To Love, Loss and Longing

A couplet on a renowned Greek tragedy

Ujjaini Basu
Chalkboard
1 min readSep 6, 2019

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In response to Fierce Force ’s One-line poem prompt Note.

Image by Ujjaini Basu

Mourning the demise of his beloved,
Orpheus struck the Notes of his lyre;
his music so moved Hades
that He resurrected Eurydice from the mire.

Thanks to Kathy Jacobs , Harper Thorpe, Fierce Force and the entire Chalkboard team!

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