Category Archives: Poetry

May 18, 1980

Posted on May 17, 2026 by TaeHun Yoon

May 18 arrivescarrying both fire and flowers. History opens its old woundson this day. A mountain exploded once—Mount St. Helenstearing open the American sky,ash falling like gray snowupon forests, rivers, and homes. The earth itselfcould no longer remain silent. And … Continue reading →

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“On the Yellow Page”

Posted on May 16, 2026 by TaeHun Yoon

– Notice of County Appraisal The notice arrivedlike cold iron in the mailbox. County Property Assessor—a quiet envelopeshaking my aging eyes. Forty percent.Fifty-eight percent.Seventy-five percent. Numbers climbedlike floodwater after endless rain. This yearanother forty-seven dollars,another three hundred forty-four—small printed sentenceseating … Continue reading →

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Journey for Peace

Posted on May 16, 2026 by TaeHun Yoon

— on the summit of two superpowers Peace does not live inside the throne of power nor beneath the ashes of surrender. It trembles quietly between the rising hand and the fading hand— a fragile bridge of breathing. The emerging … Continue reading →

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“The Korean Church: A Community Where Healing Begins”

Posted on May 15, 2026 by TaeHun Yoon

Before dawn,Korean mothers rose quietlyto boil rice,to whisper prayers into steam,to hide tears beneath white sleeves. The land itself remembered sorrow. Mountains carried ashes of invasion.Rivers remembered divided blood.The wind passed through prison wallsand the silent rooms of womenwhose names … Continue reading →

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Lost Words

Posted on May 10, 2026 by TaeHun Yoon

Have you ever stepped into heaven? Words deserted you. Have you ever stepped into spring? Again, language vanished. Warm tears of mothersmelt the icy and broken hearts of children,flowing from generation to generationuntil all sorrow runsinto one vast ocean. Everything … Continue reading →

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“Road”

Posted on May 6, 2026 by TaeHun Yoon

I do not speak for others.There is only this voice—returning, uncertain of itself,still learning its own measure. In sorrow, and in the brief mercy of joy,in the falling and the rising again,there is one road— not chosen once and forgotten,but … Continue reading →

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Losing Poem

Posted on May 5, 2026 by TaeHun Yoon

Strange—yes, quietly strange—after the gentle praise,after the book has gone outlike a child sent into the world,finding its place among unknown hands,there is no fullness waiting for me—only a widening silence,a thinning of what I thought was mine. What once … Continue reading →

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Peace Song

Posted on April 26, 2026 by TaeHun Yoon

I am a baby boomer, and I go on—yes, go on—dreaming of one clear day without war,a day when no nation hardens steel for harm,when no child wakes to sirens in the dawn,when maps are not corrected by fire. I … Continue reading →

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Acorn Tree

Posted on April 23, 2026 by TaeHun Yoon

– at St. Mark in Knoxville, TN I have often stood in awe and confessed,“What a divine tree!”She reads and recordsthe lives passing by.She is sacred.To walk into her presenceis itself a blessing. And after standing beneath her,I enter the … Continue reading →

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Publication of My First Poetry Collection

Posted on April 21, 2026 by TaeHun Yoon

My body trembled through the night with cold.My teeth kept timeto their own hard music,and no waitingcould quiet them. It was Wednesday morning,the eighth of April.I had a brunch to keepwith David, who brought my first book to birth,and Kenny, … Continue reading →

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