Applying Ernest Wood 2010
11 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
in 2010, definitely didactic, the processes creative thinking meditative, Uncategorized
Applying Ernest Wood
The artist in his limitation
Uses will, thought and affection;
Has ideas that someone needs.
Uses will to form intention.
Voice, the song, the pen or paper:
Tools to use: the thought computer.
Done - the form released.
That special act of concentration eased,
He’s pleased.
© Applying Ernest Wood 9.28,2010* The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative; Definitely Didactic; Arlene Corwin
*Ernest Wood was an inspiring teacher, scholar and writer on Vedanta.
Midsummer Party #1 #2 2002 2004
09 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in 2002, 2004, birth death & in between, circling round nature, circling round time, nature of & in reality, Uncategorized
Mid-, the height, the longest, light,
A day which, catching hold
Of loss and cold,
Is time that never can recur -
Day never coming back;
A sun that stays up all the night
And on till dawn
With eating, drinking, friends, the pack
Carousing light-night long
To joke and celebrate the wait-for-what:
A curtain that for certain
Falls or opens summer’s tent.
Midsummer Party #2
June seventeenth:
Approaching mid; the height;
The longest, lightest day.
And I am hit,
Encompassed by a hint
Of loss,
The tint of cold,
Of one more year;
Of age foretold,
And days one never can get back:
Time that cannot return.
June seventeenth: the main concern:
Eating, drinking, friends, the pack
Of relatives; to celebrate
And stay up late.
And here I sit up with the solstice:
Life in death’s becoming.
Flirting and forgetting laws:
High; low; the effects of cause.
Midsummer party:
Curtain waiting for a fall;
We, not thinking that we’re running out of funny hats,
Unending years and festivals.
Linnea Is Dying 2010
08 Aug 2010 Leave a Comment
in 2010, birth death & in between, circling round time, mother book, Uncategorized
Linnea Is Dying Noon June 29,2007
Linnea is dying.
We will honor her
By penning on the hands of Time.
A morphined sleep,
The morphined comfort a reward
In tumored head,
God leading.
We will honor her with poetry –
The written word
A record
For Eternity.
Memories and memory to honor her,
This excellent mother;
Before name is on that stone,
A paper honor of her own.
We must honor even it,
The quiet sleep away from life.
Perhaps she goes to heaven’s secrets;
Maybe to return.
Higher than all sentiment,
Than tears;
Word’s love expression.
Dying -
Never dead.
Linnea Is Dying 07.6.07 Birth, Death & In Between; Circling Round Time; Mother Book; Arlene Corwin
Hurrying 2010
10 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
Hurrying
All these –urryings.
Hurry-, scurry-, worrying.
The day is May, the kitchen step half-comfortable,
The coffee in my palm a satisfaction and
A prefix to the day at hand.
The only righteous thing to do
Is sit
And finish it.
A funny speckled fly beside me
(red and yellow eyes are funny)
Water-filled step indentation his own cup
Looks up,
Drinks too.
The point is to
Slow down.
© Hurrying 5.27.2010 Nature Of & In Reality; Arlene Corwin
Ascetic Youth 2010
10 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
Ascetic Youth
When I was young and immature
I took a no as absolute.
It’s in my nature.
Not quite understanding that
A no implies alternatives,
I lacked perspective.
Who looked for alternatives,
A complement, a supplement?
I gave myself deficiencies of every sort – no doubt.
The diet that said don’t drink milk,
Did not say don’t get calcium.
Who knew?
The wrong side of obedience
Is ignorance.
So I’m thinking,
That’s how despots do their thing.
© Ascetic Youth 6.1.2010 I Is Always We Is You; Pure Nakedness; Arlene Corwin
Dear Mr. Obama 2010
10 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment
Dear Mr. Obama Dear Mister Obama, President of the United States (this for readers of two thousand-fifty) What is it that stopped you acting Seconds after BP dribbled, spilled and gushed Into the Gulf, Louisiana’s precious water, Shrimp, crab, fish and alligator, Restaurant and resident, Each unconnected element? Fear? False information? Wasn’t there Some angel on your shoulder To propel you into action? You have pectorals and biceps all in uniform At your disposal. Don’t say money? That would be too, too banal. I voted for you. I’m your friend. This, no poison pen, I wanted you – but now? What’s stopped, what’s stopping you? For goodness’ sake, The planet waits.
©Dear Mr Obama, 5.30.2010 Our Times, Our Culture; Arlene Corwin
Another Realization 2010
25 May 2010 Leave a Comment
in 2010, revelations big & small, to the child mystic, Uncategorized
Another Realization You are the stillness that gives energy. Oxymoron, yes? That’s my hypothesis. If there is cause of cause of cause - effects, of course - You are the first. That’s my hypothesis. If cause always produces chains, Produces always chains, Produces chains all ways This energy May always be, Never losing mileage the entire way. Pattern, law, Matter, form, According to the laws of cause. This is the place my logic falls, In a place where logic fails. Now me, My form and energy. An elongation of these two. I know my form is molecule And maybe something tinier With energy the core; Core energy to form to power: I’m energy. I start and end with You, somehow. This is a sudden insight That will never convince anyone But me myself.
© Another Realization 5.22.2010 Revelations Big & Small; To The Child Mystic; Arlene Corwin
People Smoke A Joint Because 2010
25 May 2010 Leave a Comment
in 2010, circling round energy, revelations big & small, Uncategorized
People Smoke A Joint Because/one of my practice poems People smoke a joint because It calms them down, It makes them laugh. The symmetry of mediocrity’s Conventions flee. It also makes them hungry. Answers come, and often laughter Is the payoff. Groups ingested LSD To see more beauty, Dig into the new Change patterns that were old in mind, Find truths that were not there to find, Break down, build up And sip the cup Of everything there is to sip. People drink because they are More able to shift gears, Take risks, Lose fears. The problem is to lay off. Get it? Payoff. layoff? I liked that.
People Smoke A Joint Because 5.25.2010 Circling Round Energy; Revelations Big & Small; Arlene Corwin
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You Out There 2010
25 May 2010 Leave a Comment
in 2010, God book, Uncategorized
You Out There You out there, me in here, Equals, souls. You, who never make an error, I, who make them everyday, Coupled by the speed of thought, You sought, me not. Or am I wrong? Both souls, you there And me in here. Me here And you out there.
©You Out There 5.4.2010 God Book; To the Child Mystic; Arlene Corwin
