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Persephone

from KC​.​51 by Ken Clinger

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Persephone
(©2002-03 Ken Clinger)

frolicking in fields and forests
vegetation thrives upon her smile
persephone among the flowers
blooming all around and all the while
proud demeter mother’s joy
persephone brings beauty as she plays
eternal spring a floral dance
the foliage delights thru golden days

laughing with the sun she glows
within smiling, dancing in the rain she goes
finding secrets in the breeze
sharing with the trees
she knows

persephone among the flowers
hades finds delight in what he sees
promises of queen of all his realm
the underworld, soul’s destiny
persephone declines in dismay
dreadful thoughts of future with no flowers
hades grabs persephone
abduction to the realm within his powers

demeter senses absence
mother’s loss of child persephone is gone
searching all the planet
every trace of daughter’s presence has withdrawn
neglect of duties, cultivation’s
goddess, sorrow, famine in the fields
rumors on the wind from underground
her daughter’s whereabouts revealed

demeter has no welcome underground
she pleads with zeus to free her child
zeus’s need of famine’s end
a mother daughter’s need to reconcile
he grants her plea, sends hermes down
to hades’ realm, persephone’s release
but in her stay, persephone
has tasted fruits no living creature eats

food of the dead, a bond is made
no creature has the power to escape
hades loves persephone
he offers a solution to her fate
six months of the year she’ll stay
in hades’ realm to keep him company
six months she return to sunshine
bringing spring and summer harmony

frolicking in fields and gardens
vegetation thrives upon her smile
persephone among the flowers
blooming all around and all the while
proud demeter mother’s joy
persephone brings beauty as she plays
spring and summer floral dance
the foliage delights thru golden days

laughing with the sun she glows
within smiling, dancing in the rain she goes
finding secrets in the breeze
sharing with the trees
she knows

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from KC​.​51, released February 22, 2003

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