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.
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A Song for Demeter - Lasa Limpin
A Song For Demeter
Lasa Limpin
Blue Monkeys Press
©2018 Lasa Limpin
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Sing Muses of the Goddess Demeter, mother of all. Hermes guide me. Pasaya be with me.
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[I’ll learn to be quiet
Like birds in a box]
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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?
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Demeter
I feel