Han Min Ohn Poems

Trapped in a fog, covering an area so vast
Nobody can tell which way to go is best
Trapped in a fog that is too thick to see
I could hardly tell what is surrounding me
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Footprints on the beach here and there
No one could guess which pairs went where
Some were large and some were small
Too many pairs to count them all.
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Life is full of twists and turns
So are the people making it runs
With a single turn around life’s corner
Smiling faces may become scary figures
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One moonless night with my back on the lawn
I gazed into the sky above on my own
Though there was no moon to light the dark sky strong
By twinkling stars the heaven was shown
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Once there was a tall rock in a stream
It was so large that indomitable it seemed
It stood firm against the fiercest tempest
It did not yield to the occasional knocks and bumps
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Nowadays the world is full of greed
Many people only care what they need
Family, friends and neighbors are just on the fringe
Deceit, back-stabbing, defrauding, betraying they will impinge
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Once, a poor man leaned against a door
And thought why he was so much poor
‘I work more than anyone else, ’ he muttered
‘So laziness can’t be the reason I am poor.’
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I once dreamed of a perfect new world
Where there was no hungry child, none at all
The children played happily with their friends
Beside them watching were their siblings and parents
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Once there was a little girl living in a village
She wanted to find out what her future would reveal
So she wondered to whom should she ask her future
Finally got the idea that it must be her star
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Observe the water in a pond
Keep it still and particles will sediment to ground
Only then the surface becomes transparent and clear
Our reflections we can view without a blur
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