Inspiration for today’s haiku came from my weekly email from Poets & Writers:
Poetry Prompt
“In the red room there is a sky which is painted over in red / but is not red and was, once, the sky. / This is how I live. / A red table in a red room filled with air.” Using these lines from Rachel Zucker’s “Letter [Persephone to Demeter]” as inspiration, write a poem where everything in the environment is red, as though the speaker is looking through red glass.
We search the dry land
for Persephone’s
majestic red shoes
–Margaret Simon
wow!
When you said “we connect across the miles with our words,” you were so right. I was fairly obsessed with the Demeter & Persephone myth at one time. I even tried my own retelling, so I am swooning over her “majestic red shoes.”
The constraint of only one more syllable led me to shoes. I kind of love it. Thanks!
Breathtaking choice of words! I love them.