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    A Song for Demeter
    A Song for Demeter
    A Song for Demeter
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    A Song for Demeter

    By Lasa Limpin

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    This is a book of poetry dedicated to the Greek goddess Demeter, mother of Persephone, goddess of all good things. I hope these poems can be a good place, deserving of Demeter’s name, but I know she won’t mind either way, being a goddess of immense kindness. To be with Demeter is a privilege barred to none, a secret joy open to all, hiding under the simplistic telling of her myths.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLasa Limpin
    Release dateDec 12, 2018
    ISBN9780463293737
    A Song for Demeter
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      A Song for Demeter - Lasa Limpin

      A Song For Demeter

      Lasa Limpin

      Blue Monkeys Press

      ©2018 Lasa Limpin

      All rights reserved.

      Sing Muses of the Goddess Demeter, mother of all. Hermes guide me. Pasaya be with me.

      *

      [I’ll learn to be quiet

      Like birds in a box]

      *

      Demeter seems to be the goddess whose story is about someone else

      She is the goddess who is self effacing

      Who cares for children

      But she is the grain

      She is the grain

      She is the earth

      She is food

      I don’t understand

      She is a body

      What she is matters more than who she is

      Demeter is Demeter without giving

      Without holding your baby

      The embattled space of Demeter

      Peace eludes me

      Mother of all

      And nothing

      She gives

      Life I breathe and waste

      She gives the world

      I walk on her

      Step on her step over step

      I ignore her

      I can do no justice

      When I speak

      If the words are meaningless

      A box to put a woman inside

      She may

      Be the trampoline for another’s

      Leap

      How is this fair?

      Demeter

      I wish not to feel

      To see you

      As All

      I can only see

      Earthly

      Mothers

      Hated for being

      Mothers

      Who put their children first

      Honored

      Disliked

      Respected

      Degraded

      The truth of motherhood

      Is it is the key

      to the hatred of women

      And I do feel the anger

      I do

      I do

      Imagine a woman

      Giving herself over

      To the child

      Losing

      To the Mother

      I feel anger

      I feel anger

      I can’t hide it

      Unwilling

      Demeter

      Great mother

      My highest

      Respect

      I can’t give honestly

      I’d lie if I called you

      Dearest

      I have my own

      Human mother

      Who is Dearest

      I won’t

      Betray her

      She lived in a society

      That betrayed her

      That betrays us

      All your Daughters

      I’d have nothing

      If I tried to reach

      For it all

      Demeter

      I know

      my words don’t

      Offend

      I’ve made no grievous error

      In writing down the truth

      Of my heart

      Motherhood

      For me

      is a killing twin

      I could have easily

      Stepped forward

      Another of billions

      Of Mothers

      Lost

      To the tragic

      Endless

      Cause

      Of children

      The hated bliss

      Of caring for

      A little

      Time eating

      Monster

      *

      Demeter

      the flowers are

      Your children

      The ground

      Gives

      Life

      What of life?

      Demeter

      I have not been

      A bird in a box

      This is no act

      Of defiance

      I would as soon expunge

      a song

      About motherhood

      It’s a private question

      How can I find you?

      If you search for your Daughter?

      *

      Demeter

      I feel

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