Tag Archives: Poetry

Song for Tomorrow

Posted on December 31, 2025 by TaeHun Yoon

I look at myself—not at what I did,but at the thin current under it,what carried me throughthree hundred sixty-five turns. All day people prepare.Some will climb a hillto meet the year’s first light.Others will watch a silver ballfall on a … Continue reading →

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“The Wings of Time”

Posted on December 29, 2025 by TaeHun Yoon

After sending off Christmas—the day we had prepared for and awaited so long—and as we look back on the few remaining days of the year, I pause for a moment to catch my breath after months that felt breathlessly busy. … Continue reading →

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After Christmas

Posted on December 26, 2025 by TaeHun Yoon

Is it truly finished?Or does the real journey begin only now—a long unfolding toward holy openness,toward exodus and release,toward flowing freelywithin the mystery of God? This is the way of Han 한(恨) —not bitterness alone,but suffering remembered before God,wounds neither … Continue reading →

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Christmas: Home Coming

Posted on December 25, 2025 by TaeHun Yoon

After years and yearsof coming back from far away,I see it has always been here. Not as a place, exactly,but as a presence—the kind you walk intowithout noticing the door. We ran our share of hard races,argued the good arguments,kept … Continue reading →

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Closing a Year

Posted on December 23, 2025 by TaeHun Yoon

Tomorrow is Christmas Eve.After that, a weekand the year we named will be done. We count time carefully now—months once borrowed from moons,days adjusted by emperors and popes,winter trimmed, spring shifted,January set at the doorto begin again. Still, the year … Continue reading →

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The Exile’s Flame: “This Is My Song”

Posted on December 18, 2025 by TaeHun Yoon

Between the factory sirens and the silent chapel,a foreign voice arrived—not to command, but to listen,to kneel beside the weary handsthat stitched and hammeredin the dim light of Incheon. The Word was made fleshin the sweat of the laborer,in the … Continue reading →

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The Exile’s Flame: A Duet Remembered

Posted on December 18, 2025 by TaeHun Yoon

(For George and Dorothy Ogle, with Rev. Kil‑Sang Yoon’s Commemoration) Opening Invocation I have known the Ogles’ Urban Industrial Mission in Korea, their courage beneath the dictatorship, their solidarity with the condemned of the In Hyuk Dang, their voices raised … Continue reading →

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Gift II

Posted on December 16, 2025 by wanheeyoon36549f6312

The autumn scenery at Drew University in New Jersey was like a rich watercolor painting nestled in the quiet beauty of the countryside. When the crisp wind rustled the vivid red and yellow leaves to the ground, the young children … Continue reading →

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“The Glorious Gift of Heaven”

Posted on December 9, 2025 by wanheeyoon36549f6312

The sound of Your footsteps drawing near—all creation rises in a shout of joyand sings. On this rough and frozen earth,in this barren wilderness,again this year You come to us—barefoot—upon our thorns and deserts. To those who have never loved,to … Continue reading →

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“Mugunghwa”

Posted on December 4, 2025 by TaeHun Yoon

-The Rose of Sharon – The world receives a new flower of democracy—a single blossom that has bloomed amid a fierce storm. After December 3, 2024,*even as snow begins to fall again, one year has passed,and we sit once more … Continue reading →

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