persephone.

drink the pomegranate juice 

of mortality, baby girl

the time for innocence is long past

and you can no longer hide

your insecurities 

behind the excuse of youth

drink down its scarlet nectar

let it spill over and 

stain your white throat

the time for words of virginal protest

has come and gone

before you even knew to look

no use crying over

things you and i 

simply have no control over

what's done is done

you bit the apple

you ate the fruit

the time has come to revel

in your choice

live 

baby girl

before the world 

does your dying for you

Author's Note

so before a certain someone goes all snobbery on me *grin* yes, persephone IS a classical allusion. BUT it is merely the tone of the piece. it's not meant to be a literal translation of the greek myth or even a modern retelling.. think of it as the mood lighting. if it still bothers you, i've left some mints to soothe the gag reflex by the barf bags next to the door. *wink*

Reviews

[Antonio Valentino]

Love this Jennie, this one gave me a brain hug!

no use crying over
things you and i
simply have no control over
what's done is done
you bit the apple
you ate the fruit
the time has come to revel
in your choice


live
baby girl
before the world
does your dying for you

Your writing always has some meat on its bones. In all the right places too.

Curvy piece my friend.

Keep at it!
Antonio xx

[alan peter kelly]

yes...one has no choice but to embrace consequence for existence may be wasted in waiting for rainy days to fine up...yes...go out...cleanse and be refreshed by whatever it is that exists today...inspirational jen xoxo

[paul]

the time for innocence is long past : indeed! and
the excuse of youth.

and now i stare at the goose bumps on my legs.. funny how are skin delights so...in things like words.

and i ve ate a lot of fruit in my time
and bit every apple i could find.

to day i shall revel in my choice.
(the goose bumps are back).

and live, before the world

[Tony]

Nothing like free candy and sacks along with a poem....
But I liked the poem better.
Is this an expression of the turmoil within the young girl, having directions stamped on her DNA, but no avenue to complete them in her current paradigm, so as to lend an attitude of:
Do what you can where you can't but you must reproduce?

[Jonathan Ballam]

Ed's little quip made me laugh rather loud. However, I do agree with his observation. You make the tough pieces of societal meat rather yummy. A mature voice - such as yourself - has that ability to manipulate and forge words so well, it's bound to make many people in the crowd uncomfortable.

Yet, if you find those few misfit artists, throwing words like surreal laserbeams, they will take in your deeper gaze and iron words. Perhaps they'll even stand to greet you in their stoned state. I can imagine them feebly hiding their monoluges and thinking... "this is ART!"

[Robin]

the greeks knew the tone as do you

[Fernando Pessoa]

It's been a good long time since I've studied the myth, although I did see Percy Jackson and the Olympians! Your note gives a freedom to your words to become what you wished, and not what we might have formed them into. I love the expanse of time and place you create!

Norman Austin: "If Homer’s Helen is really the same person as the Helen in the cult, her function as kourotrophos has been translated into her terrifying responsibility to seduce brave young men onto the path of individualization, which leads, in the end, to the grave. She is both Aphrodite and Persephone."

[Ed Hart]

a little change of pace; like going from a waltz to a hanging

[Crowley]

This is so biblical in I don't now how many ways and yet not. I so love the message and the humanity and the growth form selflessness to self. I love this. You rock.