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Hades and Persephone-A Flower in the Darkest PlaceThe cold that he felt when he stepped out surprised him.

Despite his expressionless face, Hades was surprised at the sights around him. He walked through a white covered landscape, with bare trees that looked to be clawing against the slate grey sky. The wind was harsh, carrying cold white crystals of snow on the currents of air that brushed passed his solid, armour-clad, towering frame.

His cobalt blue eyes looked around for any life in this barren land. He didn't even see a plant or animal. However, he wasn't searching for those. He quickly walked forward, his cloak and hair sweeping behind him as he moved against the wind.

Hades had not
Hades and PersephoneThe king of the underworld
The daughter of life
His eyes dark cold and icy
Hers light and airy

Light flickers through
Enhancing her innocence
Darkness surrounds him
Shielding his heart

What happens when these two cross?
The king of death and the daughter of life
Does she wither and wait
to accept her fate
or does she warm his shielded heart?

What happens when these two fall in love?
Can happiness reside where light cannot?
or will it slowly flicker away until it is no more
and give into the darkness around her?

They say even the smallest bit of light
Will shine in the darkness
Until it finally gives in
and flickers away

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Hades+Persephone Chapter 1Prologue

Souls scattered like leaves upon the fields of the dead as their God walked amongst them. Somber and cold, he was called Hades and he was the Lord of the dead. So feared by mortals that even his name was not mention, for they believed that just that might bring his attention to them and he would call for Hermes to bring them to the underworld. He was the richest of all the Gods, as all treasures of the underground and soil were his but his riches meant little for there was no one to share these things with.

As other Gods were praised he was loathed, only the dead would keep him company and only the greedy ferryman, Charon, would sp
Persephone and HadesPersephone & Hades

He watched his opposite.
His other half.

(Goddess of the Earth who belonged in the Sun)

They truly were the more he thought about it.

(Dark sun kissed skin & dark firry red hair with leaf green eyes)
(His skin so pale & blonde hair and icy blue eyes)

She stares out with lightless eyes at the river of Styx wanting to cross it.
To go back up & stand under the warm sun where she belongs.
To talk to the flowers & watch them grow while birds sing in praise of her beauty.
Eating honeysuckles & pomegranates & drinking the finest wine.

He was selfish, but even so she would look at him love.

(Her fingers tangled in
Hades and PersephoneA Hades in his own right
lonely and his nights were cold
though the friends of his childhood
kept careful watch o'er his treasures untold,

He found a maiden peaceful there
among the thick rich greens
and tempted her with flowers and jewels
and took her as though a fiend,

She withered in his castle
no light for her hair to glisten
but unlike the evil he so stood reflected
he took heart and stopped to listen,

He sent her back to home and heart
though she took his own in her hand
and once a year returned whistfully
to set a wint'ry glow about his land.
Hades and PersephoneThe Dark Divine Chapter 4

It wasn't even a full twenty-four hours before Hades was summoned back to Olympus. 'If he thinks I'm going to apologize to that little brat, he's even more diluted than I thought.' Hades thought to himself, pulling his motorcycle into the parking lot once again. He had never seen Hecate laugh as much as she did when she saw the pink icing in her master's hair. If he was to retain any pride for yesterday's episode, apologies were not an option.

 The halls seemed quieter than the last time he was here, but that was to be expected. After the small food fight that had occurred the party was cut dramatically short and
persephone's descenti remember how hot it was that morning,
how the room was too small, her voice too loud, her world
too beautiful.
i remember how
hard i ran, ripping her green arts
to tatters with every step i took
away. finally i fell and lay
in the shade of a lightening charred tree
and tore branches from their boughs
with screams that choked me
like smoke.

he whispers to me,
after handing me crimson
promise seeds, that
he had followed a trail of massacred blooms
to the marked tree
and found
me.

he came to me
where i lay amongst the scraps
of leaves and petals and offered me
an obsidian smile,
an open marble palm.
his cool q
Persephone And Hades Persephone screamed.
And with every shriek that tore from her white throat, the agony of Hades and Demeter increased tenfold.

Hades was almost beginning to regret his decision.
And yet, whenever he laid his eyes upon her body, the porcelain skin that almost seemed to glow, draped with a wispy white robe, and her hair, the deepest brown with a blue ribbon weaved all the way through, he could not help but to feel his heart, which he had thought non-existant for such a long time, jump in his chest. Here, in his palace, she could be happy, but she was getting thinner every single day, and wouldn't eat a bite of the food that he brought her
Hade-Persephone chap fiveChapter five: Winter and the dead flower.

Demeter sat weeping, weeping and weeping still. Her heart was gone and her light put out, so much so that the harvest did not come and the earth was cold and bitter. Her long golden locks had turned gray and her perfect skin wrinkled over like that of an old crone. Her nymphs tried to console her but their efforts mattered little, only one thing would bring the glow back to the Goddess and it was gone. Demeter sat at the place she had last seen her daughter, the field where she had left her for but a moment.

The Gods had pleaded for Demeter to bless the earth again but she refused to allow anything
PersephoneSweet drops of blissful memoirs washed across a sinister face
Eyes no longer serene; beauty had not even an iniquitous grace
They had longed for the fallen in the grim light of the night
Only for a bitter taste to smother their saviour in fright.

Ah! But the flames stole thy virginal bloom
And thy beauty sent you to a mighty doom
Dear seraphic Persephone!
What good may offer you his throne?

Woe is you and woe is the tangerine twilight
Whose beauty died at its most splendid height
Tragic passions have always ended in wicked plays
A single seed to count thine last moments in winter days.

Lust is no more sinful than a glance
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PersephoneShe never had a taste for pomegranates until she met him.

Scared of her lust, she trembled to see the sun.

Yet, the sun did nothing to halt her desires.

So she bit her lip until it bled and prayed that her mother would never know.

As she took his hand that second time, she knew that she was all his.
Hades and Persephone"Hades!" she screamed in rage. Silk curtains tore as nails were raked across them. Pillows were swept to the floor and set upon; with a ripping sound there were feathers adrift in the air.

She collapsed amid the chaos, sobbing. "I hate you. I hate you!" Her voice broke into the motionless air, hung amid the feathers, shivered in its anger.

He stood with shadowed eyes on the other side of the closed door. He knew she thought he couldn't hear her, knew she thought he was elsewhere attending to business as usual--knew what she thought of him. When her furious sobs had given way to shuddering breaths he said quietly, "The door isn't locked," an
Hades and persephone chap sixChapter six: Bargains by Gods for Gods

It had been several days since Persephone had been taken back to her mother, several days since she had taken the gardeners advice. How she would tell her mother what she had done she didn’t know but the day was coming. Demeter had returned to her golden self and the fields had returned to the green they had once been. All was good and happy on the earth, all but the little Goddess that sat in the tall grass and seemed lost in thought.

Demeter had not believed Persephone when she told her that she loved Hades and wanted nothing more than to return to him, Demeter had brushed it off as a brainwashi
Persephone - Queen of the DeadPersephone, Queen of the Dead
Chapter 1

Persephone

    My birth name is Kore, but modern readers may only know me by the name Persephone; the name my husband gave to me on our wedding day many long centuries ago.  You see I am the consort of Hades, the God of the Underworld, known by some as the Queen of the Dead.  Throughout the centuries since I took my place within the Underworld, at my husband’s side, I have heard many tales of how my uncle, the God Hades, kidnapped me while I was picking flowers with the daughter of Oceanos, the Sea Nymphs, one bright, sunny day; how as I screamed and struggled with all my might, he seized me an
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Persephone,
That's her.
Zeus says she is mine,
But her mother won't like that.
Her eyes look at me with hate,
But all I see is the greenness of grass in them.
Her hair is red,
Like the fury of Ares.
She looks at me as if I would harm her,
But why would I?
She looks delicate,
Like a flower starting to bloom.
Her skin radiates from the sun,
Looking more beautiful than Aphrodite.

Hades,
That's him,
The man mother told me to stay away from.
He looks at me with longing,
Like he wants me.
His skin is pale,
Like the lost souls of the underworld.
He wears all black,
And not a bright color in sight.
I wont to run,
But I know he will follow.
I've heard stories of the underworld,
None of them good.
Suddenly,
He grabs my arm, and I try to pull away.
It's no use, he has me.
He has is prize.

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Mood: Love !Umbreon0001 Aug 3, 2012  Student General Artist
Lovely poem! :D
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~imagination-is-life Aug 3, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
thanks :heart:
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~evollusive Jul 23, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
You're quite the poet! Also, thanks for the fave :)
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~imagination-is-life Jul 23, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
thanks so much :D and welcome
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~katdav May 28, 2012
You should make a part two, like maybe about the other picture of Hades and Persephone
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~imagination-is-life May 31, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
ok and thanks for the fav
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