NaPoWriMo April 2021 – 30 Poems In 30 days.

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20/04/2021 – DAY 20

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Sijo No. 1

In pandemic isolation, realisation has dawned.
The answer to all life's problems, lie in the gaps within.
Those spaces of stillness and silence, that have always been there.

©🦊VixenOfVerse, 2021

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Our (optional) prompt for the day is to write a sijo. ( pronounced see-szo or shee- szo {szo as in the J in Jacques} ) This is a traditional Korean poetic form. Like the haiku, it has three lines, but the lines are much longer. Typically, they are 14-16 syllables, and optimally each line will consist of two parts – like two sentences, or a sentence of two clauses divided by a comma. In terms of overall structure, a sijo functions like an abbreviated sonnet, in that the first line sets up an inquiry or discussion, the second line continues the discussion, and the third line resolves it with a “twist” or surprise. For more on the sijo, check out the primer here and a long list of examples in English, here.

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