Circling Round Yoga, Science, War & Cats

By Arlene Corwin

Circling Round Yoga, Science, War & Cats is a book of four poetry collections, each intended to express the universal; a unity in variety.

Ms. Corwin: In Circling Round Yoga, Ive circled around varieties of yoga by including such subjects as recipes, thoughts about cooking, meditative reflections and recommendations, direct, unsystematic and definitely incomplete; recommendations for getting rid of loneliness: ideas that circle around the diverse paths of yoga.
In Circling Round Science it was hard to draw a line between the intuitive, the spiritual, the philosophic and the scientific. Sometimes I feel like a combination charlatan-cum-dilettante with nothing to use but limited knowledge and intuition.
I loved words like ionized, fractal, little green men from Mars, unified theory, red shift, continuumthey were oases of inspiration; an overlap of poetic speculations and quasi-science.
War Book is self-explanatory. Its anti-. It may moan a bit. A killing phenomenon unjustifiable, despicable, one is impelled to say something.
And finally Cat Book, a collection based on lovingly unsentimental observations of the only cats Ive known: Sootis and Albert, who were and are more than a mice eliminating part of my life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 26, 2013
• ISBN: 9781493152841

Arlene Corwin

Arlene Corwin is a professional jazz singer/pianist, yoga practitioner of some 40 years, and author of 11 previous books, each circling round some singular aspect of life. A graduate of the High School of Music & Art and Hofstra University, she lives, performs and teaches in Sweden.

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Rev. date: 12/20/2013

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Contents

Pre-thoughts & After-thoughts

CIRCLING ROUND YOGA

A Private Shout Of Love

All At The Same Time

All Kinds Of Nasty Thoughts

All The Way From Sweden

Bed Yoga

Circulating Blood

Everything Experiment

Five Minutes Of This, Ten Minutes Of That

Good Yoga

Gym Teacher: A Dedication

Home University

I Had Two Students

I Have More Students II

I Have A Koan

It’s My Eccentric Life

Just For Friends

Late In Life

Methods

Not The Answer

Pedal Tone

Reflection While Lying On The Floor Doing Yoga

Repeat

Shaping My Day

The Broader The Frame

The Complete Yogin

The Minute That I Meant To Use

The Process of Exclusion or Exclusion As The Path

The Theoretical Yogi

The World In A Breath

Thinking During A Shoulderstand

Thinking On Your Feet Is

This Is Meditation

Unsystematic Ways To Counteract The Negative Effects Of Aloneness

Wait It Out

What We Think & What We Do

When You’re Not At Home

Working Out In V’s

Ya Gotta Decide

Yoga Class-In-One

A’s Food Diary #1

A’s Food Diary #2

A’s Food Diary #3

CIRCLING ROUND SCIENCE

A Mystery

Breaking It Down Into Fractions

Constant Motion

Dancing In The Continuity Of Time

Even The Emptiest of Empty

Everything A Point In Space

Everything Connected And Interrelated

Everything Is A Clock

Faith Is A Chemical Dynamic

Fractal Me

I, In Present Moment

Illusion’s Reality

Inexhaustible Combinations

Mister Red Shift

Pursuing The Big Picture: (A poem about chaos)

Pursuing the Big Picture: #2 (A poem about chaos)

The Cosmic Code: What Can Crack It?

The Evolution Of Structure

The Particles Of God

The Place Where Time Isn’t

The Universe Is Falling Apart.

Time Goes

Time Is A Flowing Sameness

To The Doctor Who Examines Me

Watching Hubble

What The Mystic Saw

With Nothing To Say (more non-sequiters)

WAR BOOK

Death & Destruction

Global Situation

Injuries & Disappearance

My Watch Stopped

Nobody Wins In A War

Sticky Blood

The War

The War Is Over?

This Is War

This Is A Terrible Day

Twelve Days Into The War (Or Is It Thirteen?)

War Book #1

War Book #2

War Book #3

Weapons

CAT BOOK

A Cat Is A Most Polite Animal

Albert The Forgiving

Amazing Albert

Animal Friend

Djur Vän

Any Life Is Better Than No Life At All

Cat Desertion Is Cat Fidelity

Cat Scan

End Of Cat Book

For My Well Being

I Look At You With Mixed Eyes

Life Reverts

Living Laboratory

More Biorhythms

My Cat Doesn’t Know It’s Saturday

My Cat Is Not A Dog

My Killing Machine

Night Scout

Silent Partner

Sister In-Law II

Svägerskan II

Spring Energy

The Cat Has No Ego

The Laws I Can’t Mount

There’s A Katt In The Torp

To My Cat Who’s Not Too Sociable

Waiting For Someone To Open The Door

Wandering Around My Mind

Watching Albert

What I Don’t See

When You Get A Kitten

Who Peed On The Wheel Last Night?

Afterwards’ afterwords

Pre-thoughts & After-thoughts

Yoga is, as I define it, anything you do consistently with focus. Your whole life can be a focus. Or your so-called hobby can be one. Yoga is a path to inner peace, wisdom collected from observation, a general feeling of optimism and that things are going right.

In circling ’round yoga, I’ve circled around it by including such subjects as recipes, thoughts about cooking, meditative reflections and recommendations, direct, unsystematic and definitely incomplete recommendations for getting rid of loneliness: ideas that circle around and don’t attack; ideas that seemed to demand writing on the day.

This Is Meditation sounds a bit over-confident, perhaps even supercilious as I read it years after writing. It sounded comprehensive at the time. There is, undoubtedly, more to add that you know and I don’t. If you have ideas, add them.

The ‘circling round’ bit means just that… circling round a subject instead of meeting it head on, sometimes only hinting at, touching lightly (as in A Private Shout of Love). Nonetheless, the subject is still there, intertwined perhaps, but important in itself.

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Circling Round Yoga

A Private Shout Of Love

A private poem;

A private vanity;

A private shout

Of love.

He looks at her breasts

As she does yoga.

Beautiful, says he.

She looks at his penis

As he climbs out of the bathtub.

"That is the most magnificent, the manliest,

The finest in the land",

And they

Enjoy a private vanity,

A private act,

A privately perceived,

As one might say, ‘fact’

Seen from the beholder’s eye

Of love.

A Private Shout Of Love 7.25.2006

Love Relationships; Pure Nakedness; Circling Round Yoga;

Arlene Corwin

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All At The Same Time

I like to start the day with coffee:

Half black power, half au lait,

Turn on the Beeb, begin a poem.

Taking down a favorite tome-

A little read—I clean the bedroom,

Roam downstairs and get involved.

The menu solved, I wipe the floor

Then jump-rump to piano where

I sit, playing a tune or four.

Go back and start a bread. Then yoga

In a toga or a sweat suit,