flowers' sweet scent
tangled in summer's breeze
is captivating and brief —
Queen's gone to the underworld
and the land's left in the cold
mother's little girl
was taken so young from mom
and joy left with her —
now wintry days are dark
and frigid nights are long
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Author Notes
PERSEPHONE is a character in a Greek myth. In reality, it would be a horror story about a kidnapping, an incestual relationship, and statutory rape. The story is about a girl kidnapped by her uncle and taken to hell. He was 2000 years old and she was 19 years old.
Persephone's Greek Myth: Persephone, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the underworld after her abduction by her uncle Hades, the king of the underworld. She missed her mother, Demeter, Goddess of Nature and the Seasons. Hades was in-love with Persophony and to make her happy, he allowed her to go back to the surface to visit Demeter six months out of the year. In time, Persephone came to love Hades. The myth of taking her to the underworld and temporarily returning her to the surface represents the embodiment of spring and her return to the underworld represents winter. In Classical Greek art, Persephone is invariably portrayed as robed, often carrying a pomegranate.
Painting by Chie Yoshii
TANKA is a Japanese poetic form that originated in Japan's Imperial Court, where the men and women engaged in courtship would exchange tanka after an intimate night. This poetic form was created 1,200 years ago. FORM: It's written in a concise manner of 31 syllables (5/7/5/7/7) OR LESS because Japanese and English syllables are different. Personification, metaphor, and simile are permitted in Tanka. Capitalization and punctuation should only be used when necessary and it never rhymes. click here if you want to see tanka rules - click here if you want to see modern tanka examples - click here to read Tanka Society of America
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Gypsy Word Weaver
"Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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