Sharon Olds
Published on Nov 25, 2015
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Born in San Francisco, California, graduated from Stanford University in 1964
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her poetry, which is often intensely personal, is noted for it candor and power
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She teaches creative writing at New York University
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How do they do it, the ones who make love without love?
Love has many different meanings to different people. Love is truly undefined and kindles different emotions in every human being
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Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice
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fingers hooked inside each others bodies,
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How do they come to the come to the come to God come to the still waters,
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and not love the one who came there with them,
the poem quite passionately reveals Olds disgust for casual sex.
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light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin?
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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
Today, love and sex are topics that together become a very controversial topic with many question in a society, especially a religious society.
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they are like great runners, they know they area alone with the road surface,the cold, the wind, the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio-vascular health-just factors;
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like the partner in the bed, and not the truth, which is the single body aline in the unvierse against its own best time
Sex without love is presented in this poem as an empty experience without bond, without empathy and the most important feeling for the author of the poem the feeling of love.
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