The Wounded Statues Poem by dimitrios galanis
The Wounded Statues
The wounded statues
of Athena's city
anticipate spring's healing herbs
to cure anger's hurts.
Unprotestingly they accepted anger's bullets,
bricks, marbles, paints...
They should pay off the losses
caused to innocents by a winter so prolonged.
Why stay imperiously on their pedestals?
Reason to be suspected of in conspiracies enfolding.
They stood there callously,
when frozen people confronted winter's severe attack!
To show that things run on the right track?
Ah, they would not allow statues to favour
the opponent's side
even if only insisting on their own nonchalance.
Faced by demonstrators in gleeful acclamation
they must take sides with them
or else be laughed by them to scorn,
be in scarecrows transformed.
The consequences of their indifference should be paid for.
It is unacceptable people to stare at them astound;
it means treachery and disorientation.
Eyes have to shed bitter tears
when confronting winter's savage assault,
this is no time for artistic indulgence.
Waiting neutral for the Spring to come
won't allay heavy winter's suffering.
Statues have to participate in popular struggle.
Art's primal duty is people's expectation to serve
and statues must to the wintry plight respond!
Oh, Yes.
Would they let the statues aloof?
thank you - your points are so much stronger than the popular media 'discussions' on this topic. I love that you made a poem out of it rather than simply yelling and cussing.
A sad reality. Such acts need to be condemned. I was disappointed too, while walking the streets of Athens and even in Crete, to see such acts of blasphemy displayed.
It is kind of pathetic that people choose works of art to 'demonstrate' their political opposition... A statute or any work of art requires a huge ammount of time, devotion, and dedication from an artist to come to life.. And so-called protestors give no thought about it... As I told you in my messages, this is really an age of stupidity.. People are scared of intellegence.. Mocking it.. Why take your anger out on testimonies of an age almost? ? Without the works of art we would have knew nothing about the ages.. The history of human civilisation is documented through the works of art.. No gladiators without the Colosiam.. Forget about the grand nature of the Churches without wonderful frescos.. I am an atheist, yet I would happily go to a vist at the Sistine Chappel if I get a chance.. Michaelangelo's work at the Sistine ceiling is what we think when we think about the Genesis.. Even for someone who believes not in Creationism that one piece of work means a lot to me.. And we are destroying them.. Shame on our mentality and public awareness...
Αtheists, like me and you, dear Souren, are those who do not worship prejudices, ideas bejond understanding, the absurdum, the unnatural, the supernatural and thus are those who believe to humankind's ability to work for a better civilized future. Religions have to be respected as far as they serve that only purpose or otherwise are not worthy to have our respect.They have to change themselves too, if not on this direction.//Take into notice that our civilization was based on the ancient greek perception that gods are under necessity's loop too.: t was this perception which gave to the mankind the belief that only ratio could meliorate the institutions of the human kind and laws passed by their cities' assemplies.The poets played a gret role upon these perceptions.It were they in Hellada who made the myths and continuasly changed them, it were not any clergy cast who had aany power on any religion dogma.With on word, it was their atheism who transformed our world to the world we live in, with, mostly, ther thought and arts.Thank you.dear.
To the friend of the page Roy Ballard who had the kindness to sugest me a better wording here and there my heartiedly acknowledgements.
Using art as a way to protest can be done successfully if respect is used. To wantonly deface or disgrace it speaks of the mindset of the vandal.
Exactly, dear Kelly. Our poems respect everyone's ''vital'' rights. Vandalism does not respect neighbour's typiical rights.
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5/3/2024 2:55:38 PM # 1.0.0.1119
The politics of senseless violence infects the planet.
what is to wonder about is how the same attitude covers the most countries in so short a period of time.Thank you Barry.