<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366454" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pay Attention! Part 2 (listen with your eyes)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pay Attention Part 2 (listen with your eyes) </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Pay attention! <br>Truly watch the one you’re with and you’ll see what most miss<br>Let them do the speaking, and watch closely while listening<br>Don’t think what your reply shall be, as most people are want to do<br>nor interrupt or comment while they speak. <br>Instead, listen superficially and observe hypercritically.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As much of communication involves facial contortions <br>and body gyrations, as does the actual uttering of words and sound<br>Follow the subject matter with sufficient attention, enough<br>To satisfy your speakers desire to speak, then endeavour to<br>Observe the amazing physicality involved<br>In this most multi-faceted, supremely descriptive, <br>intricate act of tacit communication</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Watch, and hear with your eyes! <br>Observe the unceasing gymnastics of your speaker’s dancing eyebrows<br>Note the many times that only one brow arches high<br>When expressing derision, disdain, or contempt<br>Note the ‘window-shade-flying-up’ effect<br>When your speaker expresses surprised amazement<br>As much optically, as orally, in their discourse</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Listen to their expressions! <br>Watch the subtle interplay of eyelids as they slowly lower<br>To narrow the openings, so as to express deep suspicions<br>Or intense examination in their subject, and more yet, <br>To flutter like bird’s wings, in excited exasperation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Listen lightly and observe heavily! <br>Tis almost a sure occasion that in your daily discourses<br>You but allow to pass unnoticed this rich melange of mute communication<br>This most primal means of information transport<br>That is passed in passed in utter silence<br>Yet loudly, says so much</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Please pay attention! <br>Or you will surely, unknowingly miss<br>Much of this very outspoken, richly textured<br>Delightfully expressed communication, audible, not to one’s ear<br>But only through one’s eyes, and then only to those privileged few<br>Who know to see, when one speaks</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>If my overblown orations and ruminations arouse a bit of interest, please let me know and I’ll continue<br>With a Part III</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Whalen">David Whalen</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366454" data-title="Pay Attention! Part 2 (listen with your eyes) de David Whalen" data-description="Pay Attention Part 2 (listen with your eyes) Pay attention! Truly watch the one you’re with and you’ll see what most miss Let them do the speaking, and watch closely while listening Don’t think what your reply shall be, as most people ar..."></div> </div> </div>

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