Han Min Ohn Poems

Universe, an endless bond
May have an end at all
So do our minds
Would one day at last
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Life is a mirror that represents your acts
Whatever you do in front will exactly be reflected
Smile into it and happiness you will see
Weep in front of it and sadness you will be revealed
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Jealousy is a thing that will burn your mind
It will help you create sleepless nights
It can awaken your pessimistic views
It will lure you towards the unethical school
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Lose one may through a gain
During the course of life's stress and strain
Or gain one may by a loss
Though in-apparent it may be on first thought.
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Traveling alone in a desert covered with sand
Can you tell for sure which way is correct?
Journeying alone in a jungle covered with trees and bushes
Which direction will be the best one for you to push?
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Once I bought a book of astrology
Which was used to confer my destiny
For so great my destiny was
I dared not to miss a single fact
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Lying is so much like a two-edged sword
It can be used for either good or bad purpose
A lie in some instance can reduce the blow
And relieve some of the sufferer's woe
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A bowl is useful because of this
It has an empty space that can hold things
A room is created from an empty space
By surrounding walls around the place
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The untamed world
Once in a wood a poor girl lived
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Once there was a monkey keeper in a zoo
Who planned to feed his monkeys nuts as food
‘Three in the morning I will give you as breakfast’
‘And four nuts as dinner you will get, ’ he said
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