"Just Friends..."

"Just Friends..."

I whispered your name
today
- again,

and yesterday
- did you feel the air touch your cheek?

I don't know why
I do
whisper
toward you -
still,

but then again
"just friends" do that -

ya know?

Chris

Author's Note

Say as you like - feel free

"Can't we JUST be FRIENDS..."

Reviews

[?]

That was wonderful. Friends are great.
Loved the lines:
I whispered your name
today
- again,

and yesterday
- did you feel the air touch your cheek?

When one is really close to another, seems as though you can actually feel the air touch ones cheek.
This was wonderful and heartfelt, touching. Enjoyed this one

[Kathy Van Kurin]

"Just Friens..."
Chris,
Friends. Does it ever really change? The reality and need and continued caring. Under all circumstances. Yes things change and sometimes we have to release and be released but we still remember. Great reminiscence type poem; a pondering considering presence.
Kathy

[Chris]

Memories are a dual-edged blade...

[Kathy Van Kurin]

You described this aspect very well; yes? I always wonder just what, how and etc is within someone, with you as this poem came forth. Your have clarified. i appreciate it. I hope things don't cut to deeply too often.....life it is sometimes what it is.
Thanks
Kathy

[Chris]

Is always what it is...sigh.

[Ruth]

Yes....they do...beautiful xx

[Renée]

I wonder is this why our hair gets tangled? lovely thought..

[olla]

to be "friends" is the most important thing.. to remain friends when miles and minutes come between.. is a treasure to be cherished for-ever-er...........

[charlotte.daisy]

What strikes me most about this one is the longing you can feel stretched out in the spacing. There's almost a stop/start rhythm that makes the whole piece stutter, but eloquently so.

[Kat Collins]

The line we all hate to hear uttered our direction! It never truly is JUST friends...there's always an underlying tremor. It colors everything in view. I loved how you captured the moment - the phrase...short, succinct, real, and accurate.

[Cardinal Robin]

I consider this like an intro piece to a broader subject. It makes it's point succinctly and almost has a Bukowski backhand. I share the sentiment both from the hopeless romantic, and the oblivion of the banality of the intended yet never rendered meaning, "Can't we JUST be FRIENDS...". The words reach out to the "friend" but they only find an echo.
It's my own fault, I can't take people for "face value"...
You got the stuff!

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

A lovely compact poem....the font is just the right size and the spacing is easy on the eye.
The poet may be referring to a beloved many miles away or maybe right next to him....so close that the whisper touches the cheek as a breath of air would.
Maybe also its to a departed person who cannot speak back but maybe show their presence around his habitat through Nature.

[Dreamer]

lovely piece:) There is sort of an airy feel to it, very light but not simple at all. I find this interesting because those two elements capture the whole concept of 'just friends'. Meant to be light yet complicated as hell.