My 1st DALL·E Painting

<Ember> painting generated by DALL·E

My Korean-American writers' group is going to have a workshop next month with Dr. Mark A. Peterson (The Frog Outside the Well) about Sijo. Sijo is a Korean traditional poetic form which requires the three lines of average 14–16 syllables: theme (3, 4,4,4); elaboration (3,4,4,4); counter-theme (3,5) and completion (4,3). 

To prepare for this workshop, each of us is trying to write Sijo this month. I wrote one titled Ember and tried a painting with this Sijo using DALL·E.

Ember 

Like magic, fanning flames a bonfire’s dying embers. (13)

Long ago, my mom used to fan the agungi* for cooking. (15)

If fanning could rejuvenate my mom aging day by day. (15)

* Agungi is a firebox in traditional Korean kitchens to burn firewood or other fuel for cooking.

(Jan. 2023)