The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Thu 3/2/06)

Sex Without Love

How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love? Beautiful as dancers,
gliding over each other like ice-skaters
over the ice, fingers hooked
inside each other's bodies, faces
red as steak, wine, wet as the
children at birth whose mothers are going to
give them away. How do they come to the
come to the come to the God come to the
still waters, and not love
the one who came there with them, light
rising slowly as steam off their joined
skin? These are the true religious,
the purists, the pros, the ones who will not
accept a false Messiah, love the
priest instead of the God. They do not
mistake the lover for their own pleasure,
they are like great runners: they know they are alone
with the road surface, the cold, the wind,
the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio-
vascular health--just factors, like the partner
in the bed, and not the truth, which is the
single body alone in the universe
against its own best time.

Sharon Olds

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RL

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with abandon

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RL

Nice one ... I think it's one of my faves of hers. :)

but I plan on reading more of it...

:D

RL

but "The Father" and "The Wellspring" are both excellent books of hers -- pretty rough but compelling. :):thumbsup:

i find the beauty of sex with strangers hard to explain to the nervous.

march definetely came in like a lion after all.

there was a nice day -- but before it was over it was a high and wild time.

"The beauty of sex with strangers is hard to explain to the nervous."

:toast:

Sex without love is just mechanics......machinery for pleasure within the self...

But if you don't love your partner, then your soul does not participate in the lovemaking......

And then you miss out on the best part of sex....the joining of souls along with bodies!


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you don't love, or at least care about. It seems a bit hollow.

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but I don't quite buy it.

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