Dec 2011
Sijo 1
The rapid rattle fire, red tracers screaming in silent air,
woke me from half dream sleep--eyes open are better than eyes closed,
when ears are filled with black noise, and Victor Charlie wants me dead
The rapid rattle fire, red tracers screaming in silent air,
woke me from half dream sleep--eyes open are better than eyes closed,
when ears are filled with black noise, and Victor Charlie wants me dead
I just read about this form, Sijo (Korean origin, 3 lines, pause in each line, 14-16 syllables in each line) and thought I would try it. In my first offering, "Victor Charlie" was one of the appellations we used for the Viet Cong when I was in Vietnam
