Feelings: Prefer ”slow Love”, What Do You Look For? Poem by Margaret Alice

(Suzi Malin 'Love at first Sight')

Suzi Malin says how love
is based on observation,
with three categories
for visual attraction –

harmonism: similar
facial proportions

echoism: close facial
resemblance of eyelid,
upper lip and eyebrow,

prima copulism: first
love for mother, father
or first loving caretaker;

and, strangely, a
non-visual category
based on appeal,

“Slow Love”:

When appearance
isn’t important,
no similarities
exist in shape
or proportion,
attraction turns
on friendship,
warmth, shared
interests
and lifestyles,

a rational affection
grounded in reality,
based on the same
goals and aspirations,

a partnership of
parallel horizons,
not based on physical
appearance –

I prefer “Slow Love”
to all the others!


What Do You Look For?

Enclosed
within thoughts
or emotional lenses, distorting
the world as radiant joy or mourning in black –
we modify the world’s vibration rate by our
thoughts

Things don’t appear as they are –
observation is coloured by the unique feelings
of every person… I look for golden hues,
silver shine and soft pastels all
around - and you, what
do you look
for?