The affections of the heart

love, poetry, Thinkings and poems, villanelle 1 Minute

Listen with your ears and with your skin
Feel the other gently in your mind
Felt sensations show where to begin

The senses are  connected, interlinked
In subtle ways we do not understand
Listen with your ears and with your skin

In conversation  neither one can win
We keep a balance as on deck inclined
Felt sensations show where to begin

The evidence  is subtle  even  thin
On the sea of life we leave dry land
The boat is  tossed about like mortal sin

Neglect not now the affections of the heart
Love can be ignored or never taught
Listen with your ears and with your skin
Sensations, feelings ,hearing, vision

 

 

Published by Katherine

I like art, poetry,history, literature,cooking,doing nothing to music.And conversation

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3 thoughts on “The affections of the heart”

  2. Thank you,Syd.Keats wrote of ” the holiness of the heart’s affections” in his letters.I think those affections are undervalued and our whole being is involved when we love someone
    Katherine

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