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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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 Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:33 am Post subject: Write a poem about life in Korea (Not Haiku, Sijo!) |
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Over on the world forum at Dave's they are writing about ESL life in the form of Haiku.
Haiku is a Japanese artform.
Sijo is an old Korean equivalent.
Let's write some Sijo about ESLing in Korea.
Here's the form:
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Sijo is three lines long and often about nature, but its lines average 14-16 syllables, for a total of 44-46. Either narrative or thematic, this lyric verse introduces a situation or problem in line 1, development (called a turn) in line 2, and a strong conclusion beginning with a surprise (a twist) in line 3, which resolves tensions or questions raised by the other lines and provides a memorable ending.
For example,
one-two rhythm of the stallion trotting down a country lane
he moves through woods over a bridge across a stream and up a hill
well-worn beneath his clockwork feet the dusty road leads home
Another example,
Bandanas wave from cedar boughs; beneath, a pyre of stone.
On army land Geronimo sleeps, clouds pass over the sun.
This warrior cry inside my head, an echo or just a dream. |
So,... here's my Sijo on teaching ESL:
Hello-monsters deemed students by naive elders fall into line
of fire, each of the other and of me, the tree bending
nay, bearing the weight of rotting fruit neglected by hungry 'vores.
Your turn. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:41 am Post subject: |
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yo students who sit in the sweltering heat
all you haven't done and have yet to do is a mystery
wrapped in leaves and set on the edge of the horizon |
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Freezer Burn
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Busan
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Ajumma clucking while sitting under an umbrella
she spies a waegook glancing haplessly at her fare
ahsa she cries as she raises her prices accordingly |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:42 am Post subject: |
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GI's have come and gone, Euro bankers, Arabs and blacks
These girls really like me! Teaching is cool! To hell with Canada.
Itaewon devours another, soon I'll be posting on Dave's. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:03 am Post subject: |
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As a kid I remember holding an empty cup
of sky to my eye and drinking. An infinite
mystery saturated every horizon. Kids teach this. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:47 am Post subject: |
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Deadbeat Summer heat, humid stall, wrung, prone
outside cicadas come to a hissing boil, strained
vibrating all they've got, strident, bursting quasars. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:20 am Post subject: |
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life, squeezed to unimportance, has fled;
thus I search for some empty replacement,
and finding none, go home sad. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:27 am Post subject: |
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High Summer clouds like balloons on strings sail away
to the four corners, on permanent holiday
whichever way the wind goes, compass malfunctioning. |
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Len8
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
Location: Kyungju
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:10 am Post subject: |
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I'm in the mood for "Hey Jude",
but the doods that are rude in my
class because they have no food
want that I'd be in the mood for some blues
because the blues Hey dood are the coolest for
those who are cued to ...... |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 8:11 am Post subject: |
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Middle school students, you got up at 11, you say?
not your usual pouting, zombiefied, unplugged stare
no, it's Summer vacation and you're back from the dead. |
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