PERSEPHONE
Persephone is truly the Goddess of the Equinoxes, because She is the symbol of spring and life's renewal when She returns to her mother Demeter at the turning of the seasonal Wheel. And She is also the Goddess of death, who spends half of the year in the Underworld, wife of Hades and the Queen of the Underworld, identified with the ending and dormant time of winter.
My audio poem Persephone's Feast Day
was presented at in 2024 as an audio performance (put to the music of Metisse from their album Nomah's Land) I was pleased to share this poem at the Autumnal Equinox, because Persephone is the Goddess of the turning wheel of planetary life, both the Spring Maiden who brings the rebirth of the world at the spring equinox, and she is also the fearsome Queen of Death who must return at the dark time into the underworld. She is the ever changing Goddess of liminality.
https://soundcloud.com/user-972033003/persephones-feast-day
PERSEPHONE'S FEAST DAY
I offer now bread,
red fruit, red wine.
To life:
to the dreamers,
to planters and gatherers,
to makers and unmakers,
to the innocent and the wise.
To the inarticulate, the lost,
to the hungry, and fallen.
To every transparent lover
wandering these grey bardos
in their solitude. Come to the table all.
Here is a rich conversation
harvested from the last living garden.
A dappled pear, an apple, a pomegranate,
A butterfly in it's chrysalis, winged, moist,
the slow rebirth of color
deep in the depths of this dream.
The weather vanes will turn again.
The wheat has new life in it yet.
The blessing will still be given.
Lauren Raine (2005)
Persephone is truly the Goddess of the Equinoxes, because She is the symbol of spring and life's renewal when She returns to her mother Demeter at the turning of the seasonal Wheel. And She is also the Goddess of death, who spends half of the year in the Underworld, wife of Hades and the Queen of the Underworld, identified with the ending and dormant time of winter.
My audio poem Persephone's Feast Day
was presented at in 2024 as an audio performance (put to the music of Metisse from their album Nomah's Land) I was pleased to share this poem at the Autumnal Equinox, because Persephone is the Goddess of the turning wheel of planetary life, both the Spring Maiden who brings the rebirth of the world at the spring equinox, and she is also the fearsome Queen of Death who must return at the dark time into the underworld. She is the ever changing Goddess of liminality.
https://soundcloud.com/user-972033003/persephones-feast-day
PERSEPHONE'S FEAST DAY
I offer now bread,
red fruit, red wine.
To life:
to the dreamers,
to planters and gatherers,
to makers and unmakers,
to the innocent and the wise.
To the inarticulate, the lost,
to the hungry, and fallen.
To every transparent lover
wandering these grey bardos
in their solitude. Come to the table all.
Here is a rich conversation
harvested from the last living garden.
A dappled pear, an apple, a pomegranate,
A butterfly in it's chrysalis, winged, moist,
the slow rebirth of color
deep in the depths of this dream.
The weather vanes will turn again.
The wheat has new life in it yet.
The blessing will still be given.
Lauren Raine (2005)