Poetry
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Wild Grape Vine – Poetry from Korea
On the black basalt wall Of Aewol, A single vine leans its body Toward the sea. Oh Sowho is a…
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When Nature Taught Me to Sing
I listened while fair Nature sang, Till every hill with music rang. It placed a song within my soul, And…
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While Listening to Louise Glück
With your calm and measured voice, You summon flowers and birds, The Milky Way and figures from myth, Into the…
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Willing to Bear the Sufferings
The sea of suffering stretches boundless, wherever you swim, pain follows Chang’an holds it, Manhattan holds it, even you and…
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By the River – Poetry from China
Alone, I gaze eye to eye with a stretch of river, The current shimmering pale white. Around me, Nothing but…
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Thoughts of a Cancer Patient
Cancer tests your body; the blight may strike again. And in every heartbeat, in every breath, You declare: ‘I am…
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To My Overseas Poet Friends
Blue birds carry letters across far kingdoms, Our ink and rice paper weave a profound bond. Selected Classical Regulated Poems…
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Living like a flame – Korean Poetry
To live like a flame, To be struck once by lightning in the chest, And turn to ash. Hailing from…
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Poetry: Our Love at this Moment
And when my love Grows heavy-eyed, Yours is there, Again and again, to rouse it back to light. Hailing from…
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Descendants – Poetry from China
Like divine power descending upon vast wilderness and mortal villages; like we stepping barefoot toward perilous depths, tearing apart the…
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