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Everyday Something

February 16, 2017
By Norm1101 GOLD, Hartland, Wisconsin
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Do you take things for granted,
like gravity, gravy and gray?
The small things we overlook.
The somethings we see everyday.
Like the screen in the window,
keeping the mosquitoes at bay.

© Nicholas K., Weldon Spring, MO

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This is a poem written in the Korean form called Sijo.

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