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          You

The very thought of you warms my heart.

A sunny yard to a country house,

That’s just what you are.

Neither splendid, nor pretentious.

Way back in birth, love budded in me

When you captured my soul.

Once in a while, eyes up on heaven,

I draw precious memories out of serenity.

You always stand my tree, an armful around;

A shade keeping an intense sun off me,

A wall guarding me from frigid storms,

Leaves being a nest for snug happiness.

The many blossom trees we have reared together,

Now, home to birds and squirrels and hares,

Are reborn to flames of love in my heart,

Relieving me of many years of inner wrinkles.

I will be happy to water our garden

Whenever love spurts up from deep inside.

You are a huge tree before me!

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Love America!

Come August, saturated with tears,

Rapturous shouts over the Liberation

Pour into my heart in waves of the people’s blood.

Sixty-one years after the Independence

The peninsula is still left cut apart

With half the land yet to be recovered.

With the eruption of red ambitions in a war

On June 25, 1950

Numerous souls fell in a strange land,

Blood shed in was tied us in brotherhood

On which was founded peace we love.

Who’s pulling our heartstrings today?

Cry out, “God bless America!”

Your sacrifice will live forever in us.

Here’s our big hug of gratitude for you.

My compatriots rooting in this soil,

Wake up a slumbering history,

Thirst for its truths.

And drink up a morning on the Pacific

Ablaze with a rising sun.

Liberty, equality, peace are all around.

Give your hearts to America!

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바람처럼

낯설지 않은
음성이었습니다

거칠지 않은 꽃 한송이 되어
한 줄기 사랑의 바람이 되어

골리앗 보다 강한
그런 사랑을 안고
바람처럼 곁에 온
그 분

캄캄한 밤에 등불을 켜듯
한 밤중 별을 헤이는
그런 가슴으로, 뜨거운 가슴으로
사랑의 씨앗을 키우는
부드러운 손길

생존의 근심은 강너머
다져지고 모아진
신비의 그 분
바람처럼 오셨습니다

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대나무 잎

삼백 육십 오일
흘러흘러
한 이파리 돋는다는데

어둠이 좋아좋아
말씀 피하고
자갈과 물 붓고 또 부어
세상 이파리
무성하게 피어 나네

어느날 저녁 노을에
화알짝 놀라놀라
바람, 물, 성령 부으니....말씀 잎새 하나
밤새 돋아 나를 깨운다
육신이 말씀을 닮아

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천국과 지옥

 

 

누군가 말하기를

철학을 배우는 것은

죽을 때 웃기 위한 준비라고 했다

그렇다면 산 것보다 죽는 것이

축복인가?

그리고, 천국을 위한 준비라면

또 있다. 웃음 뒤의 신비를 알고 싶으면

지옥도 있을 법하네

거지 나사로 대신

부자도 그곳에 있지 않았나

손가락 끝의

물 한 방울이라도 허허

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