🍇 DEMETER 🌾

She is The goddess of maize and corn
Of wheat and all other crops
She is also the mother of nuts and fruits
Of almonds and apricots 

Demeter was a happy goddess who lived
With Her daughter Persophene
Until one day, while in the fields at play
They were visited by Hades

The god of the underworld saw lovely Kore
(That is Persohone’s nickname)
He picked her up from where she stood
And kidnapped her that day

Demeter was quite heartbroken
She had lost her favourite child
But she got some comfort by and by
When Kore chose to be Hades’s wife

Ever since then, the months Persophene spends
With Hades in the underworld 
Are filled with icy winter winds 
After the leaves and flowers fall

In the spring and summer months
When Persephone comes topside
Sunshine and colour circle the earth
Everything is lush and bright

Baskets of sweet, delicious fruit 
Grain, golden and ripe
That our earth gifts us each year
Do this goddess symbolize.