Eleusinian – Poem by Gabriela Marie Milton

Beneath the silence of the heated rocks,

Demeter harvests her lost tears,

Tonight, you will be hers, my dear,

Your body arting stones and souls

The ears of the corn will grow in silence,

Secrets of red sweetened lips

Falling to your knees

You’ll drink from my cupped palms

The supplication prayers

Of those you’ve never met

Unknowing who I am,

The goddess’s veil will fall—

Revealing all that once was hidden,

Blooms of blushed and bluish mornings

That once were sacred

and now sleep

Inside the drunken silence

of museums

The Eleusinian Mysteries were a festival and a mystical ceremony held at Eleusis in Attica in honour of the goddesses Demeter and Persephone . It was generally accepted that it was the most sacred and revered of all the festivals of ancient Greece having originated in Samothrace and the Cabeir Mysteries were brought to Eleusis by Thracian colonists. They began to gain great fame during the time of Peisistratus and reached the height of their glory during the Golden Age of Pericles .