Eros: Sexual Love
Love in 50 Words
Eros, passion and desire
Whose arrows are inescapable
Love that burns, akin to fire
Heady and implacable
But Passion alone cannot sustain
The relationship that from Desire springs
Without Psyche, soul-connection, one should refrain
Or risk that Lust alone only ruin brings.
Love others, and self; Eros and Psyche are Love.
While the Ancient Greeks saw Eros, Sexual desire, as vital to a loving relationship, they also cautioned that sex as the only connection in a relationship would lead to unhappiness, obsession and a lack of fulfillmemt.
Even today, Friends-With-Benefits relationships are sustained by that friendship as much as the physical aspects, whom one-night stands with strangers are scorned as something you’ll regret when the Sun rises.
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Natasja Rose
I've been writing since I learned how, but those have been lost and will never see daylight (I hope).
I'm an Indie Author, with 30+ books published.
I live in Sydney, Australia
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
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Very interesting poem
Lovely poetry and indeed, quite true. Your linking of eros and the psyche were very importantly added in. Well done.
This was so deep and true. Loved it!
Eros by itself is indeed a flighty & dangerous thing.
lovely poem, love the little bit of history you put in your notes <3
Love this series that you have put together! Great poem.