Affection

Affection

A Poem by Lisasview
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Oh so young...Written in early 1970. Unrhymed Unmetered Quatrains

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    Affection


Pressured by the lack of affection,

the air is thick with lust.

All we have is the touch,

feeling empty with loss of warmth.


Seeing you through the darkness,

feeling you everywhere, but near me.

Lost we are, but not together …

worlds apart; yet, touching.


Cool sand at the end of the day …

we lay side-by-side,

separate - alone, hands touching;

but; not together.

© 2023 Lisasview


Author's Note

Lisasview
If you read my work please take the time to review it.
I always review everything I read.
Thank you,
Lisa

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Lisa, I take you at your word that you want a reader to review, so here goes. Keep in mind, that when I review I try to do so as if I were an editor and you had submitted this work for publication.

I applaud your delving into a distressing subject that is obviously painful. I'm not sure you got your message across, though. The first stanza to me feels a little disjointed. Affection and lust are too far apart emotionally, I think. Perhaps passion and lust could work better. Pressured is an odd word choice in this sense - feeling pressure to give affection or pressured to receive it?

If I understand you, I think in the first stanza you are saying this has devolved into nothing more than a physical relationship and there is no longer passion or love - only lust.

Again, really a difficult subject and a worthy effort. I just think if you work it you can find a better way to express these emotions. That's why rewrite, over and over and over and...well, you get the idea.

Mary Oliver says she typically revised one of her poems 40-50 times before it was ready.

PS: I hope I didn't offend you or anyone else. I just try to be helpful but honest.

Posted 2 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Thank you.. I have been writing for about 64 years.. stories...and, words which I now realise are ac.. read more
W. Barrett Munn

2 Years Ago

Lisa,
I would abandon the word "correctly", and I would replace it with "to my satisfaction"... read more
Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Thank you....



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(we lay side-by-side, separate - alone, hands touching; but; not together.) I know this feeling. Kind of like feeling alone in a room full of people. Good write. ~Sharon

Posted 2 Years Ago


Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Exactly!!! Thank you for your review,
Lisa, sunny today in beautiful Spain


why does this have such a ring of truth to it .. I guess its because I have been there & so many times before .. Neville (just back from the beach Somerset England :)

Posted 2 Years Ago


Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Hi Neville, Yes, many of us have been down that road before...and many times..
Thank you for .. read more
Lisa, I take you at your word that you want a reader to review, so here goes. Keep in mind, that when I review I try to do so as if I were an editor and you had submitted this work for publication.

I applaud your delving into a distressing subject that is obviously painful. I'm not sure you got your message across, though. The first stanza to me feels a little disjointed. Affection and lust are too far apart emotionally, I think. Perhaps passion and lust could work better. Pressured is an odd word choice in this sense - feeling pressure to give affection or pressured to receive it?

If I understand you, I think in the first stanza you are saying this has devolved into nothing more than a physical relationship and there is no longer passion or love - only lust.

Again, really a difficult subject and a worthy effort. I just think if you work it you can find a better way to express these emotions. That's why rewrite, over and over and over and...well, you get the idea.

Mary Oliver says she typically revised one of her poems 40-50 times before it was ready.

PS: I hope I didn't offend you or anyone else. I just try to be helpful but honest.

Posted 2 Years Ago


2 of 2 people found this review constructive.

Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Thank you.. I have been writing for about 64 years.. stories...and, words which I now realise are ac.. read more
W. Barrett Munn

2 Years Ago

Lisa,
I would abandon the word "correctly", and I would replace it with "to my satisfaction"... read more
Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Thank you....
A person can be as close as a bubble of foam on a wave but never be part of the sea; the sea, here, being the sea of love; that wonderful oneness that spawns life in all things. I graduated high school in the seventies. I still think it was the best decade yet; the music, the clothes, everything but that stupid war in Vietnam. I enjoyed.

Posted 2 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Good morning Fabian,
I am going over all my reviews ( a huge task) to make sure I have respon.. read more
I first thought of the beach scene in Here to Eternity but then I went deeper into this sensous love poem and really enjoyed it.

Posted 2 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Thank you so much for reading and reviewing my poem...which was written when I was around 20 years o.. read more
Strong feelings come through in your stanzas Lisa, of an empty relationship together in name only. There is a lack of affection, warmth and closeness which is troublesome to one who wishes for something else. Nice work. Happy Monday.

Chris

Posted 2 Years Ago


Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Thank you Chris..
I was in that sad marriage for awhile and wrote this when I was dealing wit.. read more
Chris Shaw

2 Years Ago

Great you had a happy ending. Divorce is painful. I had one of those too.
Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Happy endings are always good....
we can be in the same room, holding each other, and yet miles apart.There can be distance
even in closeness.

j.

Posted 2 Years Ago


Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Oh dear...I see I neglected to thank you for your kind review Jacob.. Sorry, Lisa
Very Poignant as the Stars return at Night... touching on Memories that flutter within reach and give us Comfort and Peace until the Sunrise begins another Opportunity of Eventide where Ships sail with Sails unfurled.
tenderly, Pat

Posted 2 Years Ago


Patricia Wedel

2 Years Ago

God bless you and keep you Safe and Warm. (a missing letter at the end of a word can change the tru.. read more
Lisasview

2 Years Ago

Am I missing a letter?
Patricia Wedel

2 Years Ago

I was referring to my own wording in my review of your poem (I said "God bless you and keep you safe.. read more
Feeling empty in a relationship is one of the worst things. Like a connection that's tied with a thin rope, you can feel there's no strength like there should be yet each day goes by wondering when the rope is going to break. Leaving is hard.

Good poem, Lisa.

Posted 2 Years Ago


Lisasview

2 Years Ago

I thought for sure I had responded to your great review Tim but my Thank you is not here...so strang.. read more
again... another dive into the depths of humans' feelings dear Lisa. unrequited love is harsh. tied together with bodies but without hearts and spirits is real emptiness. no affection. no life. a plastic flower. I don't know what age you were when You wrote these pieces but I see your wisdom since then, and not many have this kind of wisdom my dear.

Posted 2 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Lisasview

2 Years Ago

I was in my very early 20's... 1970's..
Going through a divorce...
Luckily I found th.. read more

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Added on March 26, 2022
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Benitachell, Alicante, Spain



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