Best Demeter Poems

DEMETER AT THE CHINESE OPERA


So, I invited you to the Chinese Opera impulsively
Thinking of masks and dragons and triumphant mystery
I though it was time we threw off our coats
Of mourning, you for your  daughter

Stopping one night, on the way home from a party,
So randomly,...

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The moment I walked in on this scorching room,

I saw innocent faces of sorrowful bloom.

You stared at me when I shook everything off,

Holla don’t worry because I can’t be so off.

 

 

 

 

We spent 5 months of knowing each other,

I’m happy enough with...

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The moment I walked in on this scorching room,

I saw innocent faces of sorrowful bloom.

You stared at me when I shook everything off,

Holla don’t worry because I can’t be so off.

 

 

 

 

We spent 5 months of knowing each other,

I’m happy enough with...

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At the altar of the seasons knelt
She says a prayer each year
For to make the cold snow melt
And let spring time re-appear...

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Am I early?
Curly whirly Sue...
Created me and
The Redhead too.

Sunshine the line,
Her fingers typed,
EnterWine d eLight.
Return to fLight.
On the Right Time.
Founded.The Kind Time.
Love on.Time.
!Sound.


~Demeter~
".....Demeter is easily confused with Gaia or Rhea, and with Cybele. The goddess's
epithets reveal the span of her functions in Greek life. Demeter...

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it was as if she was demeter
she was frolicking on the first day of spring
nurturing her body with the fruits of her labor...

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DEMETER CRIES

Sun in center and white wings around
The hundred florae in one stem, cheated; 
My daughter never knew t’was him.
The fragrance was sweet but toxic.
His chariot stood with black steed.
And he took her away to hell.
Long nine days I got killed by inches!
“Why have you...

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it was as if she was demeter
she was frolicking on the first day of spring
nurturing her body with the fruits of her labor...

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oh Hades
your sorrow caused
fills my glass so thick
the things you take 
I shall not give 
I drink of your sad thrill
a moment of this lonely chill
your region is an empty one 
though filled with many things that were 
for the sake of loneliness you take...

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My friends, it is a dismal thing
At such an hour to pound and ring!
Let others shiver if they must,
I shall not greet a sky of rust!
Let first the air be half so warm
As in this covered nest I form.
And then, perhaps, if need of it,
I’ll...

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Harvest my love in reverence
Loft these bushels to sift in air
Husk them to hearts of prayer
Sow true my coming endurance

For each Soul cocooned like mine
Must weather through the coming
Longs nights of less than nothing
No promise to germinate storyline

Push back the harsh breath of ice
Keep us...

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Born on the islands that gleam in the sea,
Born in contentment and born to be free,
Raised in your midst with your faults as they be,
Gone is my daughter, sweet Persephone.
And any flower that blooms in any part,
Has bloomed before that in my aching heart.
And she...

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Gray,
Dismal
Rainy days.
Then leafless trees,
As it gets warmer,
All start to sprout new buds.
Migratory birds appear.
Abandoning the underworld, 
And the ruler of the dead, Hades,
Persephone returns to Demeter.
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