Here we are at the edge of the water
the sycamore and I, the cat and the sun with all that we are.
The water is cool
the sycamore magnificent
I am writing poetry
the cat dozing.
The sun is warm–
how wonderful to be alive.
The water casts light back on us
the sycamore and me, the cat and the sun and all that we are.

translated by Jean Carpenter Efe

“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” Edward R. Murrow, journalist, broadcast journalist

via “No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” — Art of Quotation

(translated from the Korean by geul)

I shall return to heaven.

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When dawn alights, hand
in hand with the vanishing dew

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I shall return to heaven.
Together with the red glow of the sun,
just the two of us playing at the foot of the
mountain when the clouds beckon

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I shall return to heaven.
The day the picnic ends in this lovely world,
I shall go and say
it was lovely. . . .

poem in Korean