Greek gods FTW! ☀☤♥☁

ichor runs golden through your veins,                                                                 and you ignore those who say that anger is a secondary emotion.             {Hera, the slump of your shoulders is more human than you’d like to think.}

TAURUS

your heart is a lion chained, and it thrashes against the jail of your ribcage.{take up your arrows, Artemis; the forest calls.}

GEMINI

just because they think you are ashes does not mean you are not the flame.    {oh Hestia, burn the fingertips of all who dare underestimate your fire.}

CANCER

you are sweet nothings murmured against shaking shoulders;                      you are kiss-bruised lips, mascara running black down your cheeks.            {line your eyes with contradictions, Aphrodite;                                             learn that they are what make you beautiful.}

LEO

Dionysus, you are the vignettes of wine-dipped kisses;                                   you are the cigarette burns that stamp their necks like hickeys.                           {you are the press of paintbrushes against paper;                                          you are the words that clot behind the tip of a writer’s pen.}

VIRGO

violets break through the snow,                                                                       and nostalgia pierces through you like a January wind,                                  gilding your bones with ice.                                                                           {Demeter, you should know that winter does not last.}

LIBRA

Hermes, there will come a day where you will be free,                                   and the past will fall like shackles from your wrists.                                         {the clouds will always be there to catch you.}

SCORPIO

the sky swallows your screams, Poseidon—                                                     the ocean crests in time with your fury.                                                            just look at how the wind is whipped into a frenzy by your arms.                {those who are scared by your shipwrecks have no right to brave your sea.}

SAGITTARIUS

stop shattering your swords against their shields, Ares;                                 you are the only one who ends up with bruised knuckles.                       {courageousness can be as quiet as a simple straightening of the spine.}

CAPRICORN

let them make you their villain; let them cast their stones.                            {your crown of roses holds no thorns, Hades.}

AQUARIUS

Athena, your eyes are shattered windows                                                      and everyone can see through the cracks.                                                     {you are beautiful and never broken.}

PISCES

the sea and the sky will never stop holding their ghosts:                                   in each wave you can see the remnants of Icarus’s origami wings;                   in each cloud you can hear the wisp of Daphne’s lost-lorn laughter.           {please remember, Apollo, that they didn’t want to stay.}

Persephone’s Flower Shop

Double #inktober cuz I suck and missed yesterday WHOOPS

THE RIVER STYX: A RETELLING OF HADES AND PERSEPHONE

Myths grow in the telling. We change them when we pass them on. We remake them to suit ourselves. Everyone knows the stories. But what if the stories are wrong?

There is more to the world than your cold and lonely kingdom, Hades. I could show it to you.

And the price?

A handful of seeds.

Colored Hermes ~ ♥