Napowrimo 2018 / Day 27
Prompt - Write a poem using a tarot card as inspiration.
Mythic Tarot
The Empress
The Empress
Fecund Goddess, swell
beneath your gown, fertile,
creative, ripening
the grain, poppies at your feet.
Citadel your diadem.
beneath your gown, fertile,
creative, ripening
the grain, poppies at your feet.
Citadel your diadem.
Mourning mother, your
darker aspect. Punishing
Gods' and man, who take
What is not theirs to give. You
Withdraw your gifts, we see dread
Demeter, life denying.
darker aspect. Punishing
Gods' and man, who take
What is not theirs to give. You
Withdraw your gifts, we see dread
Demeter, life denying.
Liz Greene and Juliet Sharman-Burke
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