Category Archives: Poetry

On Rosh Hashanah, wake-up calls by Shofarthe old year opensits hidden door. Along the road,I hear no footsteps— only the breath of frostmoving through the trees. Twenty-five years ago,one morning,the sky opened its wound. I watched the Twin Towersfall from … Continue reading →

Writing a poemis not writing.It is waitingwithout waiting. Let thought fall away.Let yourself fall away.Enter emptiness. Noise becomes rhythm.Rhythm becomes seeing.One thing.Only one. The world gathersinto a single word—flies, returns,becomes meaning. In the stillness,I lose myself.Then finally,I am myself. The … Continue reading →

– 이 세형 박사의 백두 천지 기행을 보고 한라의 백록담 백두의 천지 아, 그리운 나의 강산 그렇지 아무렴 구름과 바람이 되어 우리의 소원 어디에 있든 마침내 자유되리 오가는 단군의 얼 모두 사물로 어우러져 사당패의 장단처럼 한마당으로 살아가리 얼쑤

(- voice of Esq. Kyung-ho Kim) I call the names of those who rose— from furrows, from hunger, from the dust of the earth— the people who learned that a human being is heaven and stood upright with that sky … Continue reading →