Meletril Arvellas

“There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.”
― R.K. Cowles

“They’ve kept the truth
about Persephone a secret,
burying it deep below
Hercules’s murdered wife
and all of Zeus’s affairs.
It’s dangerous, you see,
a spark threatening to
ignite a long dead flame.

Power.

She loved her power,
the Queen of the Dead,
to forever reign
in the fires of hell.
She wore her crown
like a beacon;
a beautiful queen,
plotting against her king.
They never wanted you
to know the hunger of Persephone,
how she starved for something
other than pomegranates.

Control.

The primal thirst
that burns all women’s throats,
denied by eons of men.
Listen closely to the voice from hell, sweetheart.
“You are a queen;
don’t wait for a king.”
― Emily Palermo

“...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid