korean poetry – Mike Wilson https://mikewilsonwriter.com Writing in the post-truth world Fri, 14 Aug 2020 15:07:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 177517995 Three Sijos on Unbidden Love https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2020/08/14/three-sijos-on-unbidden-love/ https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2020/08/14/three-sijos-on-unbidden-love/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2020 23:05:17 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=755



These sijos appeared in Eastern Structures, Vol. 10, Spring, 2019.

A sijo is a work of three-line poetry from Korea that adheres to the specific guideline of containing 14-16 syllables per line with a pause in the middle. In these three sijos, I’ve exaggerated the pause by setting the second part of each line as a separate left-justified stanza of its own. What I’ve tried to do is write these six stanzas so that they can be read (a) as three sijos read left to right); (b) as six poems that can stand on their own; and (c) as two poems that stand on their own, one in the left column, one in the right; and (d) as a single poem in its entirety

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