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February 21, 2017
By Dolly2016 GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
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When you’re three, you play outside
and Mom watches from the kitchen.
Sun shines and birds chirp through
monstrous trees and swings like spaceships.
Thunder crashes. Raindrops ruin fun. 
You pout. “Playing inside bores me.”

© Michelle B., Blairsville, GA

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This is written in a Korean poetic form called sijo. 

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