sijo – Mike Wilson https://mikewilsonwriter.com Writing in the post-truth world Sun, 10 Mar 2024 19:55:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 177517995 A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion, a sijo… https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2024/03/24/a-stubbornly-persistent-illusion-a-sijo-2/ https://mikewilsonwriter.com/2024/03/24/a-stubbornly-persistent-illusion-a-sijo-2/#respond Sun, 24 Mar 2024 19:53:06 +0000 https://mikewilsonwriter.com/?p=2939

Sijo by Mike Wilson, photo by Mak, appeared in Eastern Structures

Sijo is a Korean form that requires three lines of 14-16 syllables with a pause in the middle of each line

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Sijo-Mike Wilson, photo-Sam Moqadam first appeared in Eastern Structures

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Sijo-Mike Wilson, photo-Oliver Ash, appeared in Eastern Structures,
A Sijo is a Korean form that requires three lines of 14-16 syllables with a pause in the middle of each line
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Sijo-Mike Wilson, photo-Jonathan Cooper, appeared in Eastern Structures                                    
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Sijo by Mike Wilson, photo by Mak (Unsplash)                                    
 
“A Stubbornly Persistent Ilusion,” by Mike Wilson, first appeared in Eastern Structures, No. 15, Summer 2020. It is a Sijo, a Korean form that requires three lines of 14-16 syllables with a pause in the middle of each line
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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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