody, melancholy,
Lachrymose, you cry a lot.
Lively conversation – no.
If interrupted, you blow up.
It’s a lively monologue,
Voluble and volatile.
The way to be around you
Is to smile,
Agree,
Give sympathy,
Make coffee, tea
And learn how much of that
Is me.
I’ve Studied You 11.21.2011
Special People, Special Occasions; I Is Always You Is We;
Arlene Corwin
Tranström Has Won
08 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
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Tranström Has Won
I’m giving up the;
Giving up and.
Tranström has won.
His short phrase is in;
Phrase capturing essence;
His metaphors king.
I’m keeping the I.
It’s mine. It is me.
We meet in the I
Of our poetry. *
*Just celebrating Nobel Week 2011 where Thomnas Tranström has won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Tranström Has Won 10.8.2011
Special People, Special Occasions; The Processes: Creative, Thinking Meditative II;
Arlene Corwin
Looking At Sean Connery, Eighty 2010
12 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
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Looking At Sean Connery, Eighty
Looking at Sean Connery
(In magazines my sister in-law gives me)
I think, “Looking good!”
Then I think, “Perhaps that’s ‘cause he
Has a beard.
How easy when you’ve got a beard -
A moustache too.”
When I reach eighty,
Can I be a Connery,
Looking good as Sean?
Moustache, beard are out
(Not that I couldn’t grow one.)
Now to find that inner clout
To keep my world a stage,
Fool age
While wrinkle weighs down
Cheek, jaw, chin.
Fall back on
Substance,
Obvious. yes?
Birthday Book; Circling Round Wrinkles; Circling Round Vanities; Circling Round Time; Special People, Special Occasions; Arlene Corwin
© Looking At Sean Connery Eighty 9.20.2010
So Much To Do, So Little Time To Do It In* 2010
10 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
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So Much To Do, So Little Time To Do It In*
A little man, glass bones disease.
A la Lautrec: two prodigies.
At thirty-six his lungs gave out.
We cried, we would not be consoled.
Prodigious talent
Playing jazz as only he could,
For his best fan – God.
© So Much To Do, So Little Time To Do It In. started 5.9.1999/now6.24.2010A Sense Of The Ridiculous; Special People, Special Occasions; Vaguely About Music; Arlene Corwin
For Michel Petrucciani
