A limerick
Trigger warning: Domestic abuse
Learning just how to scream Hades' name
was Persephone's debasing shame.
While tending to his needs,
she swallowed only six seeds,
cuz she always pulled back when he came.
d’Verse poetics: Persephone
At d’Verse, we were prompted to take inspiration from the Greek myth of Persephone and write a poem.
This is such a rich myth. There are some powerful archetypes here – the innocent young girl, the grieving mother, the reckless lover, the great king of the gods. Or perhaps you see a girl desperate to escape a possessive mother, or an angry woman who is prepared to destroy mankind to get what she wants. Is Hades an impetuous lover or a controlling coercive husband? What about Zeus? He’s head of this dysfunctional family. There are also those seasonal elements – spring merging into summer; the first cold mornings of autumn – those first frosts that kill off the last of the summer leaves. The bleakness of winter.
Little left to imagination. You are very good at this, David. 🙂
limericks really attract me – not sure why! thank you 🙂
HAHAHA! this is among the most clever! well done, David!
✨🙏✨ Rosema ✨🙏✨
Now that’s an ingenious Limerick!!
❤ thanks, Sanaa ❤
Clever limerick…..oh yes…I understood it. Made me smile because of the rhyming and rhythm, even though the action referred to is xxxxx.
Yeah… it’s not usually the sort of poetry I produce, Lillian… but… well…
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David
Limericks are not usually so profound, nice job of getting to the point and sticking your poetic thumb in the eye of it.
I think it’s only profound if you know the original myth, Glenn 🙂
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David
No good beginning, no good end. (K)
do you mean the story or my poem? 😉
(kidding!)
Starts with N, ends with Y
http://www.yougowords.com/start-with-n/end-with-y
The painful truth and humour in five lines. I laughed til I cried.
Hades was a real devil who took great delight in abusing his powerful familial advantages. Persephone was a the poor sucker who never stopped paying the price of being a beautiful woman.
You really made my day, Sean. I’m glad you enjoyed this poem – that’s all any writer can really hope for 🙂
Yours,
David
My! I’m glad you gave a warning – limericks are always triggers for me!!!
Really? They trigger you by virtue of their form? 😕
Well that was bold and clever David.
Kudos for having balls to write it.
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❤ thanks so much, Cindy ❤
💖 David 💖
Welcome❣️
You did a great job with the prompt…. your subtle/not so subtle meanings did not go unnoticed! :>)
What do you mean by “not so subtle”, Mister? 😉
I’m the KING of subtlety! 😀
Thanks, Dwight ❤
Yours,
David
Ha.. ha … or not so subtle! :>)
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You’re one clever fucker. A very ballsy (pun intended) poem.
I literally laughed aloud at reading your comment, Darius ❤