The First Spring

Demeter the goddess of agriculture and fertility. Unlike those In heaven, The flowers Of earth were colourless. Demeter Felt pity, Assigned Her daughter Persephone To paint them In colours. While at work Kore was seized By Hades And held captive In his netherworld kingdom of gloom. All worlds did Demeter search For her daughter But find she couldn't. Distraught She sat weeping And her gloom Pervaded To the earth. Without rains And flowers And grains Earth dried up. A terrible drought And famine. Now Zeus Interfered. He showed Demeter, Kore Imprisoned In the Hades, Asked Hades To release her. Persephone Returned, So did Demeter Earth back to her Former verdure. All trees plants And shrubs Doned in green Blossoms of all hues and Fragrances Everywhere. Butterflies of All colours Designs And shapes Flitted in the gardens Making them More colourful. Bees hummed birds tweeted. All around There was colour Sweet chirps And gay fragrance, A tiny Little heaven Landed on earth. It was, on earth The First Spring. Note: "Kore" is another name for Persephone.