Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Poetry Exercise: Sijo

Tonight is writing group night with Sharon and Amber. Thanks to http://www.freeconference.com , we write together every week even though we are many, many miles apart.

Some of my blog readers were very excited about the last writing exercise I put up here, so I thought I'd post another one. This one is called the Sijo. It's a Korean form.

You can see some good examples here.
You can read a short definition on a non-annoyingly-busy website here.

We did this on-the-spot last Wednesday evening, which I'm sure is not how they were written centuries ago; but it's fun and it is a good exercise to get your mind thinking in new ways. I ended up writing about guinea pigs and hamsters.

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