Persephone Waits

Introduction

This is my second piece inspired by Justine G. Cappelli's gorgeous artwork.

These are Justine's words about the painting:

With Ostara’s arrival, the world wakes up-buds bloom, the days stretch longer, and light returns. But just as spring brings renewal, it also carries the echoes of what came before. And no myth captures that balance quite like Persephone’s.

Once the maiden of spring, taken to the underworld and bound by six pomegranate seeds, Persephone was long painted as a victim. But newer retellings shift the perspective: she chooses her fate, embraces her role as queen, and finds power in both worlds. She is life and death, warmth and shadow, a goddess of transformation and cycles.

I wanted to capture that duality in this piece. Hades, ever watchful, sits beside her, while Cerberus stands guard.

Ostara reminds us that life and death are woven together, just as Persephone teaches us that we are not bound by a single story, we are constantly growing, changing, becoming.

This is An Ekphrastic Terza Rima, a form invented by Dante Alighieri, who also gave us "Inferno", where he is guided to Hell by the poet Virgil

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The music is "From The Underworld" by The Herd

Persephone Waits

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Persephone Waits Neath A Golden Moon

Three-Headed Black Cerberus Standing Guard

Hades Sitting. She Will Be His Queen Soon

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Taken To The Underworld By Her Lord

Six Pomegranate Seeds Set To Bind Her

In This Dark Place She Is Queen, Shown Regard

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The Mistress Of Life And Death, Magic Stirs

Hades Is Her King, They Rule Together

Persepehone Watches All Life's Affairs

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Queen Of The Underworld Now Forever

Cerberus Growls, Guarding Hell's Dark Entrance

Persephone Renewas Her Endeavour

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Persephone Begins Ostara's Dance

As The Land Reawakes To Thankful Chants

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