Han Min Ohn Poems

Birds no longer sing sweet
The sun loses its radiant deed
Flowers become colorless with gray
Their fragrance fails to perform the play.
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My path isn’t the one you need to follow
My difficulties you can’t completely understand and swallow
Every one has their own unique ability to overcome things
And success to their lives they can bring
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Once there was a short-sighted man
Who could hardly see more than a foot ahead
He also was of a bigoted kin
Who always kept others' opinions out of his rim.
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A single fact
Myriad pairs of eyes view
Countless perspectives arise.
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When I was a little child, one clear starry night
With my back on the lawn, I was enjoying the sight
Suddenly I saw a shooting star falling with haste
Brimming with imagination, a wish, I immediately placed.
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A harpist playing his instrument
near a cow
That didn't understand the music a bit.
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Because of five colors our eyes are blind
Not clearing seeing what is actually behind
Because of five notes our ears are deaf
Not actually understanding what is being said
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Once there was a fish living in a stream
Where water was clear and the surface gleam
Food was abundant and large predators away
The fish was passing happily its days
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A child from one part of the world cries
Malnourishment and infectious disease all should not be mine
A child from another part of the world replies
Obesity and psychiatric disorders are things I can’t deny
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A king is nothing if he doesn’t have
Subjects and citizens to rule and judge
A leader without a single follower behind his step
Can’t be named a leader in any aspect
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