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    Love Relationships
    Love Relationships
    Love Relationships
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    Love Relationships

    By Arlene Corwin

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    My love relationships have come in all shapes and sizes. Some have had
    the quality of anger, some of reverence, some of lust, some of friendship. All
    have found resonance inside me in the end. All resolved themselves, sooner or
    later, into love.
    Love Relationships divided itself naturally into sections:
    Love Relationships is 222 poems written over a period of 60 years. A
    hundred nuances of relationships, each with love for even lack of love is love,
    if you know what I mean is the fundament.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 19, 2013
    ISBN9781483620893
    Love Relationships
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    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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      Love Relationships - Arlene Corwin

      Copyright © 2013 by Arlene Corwin.

      Front cover art by Kent Anderson

      Photo by Ulf Magnusson

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 04/16/2013

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

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      Contents

      A Hint Of Autumn

      A Man Is A Man Is A Man

      A Mother’s Death

      A Mother’s Dying

      A Mother’s Passing

      A Private Shout Of Love

      A Real Note

      A Woman Involved

      A Woman Paralyzed In Love

      Advice To A Beleaguered Mother

      Advice To Wives Who Wait At Home

      Advice To Women Who Have Boyfriends Twelve Years Younger

      After Sixteen years, Even After

      Afternoon Seduction

      Ah, Love #1

      Ah, Love #2

      Ah, Love #3

      Ah, Love #4

      Ah, Love #5

      Ah, Love #6

      All Trees

      Almost Erotic

      Always In Love

      An Affair Is A Harrowing Thing #1

      An Affair Is A Harrowing Thing #2

      And Yet She Lived

      Anniversary Screw

      Are We Reading The Same Newspaper?

      Are You Bored Yet My Dear?

      Aridity

      August Fifteen

      Awakening of Affection for People Past

      Bath Contemplation

      Behind The Windows

      Birthday Kent

      Boyfriend/Girlfriend

      But Not The Rest

      But Did She Take Their Souls?

      Cat Desertion Is Cat Fidelity

      Cat Scan

      Childhood Friend

      Christmas Love Song

      Christmas Morning Hand-Knit Socks

      Cindy’s Gone

      Coming Together Sooner Or Later

      Communication

      Cousin Roz

      Cremated

      Cries Of Wailing Mothers

      Dancing In The Bed

      Daughters & Sons

      Dead Jewish Mothers

      Did You Think I’d Leave You When I Left?

      Don’t Bother Me I’m Working Out My Own Salvation

      Drinking Wine At Eva’s

      End Of Cat Book

      Everything We Do Is for Each Other

      Examination Of Guilt Over A Dead Mother

      Family Party

      Family Treasures

      Finished

      For Love of Food

      Friendship

      From Nothing Something

      Get It Out Of Your System

      Getting A Name

      Getting Re-inspired

      Getting It Out Of My System

      Gift for Loving (a contrapuntal poem)

      Going Back

      Guess What?

      Hairy Leg

      Half A Cup

      Happy Birthday Anyway

      Happy Birthday, Daddy

      Happy Birthday Sixty-Four

      He Hears What He Wants To Hear

      Hint Of Autumn

      His Bad Dreams

      Hologram

      Husband, Lover, Friend And Mate

      I Am An Excellent Little Boy

      I Cannot Stand To See You There: A Temporary Aberration

      Haven’t Sent A Valentine

      I Live With A Man Who Doesn’t Believe In Reincarnation

      I Look At You With Mixed Eyes

      I Looked In The Veggie Bin

      I Think A Lot About You

      I Want You

      If I Were Dying

      I’m In The Market For A Love Affair

      Imagine, Twelve Years!

      In Our Time

      In The Lover’s Eye

      In The Space Of A Dream

      Ironies & Paradox #1

      Ironies & Paradox #2

      It Sounds Like Preaching

      It’s His Choice

      It’s His Journey

      It’s Readiness

      Just Out Of Love

      Justified

      K. Reads My Poetry

      Lead Me Not Into Temptation

      Legacy

      Life Companion

      Life Is So Fragile

      Little Inaccuracies Of The Mouth

      Look There! My Love!

      Love Can Find You Anywhere

      Love Gesture

      Love Hologram

      Making Love Without Blankets

      Missing

      Mister Moon Looking In The Window

      Mother In-law

      My Three Loves: Silly Reflections Of A Serious Mind

      New Start

      New Year Morning 2000

      No Words

      Not-A-Poem To You, My Dear

      Not Often Dear, But When

      Not On The Same Wavelength

      One Evening In June

      Our Sex Life Is Changing

      Out There #1

      Out There #2

      Passing Thoughts Of A Bridesmaid Come From A Wedding

      Putting Flowers On A Grave

      Reflections On A Solitary Mother

      Re-inspired

      Remembering Mothers and Others

      Respect Utmost

      Revised View Of My Parents

      Rock Star, Star Rock

      Route 66

      Rows of Nows

      Secret Pride

      Seen / Unseen

      Separate Bedrooms

      Serendipity

      Shining Together #2

      Shining Together #1

      Sister In-Law

      Sister In-Law II

      Svägerskan II

      Somebody’s Second Husband

      Something I Must Say, My Friend

      Somewhere In Your Prideful Life

      Spring Tipsy

      Subsidizing It

      Suffering For Society

      Sven Wollter Gets Sick

      Taking Care Of Mother

      Testosterone

      Thank God Those Love Affairs Are Over

      The Beauty’s Gone

      The Child Mystic

      The Crystal Room

      The Finger Moves (a little erotic poem)

      The Great Kitchen Roll User

      The -ish Of The Jewish

      The Kind Called You And Me

      The Leaver & Leftee

      The Leisure of Chastity

      The Longest Lasting Apology

      The Marital ‘We’

      The Mate

      The Mating Frogs

      The Morning Screw

      Morgon Kärlek

      The Nature Of Labor (Is Invisible)

      The Nicer Sides Of Being Ignored

      The No. 1 Question

      The Pair

      The Point Being…

      The Quality Of Mercy #1

      The Quality Of Mercy #2

      The Quarrel

      The Question Of Two

      The Small Things That Kill Love

      The Specialist

      Total Balm

      The Weeder And The Planter

      The Womb

      Something I Must Say, My Friend

      Things Must Be Left To Ripen

      Things Run In Families #1

      Things Run In Families #2

      Things Run In Families #3

      Things Are Happening In Every Family

      Three Years, Three Months

      To Dream

      To Jonathan #1

      To Jonathan #2

      To My Daughter’s Daughter Aged Nine

      To Obedience

      To The Brother I Never Really Got To Know

      Tomorrow Is His Birthday

      Tomorrow Is His Birthday

      Too Much Coffee

      Transparent Parent

      Trees All

      Turning The Thing Around

      Unaroused

      Uninsulated

      Valentine’s Day 2010

      We Feed Each Other

      Welcome Home

      What Could Have Been So Nice #1

      What Could Have Been So Nice #2

      What I Got From My Husbands

      What Works

      What’s Good For Me Is Good For You

      When Light Bulbs Blow

      When Loved Ones Die

      When We Argue

      When You’re Not At Home

      Why Do We Need To Reveal Ourselves?

      Why I Left You

      Why Pine?

      Will You Come Home To Me?

      Without Him I’m Nothing

      Without Love

      Words I Love

      Write Me A Love Song Or Something

      Yes, My Love And Always Yes

      You Can’t Be In Two Places At Once

      You Can’t Fool Your Friends

      You Told Me A Story

      You Won’t Eat Spaghetti And I’m Tired Of Potatoes

      Zapping Accusations, Issues, Priorities

      Before & Afterthoughts

      A Hint Of Autumn

      A hint of autumn, yet it’s August,

      Lingonberry/heather mixed,

      Our anniversary, a—five or six,

      Depending upon which we choose—

      Piano grooved, or when I moved

      Into your life, your land, the interweave.

      I love you still Time flies fit best,

      And yes, to us

      A Happy Annivers-

      ary".

      A Hint Of Autumn 8.31.2009

      Love Relationships; Special People, Special Occasions;

      Arlene Corwin

      A Man Is A Man Is A Man

      Verse:

      There are girls who think that cause a guy’s got dough,

      He’s got added charm, but I don’t think that’ so.

      Why, the only thing his dough improves

      Is what he wears and how he move

      In upper bracket circles of society.

      There are also girls who idolize good looks;

      Love men who only read the latest books.

      But all I the same I do dissent,

      By saying that a gent’s a gent,

      And that they’re all alike in what they represent.

      Chorus:

      A man is a man is a man.

      A necessary evil in your plan.

      A man is a man is a man.

      Be he beggar, thief or king, he’s still a man.

      A man is a man is a man.

      It reveals itself superbly in his pan.

      A man is a man is a man.

      With him you play the game catch as catch can.

      Dear old Gertie Stein set out with wrong intent.

      When she said a rose, she should have meant the gentleman.

      A man is a man is a man.

      And the one thing Boston doesn’t dare to ban.

      We ignore him adore him—the brute—

      Cause we haven’t found a better substitute.

      Each one thinks he’s nature’s gift to humanity,

      And we women know it’s naught but pure insanity;

      So until he’s replaced, I maintain,

      Be he handsome, be he small,

      Be he anything at all,

      Be he poor or be he rich,

      Own a bank or dig a ditch;

      Be he tall, short, fat or slim,

      Be he slow or full of vim,

      There’s no understanding him, but he’s a man:

      And a man is a man is a man.

      Little addition:

      A guy is a guy is a guy.

      Like the onion he can make a woman cry.

      Of course, the onion’s excuse is the peel,

      While the guy’s excuse is just that he’s a heel.

      They do feats of bold and they explore the earth,

      While we girls sit back and laugh in quiet mirth.

      We allow them to think that they’re kings,

      While, like puppet masters we pull all the strings.

      (Go back to ‘Until he’s replaced’—end) with title.

      A Man Is A Man Is A Man 3.1954

      Lyrics; Love Relationships;

      Arlene Corwin

      A Mother’s Death

      All that talent laid to rest.

      She should have been the mayoress;

      Some kind of leader where she bossed,

      Could delegate and still not delegate,

      But relegate all those who crossed,

      To someplace in her mind

      Where she was always right.

      All that talent

      Laid to rest.

      One has faith it’s for the best,

      Though she did not go to that night

      With ease or willing equipoise,

      The dying filled with bronchial noise

      And spasmed arm

      And open eyes—

      And finally a quiet.

      All that talent unexpressed

      And laid to rest

      From time.

      A Mother’s Death 11.17.2000

      Birth, Death & In Between; Love Relationships; Mother Book;

      Arlene Corwin

      A Mother’s Dying

      As I sit here, her body’s slowly

      Shutting down.

      Mine is alive,

      Hormones, organs working—

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