Persephone; Empress of the Fall

Persephone; Empress of The Fall They are living balustrades reaching out to incognito riddles Hidden in the maze by branches arching with caresses Where promiscuous light is falling gentle fingers to their pools Tiny cloisters of remembering summers thriving as it passes Pathways lead on arching in vaulted corridors With the fluttering of their bright children Commend their sleepy coloured carpet to the forest floors Blessings for the Empress attending farewell songs for her season Her crown a catch of sun fall flows about embrocated head Rusty red She glides bathed feet dancing on a fluid mist With a lullaby of soothing drowsy to send tired roots to their quiet bed The blue bell flash of eyes shine promises somnolent buds their cousins will not be missed Through the colonnades and halls pervades a sentient peace As age-ed as the stone ring set within the frosted glitter grass As creatures tuck their tails in the curls of winters invocation of sleep This years tale of folklore is written by snowflakes as they pass Persephone is wandering and in all her aspect changing The enchanted incantations of palingenesis whispering kindly to the soil Her memories of the verdant centuries in viridian awakening And from her downy mossy pillow emerges with the blue bell The farewell song is over it has gathered all to her protection And the promise she lays at the ancient foundation of the forest feet Her offering to their sunlight children who fed life’s diligent exultation A salute to all the majesty of a single fallen leaf ( The falling leaf Persephone Her heaven in the canopy returns to the underworld Save in the Fall she is for a moment; free When all her beauty in multitudinous glory is beheld )