Aphrodite (Venus)

Ceramic sculpture overlaid with burnished Copper.

Carolyn Savidge 2025.

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Aphrodite (Venus)

A brilliance of joint purpose,

the shine of pinkish copper, blackened dark.

Scorched alchemy conducts my inner conscious.

Secret about secret softens hard a Cuprum, 

though too often, and far too deep.

Dialogue within turns malleable clay,

makes erotic the oxidising pain.

You talk of seashells, myrtle, rose, 

and dove, sparrows, swans. 

But there, a red blood warrior in conflict, 

intimate goddess of war and peace.

Lust searching lights, sea foaming rising.

Not a rock little life.

No sleep is exempt or remains.

Shards of absence dim a perpetrators heart.

A hollow vessel beats like this,

think on how do we die 

falling into the void?