This page has a list of some sijos I've written over the years. 
Hope you enjoy!

Sijos

Sijos

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Wallaby

The Valley

The Son

Pureté

Penance

OviD

Made to Be

connection

Charade

Charade

Notes

Charade [2022] was written in an exercise with a series of sijos based on various animated films.
This one is inspired by The Princess and the Frog by Disney (2009).

Charade

Woeful past, woeful present, and woeful future to come,
Despite kindness shown to those around, affection is not found
To be deserved nor warranted as a cure to cursèd strangers. 

Charade [2022] was written in an exercise with a series of sijos based on various animated films. This one is inspired by The Princess and the Frog by Disney (2009).

Woeful past, woeful present, and woeful future to come,
Despite kindness shown to those around, affection is not found
To be deserved nor warranted as a cure to cursèd strangers.

Connection

Notes

Connection [2022] was written in an exercise with a series of sijos based on various animated films.
This one is inspired by The Fox and the Hound by Disney (1982).

Connection

Timely separated, family bound. Timely found again.
Fickle fates and philosophies, the way you hound what is left
of my Reynard habits and civilise our twin flamed hearts.

Connection [2022] was written in an exercise with a series of sijos based on various animated films. This one is inspired by The Fox and the Hound by Disney (1982).

Timely separated, family bound.
Timely found again.
Fickle fates and philosophies,
the way you hound what is left
of my Reynard habits
and civilise our twin flamed hearts.

Made To Be

Notes

Made To Be [2022] was written in an exercise with a series of sijos based on various animated films.
This one is inspired by The Little Mermaid by Disney (1989).

Made To Be

Star-crossed crafted soulmates silenced by their own design
Tied into the tragic circumstance only undone through
Acceptance of sacrifices made and poor decisions done.

Made To Be [2022] was written in an exercise with a series of sijos based on various animated films. This one is inspired by The Little Mermaid by Disney (1989).

Star-crossed crafted soulmates
silenced by their own design
Tied into the tragic circumstance
only undone through
Acceptance of sacrifices made
and poor decisions done.

Ovid

Notes

Ovid [2022] was written in an exercise with a series of sijos based on various animated films.
This one is inspired by Beauty and the Beast by Disney (1991).

Ovid

Never shall a cure be known; never shall a love be sown
In the heart of those whom the daffodil’s namesake act,
For the echoes must fade anon, lest our shadows be left alone.

The Son [2022] was written in an exercise with a series of sijos based on various animated films. This one is inspired by Beauty and the Beast by Disney (1991).

Never shall a cure be known;
never shall a love be sown
In the heart of those
whom the daffodil’s namesake act,
For the echoes must fade anon,
lest our shadows be left alone.

Penance

Notes

Penance [2022] was written in an exercise with a series of sijos based on various animated films.
This one is inspired by Sleeping Beauty by Disney (1959).

Penance

The sleeping knight of pallor skin, of dreamless rest and life sinned,
Mummified in metal coffin to keep from candied temptation
Of Death whom, sweetness given is too kind for such situation.

Penance [2022] was written in an exercise with
a series of sijos based on various animated films.
This one is inspired by Sleeping Beauty by Disney (1959).

The sleeping knight of pallor skin,
of dreamless rest and life sinned,
Mummified in metal coffin
to keep from candied temptation
Of Death whom, sweetness given
is too kind for such situation.

Pureté

Notes

Pureté [2022] was written in an exercise with a series of sijos based on various animated films.
This one is inspired by Barbie of Swan Lake (2003).

Pureté

Branched and spread, tainted pallet, a fawn left with her hunter,
Kirtles stained with madder root, tunics ragged by ego,
Tchaikovsky notes for softened blow, fractured for the vultures.

Pureté [2022] was written in an exercise with
a series of sijos based on various animated films.
This one is inspired by Barbie of Swan Lake (2003).

Branched and spread, tainted pallet,
a fawn left with her hunter,
Kirtles stained with madder root,
tunics ragged by ego,
Tchaikovsky notes for softened blow,
fractured for the vultures.

The Son

Notes

The Son [2022] was written in an exercise with a series of sijos based on various animated films.
This one is inspired by Hercules by Disney (1997).

The Son

Respect of which his father gave, or held above his head
Akin to rites of passage for the earnéd rights to be a man,
Such is how affection gained, in lieu of storgé given freed.

The Son [2022] was written in an exercise with
a series of sijos based on various animated films.
This one is inspired by Hercules by Disney (1997).

Respect of which his father gave,
or held above his head
Akin to rites of passage
for the earnéd rights to be a man,
Such is how affection gained,
in lieu of storgé given freed.

The Valley  #1

Notes

The Valley [2024] was written in two versions. Originally as a sijo and then edited as a haiku.
It was an experiment to figure out how I can express the same image with different constraints.
It was inspired by the valley my grandparents live in west of Sydney, between Wollomi and Yengo National Park.

The Valley  #1

The valley cries its teary mist, green turned glittering emerald.
Smoke from chimney, steam from cup twirls its way upwards to meet it.
No metal could compare to the richness of breathing freely.

The Valley [2024] was written in two versions.
Originally as a sijo and then edited as a haiku. It was an experiment to figure out how I can express the same image with different constraints. It was inspired by the valley my grandparents live in west of Sydney, between Wollomi and Yengo National Park.

The valley cries its teary mist,
green turned glittering emerald.
Smoke from chimney, steam from cup
twirls its way upwards to meet it.
No metal could compare
to the richness of breathing freely.

haiku

Wallaby

Notes

Wallaby [2026] was written in my grandparents' place in the valley.

Wallaby

A sneeze behind grass, spotted outside cold curves of wire fencing,
Two coats: of russet, of blue—neither fulfilling its task.
We lament winter, and continue snacking through the sunset.

Wallaby [2026] was written in my
grandparents' place in the valley.

A sneeze behind grass,
spotted outside cold curves of wire fencing,
Two coats: of russet, of blue—
neither fulfilling its task.
We lament winter,
and continue snacking through the sunset.