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Persephone Haiku: Day #29

December 29, 2016 by margaretsmn

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.

red-leaves

We search the dry land
for Persephone’s
majestic red shoes

–Margaret Simon

Posted in Photography, Poetry, Writing | Tagged #haikuforhealing, haiku-a-day, Poets & Writers, red | 4 Comments

4 Responses

on December 29, 2016 at 5:49 pm | Reply Linda Mitchell

wow!
on December 29, 2016 at 7:52 pm | Reply readingtothecore

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.”
- on December 29, 2016 at 9:23 pm | Reply margaretsmn
  
  The constraint of only one more syllable led me to shoes. I kind of love it. Thanks!
on December 29, 2016 at 9:54 pm | Reply Ramona

Breathtaking choice of words! I love them.

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