Clouds I: Dancing Eros

By Z J Galos

Dancing Eros: The poet has written his reflections on the subject of Eros. Eroticism has been a great awakening to him through a rather exciting and dramatic relationship of a body, mind, and soul-moving experience that not only changed his approach to poetry and writing entirely but also his life in an upside-down mode of living on this cloud called 'Dancing Eros'.
Wasn't it only for l'art pour l'art, but also a deep dive into the depths of his sensual being he wasn't aware of before?
Being on the Cloud of Eros had been a unique experience with words of wings flying forth from the bottom of his being.
Long live the winged child dancing on Clouds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Apr 22, 2024
• ISBN: 9783759744876

Z J Galos

Born in Eastern Austria, close to the Hungarian border, he witnessed as a young man the horrors of a nation's suppression, erupting in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He finished his education in art and architecture in Vienna, married, and sailed for the Cape of Africa, an adventure that followed his childhood dreams. He had drawn African animals for his art classes, but the time had come to see them in their natural habitat. Meeting a varied facet of people and cultures, working as a draughtsman for an engineering office, as an architect for a cultural centre, and as a coordinator for craftsmen and professionals, he made good use of his language skills travelling throughout Southern Africa. During a trip to Lesotho, a native artist showed him rock paintings with their stark palimpsest outlines and with typified movements of animals and humans. It made a lasting impression on him and influenced his artistic work. His vast collection of drawings and slides had been lost during a change of domiciles, but further studies of the art of the San people reawakened his dormant artistic longing for expression of his art, filling sketchbooks with drawings and notepads with poetry and prose. While revisiting the capitals of Europe, he sensed that the bond of art being borderless and free, was reaching out across continents into the world. During a visit to Greece, he was accepted into a circle of artists and poets, who encouraged him to continue his art and a friend introduced him to the works of famous Greek poets. In South Africa, he joined writing and poetry workshops of Writers Write. It was to open the floodgates of his creativity. He decided to travel through Greece and visit its sites of antiquity, read up on Classical mythology, and enjoy translations of Greek poetry and prose. He settled in 2013/14 in Klosterneuburg-Weidling. Poet Nikolaus Lenau is buried here. Franz Kafka had visited here. Their writings will always be an inspiration.

Book preview

drwg. clouds 01: friends

drwg. clouds 01: friends

Eros seizes and shakes my very soul

Like the wind

On the mountain

Shaking ancient oaks.

Sappho

What are the sources of poetry?

Love and death and the paradox of love and death.

All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos.

Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

Erica Jong

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Thomas E. Mann

Prolog

The poet had lived through eroticism while in love with a woman, an artist, a poetess, an Amazon-woman, who, albeit locked into an unfulfilling marriage, loved her personal freedom, and who would enjoy this quality of sexual feelings with a matching extramarital partner, man or woman. She happened to be an extraordinary human being, who reiterated to her partner the aesthetical quality of sexual desire, sensuality, and the important aspect of soul bonding that became at times so intense that she intended to pause the star-crossed union with her poet and find solace and respite in the arms of her girlfriend.

Passionate love of such a high degree of emotions will burn the lovers to ashes and had demanded for distance from her beloved at times and cool down both their extramarital relationships.

The poet suffered through the physical distance after the initial high-rolling affair and they had the inner drive to carry on with their eroticism that provided them with such great freedom of mind, body and soul that they could keep their relationship alive through the use of an online-love, using all the tools of modern communication for this love at a distance of continents that didn’t feel at all distant. Call it Cybersex, Cyber love, Cyber-come-together.

Desire with soulmates is powerful also on the Internet, a personal expression of a natural force, as love will itself ignite the lovers and will turn them on. But in the case of the poet and his poetess love’s heat couldn’t be turned off that easy, just being at a physical distance.

Eroticism is sexuality transformed by human imagination, enticed by two people who communicate these desires with each other, as the experience is greater with a partner sharing than alone with one’s fantasies, although it might have started that way, also in one’s later soulmate.

In the case of the poet and his poetess, pleasure has also been derived out of the pain of his mate, girlfriend, partner, and writing colleague, due to the fact that she suddenly stood at the end of her physical life due to a terminal illness and the experienced excitement of having found a final love that happened to be so passionate for the times she still could enjoy overall physical lovemaking.

Deeply wounded by this experience, the poet though connected immediately to his Muse, friend, lover, writing pal, so that they could free themselves completely from all trivialities and guilt and enjoy a new found happiness that had been treasured as a unique experience in erotic love.

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Index of pages

Cloud One : Image

Drwg. Cloud 01: Image

Cloud Two: Nightcap

Drwg. Cloud 02: Nightcap

Cloud Three: Seduction

Drwg. Cloud 03: Seduction

Cloud Four: Orgy

Drwg. Cloud 04 Orgy

Cloud Five: Chocolates

Drwg. Cloud 05: Chocolates

Cloud Six: Party Love

Drwg. Cloud 06: Party Love

Cloud Seven: Soixente-neuf

Drwg. Cloud 07: Soixente-neuf

About the author

Notes to poems

Other books by the author.

Cloud One

IMAGE

Wake half in a dream

my body stretches

elongates

My right hand slips

into my pyjama pants

feels my familiar

morning’s hard-on

my index finger touches

the tip of my glans

its lipped