Held on, or: The road taken

A Sijo

W3 poetry prompt

For this week’s W3, Nigel encourages us to compose paeans to our personal triumphs.

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

Today's poem:

Paean to Asclepius
- by Isyllus of Epidaurus

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/796914335207325696/paean-to-asclepius?source=share

#paean #hymn #praise #inscription #dedicatory #epidaurus #sanctuary #Isyllus #poetry #archaeology

Pope for the people
A humble servant's paean
Easter rites renewed

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April 26, 2025

A quotation from Horace:

«
Best seed of gods, best keeper of the race
Of Romulus, thou art too long from home.
Thy word, giv’n in the Senate’s holy place,
Redeem that word, and come.
Restore, good Prince, thy country’s light of day,
For when thy visage dawns, like spring benign,
The hours more smoothly win their gracious way,
The suns more kindly shine.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/horace/73392/

#quote #quotes #quotation #flattery #leader #paean #plea #prayer #return

Huh. https://grammarist.com/usage/paean-paeon-peon/

#paean #peon

In green robes she wanders over the fields, in the early morning while some are asleep, some are awake, and some are well-aware. So the #paean goes. In Aurora's beam she engenders her hope, spawns her blessings, and proliferate uncertainty among all the living to preserve tomorrow. She roams to weave the free to remain fateful to the distaff of life, forever spinning a new beginning.

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Unfurling Week 28.2 (Wednesday)

Write a story in about 450 characters using the image with the word #paean.

You can either write your story with the hashtagged word or reply to this post.

#Fantasy #FlashFiction #MicroFiction #Promptodon #SciFi #writingCommunity #WritingPrompt

Non-Attribution Image from pixabay