Poems – Page 4 – David K. Jibson

The Way of the River / David Jibson

Published on January 25, 2025January 25, 2025 by Editorial StaffLeave a comment

The Way of the River: Sijo Poetry in English is a chapbook that features many of my own Sijo poems and resource information on the Sijo form, including classical and contemporary examples. It’s a free download at: https://davidkjibson.com/

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Cleaning for Unexpected Company / David Jibson

Published on January 13, 2025 by Editorial StaffLeave a comment

Metamorphoses / David Jibson

Published on December 18, 2024 by Editorial StaffLeave a comment

My poem Metamorphoses now up on the Oddball Magazine Website .

Untitled Dodoitsu #2

Published on December 9, 2024 by Editorial StaffLeave a comment

Untitled Dodoitsu

Published on December 4, 2024 by Editorial StaffLeave a comment

UntitledDodoitsu Dodoitsu is another short, less familiar Japanese poetic form developed towards the end of the Edo period. It often is about love or work, and is sometimes comical. Dodoitsu poems consist of four lines with the moraic structure 7-7-7-5 and no rhyme for a total of 26 morae (a single mora can consits of one, two or even three syllables), making the Dodoitsu one of the longer Japanese forms. The form and tone of Dodoitsu derive from Japanese folk song traditions.