Statue of Eros, beheaded.
Genitals gouged by offended Christians.
Gaze raptly at the dimensions of the cavity.
Imagine the marbled masterpiece
Of his more sexual face.
Garth Von Buchholz is a dark fiction author, publisher and producer who lives in Victoria, BC, Canada. Garth studied creative writing at the University of Winnipeg, and his poetry has been published in various print and online magazines, journals and books. He is also the founder of the Edgar Allan Poe 200 Project and Poe International (http://EdgarAllanPoe200.com). Visit his Website at http://VonBuchholz.com to read excerpts from his poetry, fiction and drama.
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Posted on September 4, 2010 in Literary
4 Responses to “STATUE OF EROS • by Garth Von Buchholz”
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September 4th, 2010 at 6:04 am
This is an interesting statue. All the ones I’ve seen have had their heads or arms cut off, but the genitals have always been intact. Was it the Christians who did this? I always thought the iconoclasm was attack on the Greek religions earlier than Christianity. I’m going to have to study history further.
September 5th, 2010 at 5:21 am
I am pondering some remark. This poem leads me to my imagination. Thank you. I will return.
September 5th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
A little confusion in the use of ‘other’ in the last line. Could it give greater depth if it were ‘other’ in place of ‘more’?
In totality a fine piece.
September 6th, 2010 at 8:16 am
p.k.n. – I may be wrong and I hope this interpretation does not bring trouble, but I thought the voice of the poem meant by “more sexual” was that the statue of Eros represented the people who created it and they were intrinsically more “sexual” than the iconoclastic Christians. I doubt it. Probably the wars were about other things. It took the 20th Century and beyond to reach wars between the sexes and other sex wars.