Spring Awakening

I am really feeling the warmer weather (at least during the day) and soft breezes here in Australia. 

Here is a poem from 2011 that captures my spring feelings.

 Persephone,

Spring is here.

Awaken from your long sleep.

Throw off your blanket of cobwebs.

Flowers rise through the earth

To the world above,

It is time for you to do the same.

Persephone,

Rub your cold hands and feet back to life.

Rub the sleep from your eyes.

Put on your dress woven all of bright flowers

And your shoes of birch bark.

Persephone,

Kiss your dark lover goodbye.

Remind him how to keep house while you are gone

Up in the bright world above where he dares not venture.

Pin a list on the wall- he always forgets.

You'll see him again when winter freezes the earth.

Persephone,

You know you don't belong in these dim halls.

You do not walk with the silent footsteps of the dead,

But with the sounds of flutes and drums.

Persephone,

Love cannot be a stone about your neck. 

You were born to freedom.

Walk the bright fields and sun dappled forests,

Live under the vastness of the sky.

Persephone,

Let the rain bathe you and the wind dry you.

The trees are your walls, the sky your roof

The meadows are your bed.

And only when the leaves again begin the fall

And the chill sets into the earth...

Only then lock yourself away

With fire and lover.

While the wind howls outside

Like a cry of despair. 

(c)opyright Laura Morrigan 2011