10-30-2015, 11:27 PM
(10-30-2015, 10:18 PM)onmorie Wrote: Hi,
My nic is onmorie. The meaning in Korean is Whole Brain.
In order to be balanced spiritually, whole brained is better.
It's a cool surprise to find haiku composed in English.
In Korea, we have Sijo. I want to compose haiku as well as
Sijo in English.
Oh! Wow! Sijo!
I have read about it, but never actually attempted to learn to write it.
It was quite enough to attempt to learn (still learning) to write Traditional (not modern) English Haiku.
I like to write fauxku as well: Tiny poems that incorporate many of the elements of haiku, but
are much less strict in their adherence to the haiku form (i.e. what some call Modern English "Haiku").
I searched my browser bookmarks and this site was in them. I just tried it and it still works:
Sijo In The Light
Here are four I copied from there: (It seems people have varying ideas about how to format English Sijo.

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