- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Persephone, descending
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Click hereHer captor drops the garnet nubs
Upon her tongue
One
By
One
Six slippery, silky seeds
Beads bleeding red
He bids,
Beguiles,
Betrays
She is unearthed
Floated down the Styx
Coveted,
Captured,
Consumed
Rapacious ruin
Sinuous,
Sinking sojourn,
Subworld slumber
Besmirched and befouled,
Bleached bleakness
Beneath
A solemn season hence
Hades’ hush,
His keep and thrall
The weep and droop
Above
Deflowered at earth’s cleave and cleft
Flailing, falling petals; they rot
Defiled
A mother’s shrieking summons,
Unheeded
Unheard
Nethering silence
Winter’s now dead dread
Leaves brittling to barren ground
Demeter’s tears icy sky spittle,
Sobs stinging shards
Mother’s madness
Abrupt abandon,
Angered,
She bleakens and blackens
earth and sky,
Beckoning,
Begging
Her child back
- COMMENTS
I suffered this descent along with you. Every single word a sword, battering the psyche. Most poignant, most haunting, most raw and apt.
A passionate glimpse of Persephone’s descent!
Your words paint a masterpiece….the image is haunting.
chthonicjourneys said it far more impressively than I ever could - well done! 5*s
The most raw, realistic, subtle and acutely discerning account of Persephone's experience I've ever read. As usual you create a poetic world with vivid language that pushes into what is usually inexpressible. The "sound sense" or aural texture of your verse is so expressive if anyone reads your poem slowly aloud they will have an experience of being physically moved as well as emotionally and cognitively something few poems achieve with the intensity of yours. Bravo.