dVerse Poets – Poetics – Seeing Red
Sarah at dVerse has invited us to write a poem about the colour red.
Photo: unsplash.com
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you will never change the outcome.” Michael Jordan
Red Line
She wasn’t sure why
red had always unsettled her
in ways she couldn’t quite speak,
though she knew an answer
lurked deep within,
she put the book down
and occupied the window,
distracted, sighing,
trying to locate her feelings
which the red line had evoked,
a teacherly line,
forbidding, shaming,
a smallness crept in,
she felt it in her skin,
exposed to the world again.
A bird lighted on the sill,
now engrossed,
undone,
she left red
for another day.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
