Circling Round Time

By Arlene Corwin

This isnt just a collection about time. These are thoughts about wrinkles, birthdays, tick-tocking minutes, death, illusion and illusions.

This circles around time and Time. The all-embracing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 14, 2010
• ISBN: 9781453563113

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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Contents

Preface

A Flowing Sameness

A Tad Unjust

Aging Hormones

Ageing Orgasm

All Categories In One

Always The Same

An Old Film

Another Childhood Friend

Approaching Seventy-Five

As The Time Passes

Automatic Robot Time

Become A Stage (And Let Age Rage)

Birthday Boy

Birthday Song: Palpably Impalpable

Body Historian

Borrowed Time

Breaking Free Of Time

But Now You’re Seventy

Child of Time

Choices, Choices

Comeback

Countdown

Dancing In The Continuity Of Time

Day After

Dead

Death In Time: A Film About Puccini

Different Angles, Different Lights

Even Pain Takes A Rest

Everyone Wants Sunshine

Everything Evens Out Part When

Everything Gets Old

Everything Is a Clock

Existence Rolling On

Family Treasures

Filling-Time

First Poem Of ‘Ninety-Four

Flabby Arms

Fooling Father Time

From Eye to I To Aye

Futurity

Getting Close

God Never makes A Mistake

Going Nowhere In A Timeless Moment

Gone

Growing Old?

Happy Acceptance

Happy Birthday Me

Happy New Year

Have I Any Reason To Fear?

Holding On To Spaces

I Don’t Like You Death

Fooling Father Time

I Remember, Why Remember

I Used To Not Have Wrinkles.

I Waited

I’m Beginning To Like Regularity #1

I’m Beginning To Like Regularity #2

I’m Gonna Wish Myself A Happy Birthday

I’ve Lost My Lips

In The Face Of Fleeting Time

Incentive’s Magnet

It All Evens Out

It Seems Like Yesterday

It’s Good To Remember

It’s Little Things That Steal Your Time

It’s Time

It’s Not Me It’s My Hormones #1

It’s Not Me It’s My Hormones #2

Just Twenty Four Hour

Last Ten Minutes Of A Birthday

Leaving Sixty-Six

Let Age Rage

Life Is Just A Bunch Of Decades

Life’s Work

Limitation

Linnea Is Dying

Little Pieces of Time

Living With Death (Before I’m Set To Go)

Manipulating Time

Midsummer Party #1

Midsummer Party #2

More Examination Observation

My Middle Name Is Faith

My Watch Stopped

Never The Same Again

Night Demon Hours

No Place To Go & Nothing To Do

Nothing To Do But Wait

Now Has No When

On The Bus From Oxford To London

Our Sex Life Is Changing

Owning Time

Passing Moment #1

Passing Moment #2

Patient, Actor, Artist

People Get Tattoos

Plastic Faces

Plenty Of Time: Infinity Unlimited

Preaching Again

Pushed Around By Fate

Remembering Mothers and Others

Series Growth

Sitting In The Bathtub Watching A Clock

Sixty-Two: Observing The Change

Sixty

Sleepless Time

Slipping Into A Slot 2

Still Attached

Swedish Turnaround

The Clock Runs Down

The Flower Pot

The Industry of Experience

The Last Quarter

The Marching Days Of March

The Perfect Chance

The Point Being . . .

The Same Two Things

The Spin Of The When

The Universe Is Not A Place

The Long, Long Sundays Facing Time

Out In Town

The Speed of Thought

The Minute That I Meant To Use

There Are No Happy Endings

There’s Tomorrow

Thought Bubble

Time

Time Goes

Time Is A Flowing Sameness

Time Is Dragging Me To Death

Time The Clock

Time The Tomb

Time, As Usual

Tipping One’s Hat To The New Year

Tipping One’s Hat To The Now Year

Using Time Before It Uses You

Very Infinite

Walls Of Artificial Time

When The Cyclic Hour Strikes

Who Cares, What Cares?

Why Do We Need To Reveal Ourselves?

Willing To Take The Time

Windy Water Whips The Window

Winning Time

Wrinkles Round The Mouth

You Can’t Cheat Time

You Can’t Cheat

The Time It Takes

You May Not Agree Now, But Wait . . .

You Never Know When

You’re Making History

You’ll Never Find A Better Now Than Now

Acknowledgements

Biography

Preface

I think that I’m beginning to see myself as nothing but an example of Western woman: worried about wrinkles, looks and aging and spiritual-seeking, sometimes holding in my hand that companionship of a nice, conscious, all-knowing Absolute. Me, I, a blend of both.

In the past, (like yesterday) I was slightly flustered by this anomaly, this oxymoronic set of traits. That’s probably why it’s taken so long (75 years and 9 months as I write) to put my poetry ‘out there’—75 and 9 months! That’s a long time to be dithering. Oy! Do they call it a lack of confidence or what?

This isn’t just a collection about time. These are thoughts about wrinkles, birthdays, tick-tocking minutes, death, illusion and illusions.

This circles around time and Time. The all-embracing.

8.17.2010

A Flowing Sameness

Time is a flowing sameness.

Whether you use it in mind or in hand,

Time is existence’ tightest band;

Using the body to slave away,

For sexual play,

To cook the day’s food:

All to the good, all the same;

Pith homogenus,

Chronogenous,

Dot turned to wave,

To bear fruit, kill or save.

Born at all? Maybe not.

And a dot?

Who can say?

It was-is anyway.

It was-is, will-be still.

In essence still,

It is still still.

© Time Is A Flowing Sameness 95.8.5/03.12.18/04.2.23

Circling Round Time;

Arlene Corwin

A Tad Unjust

Of processes creative, thinking, meditative,

Processes that ought to balance,

Sensing mildly shocked defense

Each time I paint my face,

The quiet race against the hour,

Changes with their shrinking power

Over all . . . Of all

The titles I might choose,

Notions push against a fenced-in destiny

In search of meaning;

Cause and fuss and fuses that keep blowing/

Need renewing for a light tomorrow.

Of the eighty, ninety years we use

We are definitely not amused

But slightly sad, it feeling just a tad

Unjust.

©A Tad Unjust 07.2.16

A Sense Of The Ridiculous; Birth, Death & In Between; Circling Round Nature; Time; I Is Always You Is We; Circling Round Woman;

Aging Hormones

Why is it

Hormones

On the staff of time

Rhyme?

Out of phase,

A mass,

A maze

Of o’s:

Estrogen,

Testosterone,

Serotonin,

Melatonin,

Growth hormone.

Accents shift,

And hormones lifted

From their homes

Are placed into

A new

Perspective:

Impotent,

Without potential.

© Aging Hormones 04.6.12

Circling Round Woman; Birth, Death & In Between;

Circling Round Nature; A Sense Of The Ridiculous;

Time; I Is Always You Is We;

Arlene Corwin

Ageing Orgasm

Intertwined in tenderness;

Excited, yes!

Face to face, behind,

Explosively on top

And pop!

There’s coming—one or both.

Love is there,

Hearts beating hard,

But it,

Elusive and escaping,

Vitiated

Into

Hard-to-put-your-finger-on

Sensation.