Tranquil breeze floats floral bouquets with hints of hickory smoke.
Sunlight skitters across the grass as cars tiptoe past in peace.
Cicadas chirp as birds sing a tender song: welcome home.

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A Sijo is a Korean poetic form consisting of forty-four to forty-six syllables, traditionally in a three-line poem with fourteen to sixteen syllables per line, or as a six-line poem with varying syllables per line, with each line featuring a pause, similar to a caesura, near the middle. Read more here.

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