Poems and Prose Archives - The Sacred Hearth

Category: Poems and Prose

Persephone at the stairway to the underworld, a young woman at a cave mouth with a stairway. Someone in winding cloths can be seen behind her.

The Descent of Persephone

Here is a story I like to tell this time of year. Demeter, by whose hand the grain ripens and turns to gold beneath the sun, had a beautiful daughter,

Prometheus and Epimetheus: A Tale of Two Brothers

After Kronos defeated Ouranos, he called together all of the Titans and he said: “Now that the power of Creation is ours, let us create. Let us cover our Mother

A grasshopper and several ants on an apple.

The Ant and the Grasshopper

Once upon a lovely spring day a young grasshopper was frolicking in a meadow when he happened to meet a pretty young ant out on a scouting mission. “Hello dear

A broad view of the sea with clouds and mountains in the distance

Tir Na Nog

Tir na n-Og, Land of the young Far away across the sea Part the waves, oh Mannanan Show Tir na n-Og to me Was a maid in Tir na n-Og

Wedding Chants

The following chants can be chanted around the circle before or after the wedding or handfasting rite begins or during a procession. In our time of joy and plenty We

Spiral Dance

As the sky is the grasses And the river the sea Each part of the other So you are to me When the spring flowers blossom And the trees spread

Sisyphus Tricks Death

Who is Sisyphus this man who struggles endlessly in Hades to push a rock to the top of a mountain, only to watch it roll down again. Who is this

Orpheus and Eurydike

Orpheus was a bard, a singer of great renown, son of the Muse Calliope and also the King of the Cicones, a tribe that lived in the Rhodope Mountains in

Autumn Prayer

Comes the blessed autumn like an artist in the night Painting green things gold and silver In the summer’s fading light All the mother’s children scurry ‘neath the skies that

Thanksgiving Prayer

The Earth Gives us the food we eat The Sun warms it and makes it sweet And we remember all who give Of themselves so we may live The wind