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Carlo C Gomez Feb 2020
the bantering of rain
the insinuation it might snow
the mirage of moonglade
the mountain drink
the desert thirst

everything
resolves with flowers

a withered realm
a crestfallen kingdom
their copper queen withdrawing
from the bitter harvest
in the spirit of Persephone

everything
dissolves into flowers
fray narte Feb 2020
I. Persephone

Naive girls don't make good lovers
but I will sink into the comfort
of your clementine lips, grazing,
staking claim on my skin —
an offering to your kisses made of molten lead,
oh, how surely, how gently they trail,
like a river following its memory lane.

And yet, I have apologies etched on my skin;
I am a poem that bruises quickly
like petals on the soil.
So much for being the goddess of spring
when all I have are wildflowers
and moans scattered on the sheets of the dusk.

We know naive girls don't make good lovers
so cast me, Hecate, into firelight
where all your daughters burned.
Strip me of this sundress;
my chest was half of Demeter's softness
and half of the underworld's wrath.

And yet, I, too, am made of papercuts
forged to look like carmellia buds
lost and slow dancing in broad daylight,
your hands on my waist —
a quiet breath,
a delicate touch:

such curious ways of coming home.
Naive girls, they don't make good lovers
but I will pick you stray sunlights and goldenrods —
leave them by your bed;
these sheets know that
I belong to no throne.
I belong to no man.

And they say that naive girls don't make good lovers,
but only just;
darling, your walls are an eyewitness
to your gaze and my corruption.

So much for innocence
now neck-deep in mildew and anomalies.
So much for springtime,
its fields, now made
for us coming undone.
And so much for winter, darling —
so much for winter.

It may never come.
morseismyjam Jan 2020
As he sinks down,
Down into the soil
he recalls everything.

Remembers what it was like
to taste the sky, and run
through fields of flowers
and he wonders if the man
whose hand he holds
is worth losing everything.

He thinks of the kitchen table,
and of the note he left for Mother:
"Going now. Back by spring."

He locks the door,
puts the last bag in the trunk,
and as he gets into the car
he looks back once
before turning away from
the sun.
it's sad and gay. Just like me.
Kore Jan 2020
you took rubies dripping
from my lips
threw me out of my
infernal home
took from me the jewels
in ropes round my neck
those that dripped from my hair
and the flowers that up sprang
from my step
all for your glory
this is from a few months ago and I just found it again in one of my notebooks - it needs some work but I like how this looks on the first try
Sylph Nov 2019
He finally remembered the song
that song that called Persephone to his Cold sunless world
That spoke the words he couldn't say
The song of love

Hades remember?
That love you felt for Persephone
The feeling that the world was in your arms
All weight lifted from your shoulders
All there is and all there ever was
                      
                                      ­                   Her
Inspired by Broadway HadesTown
Epic lll  - Reeve Carney, Hadestown original Broadway Company, Anais Mitchell

*Full soundtrack*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgsfT2w7FfM&list=PLcZhIiPR2E4UFVQ1tSFDpiPpd1V0v277M
Kalliope Nov 2019
feast your eyes onto this
soak it in
milk, blood, cherubim, and all
feast your eyes on this atrocity;
atrocity, tragedy, calamity
you can't help but look anyhow

tosses me into his bed
tosses me into his garden along with the tulips and chicken bones
waits for me to sprout next spring
i wonder how she'll be-
how she'll bloom
she'll spit ichor and honey through her teeth
annual or perennial
we'll never know

fret not, fret not-
breathe in the summer night
throw yourself down into the garden
bare your neck to the rose bush and forget it all
forget the cherubim
forget the milk
save the blood
save her
Dusk Nov 2019
Maiden and Queen
Spring and Death
The duality of a girl
Who is forced to be more
And confined to be less
O Persephone
Goddess divine
Lover and avatar of little girls
Who must hide their ****** hands
Under petal pink skirts

It is easy to see your story as a tragedy
Poor lost blossom
Forced to suffer underground
Delicate petals
Wilting under a heavy Hand
It is hard to remember
That some flowers
Bloom best in the Dark
fray narte Sep 2019
you held my hand;
fire on ice,
ice on fire,
with that summer-and-flares
kinda smile; somehow
it looked out of place among the chaos.

but little did you know,
and little did i,
that that touch
had black-eyed susans growing
on the cracks of the walls
around my heart.
Gradiva, c'est moi
Kamadeva,
Ecoute ton roi !
Il est moins huit
Dans huit minutes
Huit petites minutes
Ce sera l'heure
Le jour va croître de ton plus long pas d'oie
Ce sera alors l'heure du solstice d'été,
L'heure bénie où les vierges éternelles dansent dans les bois
Avec le soleil sans corps qui dort au fond des loups .
L 'heure, Gradiva, où tu devras passer le témoin
Le pied droit horizontal campé sur sa voûte plantaire
Le pied gauche vertical comme ancré à ses orteils

Comme chaque mois de juin
En ces jour et heure
J'accomplis ma promesse solennelle
J'accède à ta prière
Je te libère pour huit heures
De ce bas-relief de marbre blanc de Carrare
Cette prison où j'ai sculpté jadis ta démarche rare.

T'en souviens tu ?

Tu marchais alors, svelte et alerte
Et l'air sous tes pas se dérobait
Et chantait. Tu paraissais danser
Flotter sur un nuage de cendre
Et tu riais à gorge déployée
Et ton ombre était lustrée de la semence du soleil.

Tu sentais l'amour et le plaisir resplendissait et rejaillissait
En rosée ardente sur mon royaume
Tu tourbillonnais et nue sous ta robe de satin
Tu étais Vénus, tu étais Vésuve.
Tu chaussais du 38, si je ne m'abuse.

Dans huit minutes ce sera au tour de Rediviva
La Reine Pédauque de surgir en arabesques du royaume de Perséphone
Et d'assumer la garde de ta danse immobile
De ressusciter en tes lieux et place l'envol de oiseau de feu
Pour juste ces quelques heures nocturnes.

Pendant que Gradiva éternellement pétrifiée dans sa marche
Brillera de sa langueur immortelle et lascive
Profite de cet instant de liesse du solstice d'été
Dans huit minutes le soleil tombera des nues
Dans huit minutes il fera noir.
Jette au diable ces habits de deuil
Et mets tes colliers blancs et bleus
Pour couronner tes chevilles.

Va, vole, virevolte et décolle, ma mortelle,
Marche en long en large et en travers
Redeviens Arria Marcella, l'orchidée Volcanique et sage,
Descendante millénaire des Aglaurides,
Filles d'Aglaure et Cecrops,
Aglaure fille, Hersé et Pandrose
Viens voltiger dans la cendre chaude et familière.
De l'ombre de tes soeurs et foule Majestueuse les pieds fardés
La forêt frivole. De cette nuit au pied du volcan
On a vue sur la mer
Et sur les îles.
Marche entre les coquillages et les pierres de rosée
Et que ta musique résonne comme le chant de la houle
Entre pins sylvestres et cocotiers
Portée par le cyclone tantrique qui s'annonce
Escorté de ses oiseaux funambules.

Ton pied gauche est un hexamètre dactylique
Et le droit un pentamètre iambique
Déambule, c'est ta nuit, c'est notre nuit,
C'est la nuit nue
Et nu-pieds
Eclaire-la de ton soleil intime
Ton aura lentement emmagasinée

De pas, chants et sève
sur ta chair de pierre
A longueur d'année

Gradiva, c'est moi
Kamadeva,
Ecoute ton roi !
Il est moins huit
Dans huit minutes
Huit petites minutes
Ce sera l'heure
Des feux de joie.
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