A poem about someone’s visit to a magnificent place:
Poetic Asides – Visitor’s Poem and Being Poetry – Describe a magnificent place, then count the words and reduce them by 50%
[Notes: 1. It is a Sijo. 2. The second variant is reduced by 50%]
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Below the azure sky rises a blinding rocky peak,
Breath-taking with its whiteness, sublimely crushing my high pride.
I never stop coming to watch and imbibe its grandeur.
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Below azure sky – rocky peak
breath-taking, whiteness, crushing pride
I stop, watch – grandeur.
© 2012 Mariya Koleva
