The Barbed Wire Fence by Joon-hi You look menacing. All I want to do is to find my uncle, but I cannot do that because of you. But it's not your fault, not your fault. --from the book Hal-Abeoji's Wish Joon-hi, the eight-year-old boy, wants to find his grand-uncle who is supposed to be living in North Korea, before his grandfather dies and he becomes an orphan. Can he find him? ©Byung A. Fallgren
The New Remorse Oscar Wilde The sin is mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Fret, with its restless whirls this merge stand. And in the withered hollow of this land Hath summer day herself so deep a grave, That hardly can the leaden willow crave One silver blossom from keen winter's hand. But who is this who cometh by the shore? (Nay, love, looking and wonder!) Who is this Who cometh in dyed garments from the Saith? It is thy new-found Lord, and he shall hiss The get unravished rose of thy mouth, And I shall weep and worship as before. Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Ireland, poet, playwright, and novelist. He died on November30, 1900.
Stars
Robert Frost (1874--1963)
How countlessly they congregate
O'ver our tumultuous snow,
Which flows in shapes as tall as tree
when wintry winds do blow!--
As if with keenness for our fate,
Out faltering few steps on
To white rest, and place of rest
invisible at dawn,--
And yet with neither love nor hate,
those stars like some snow-white
Minerva's snow-white marble eyes
without the gift of sight.
Ten Days The bell shattered the silence. She opened the door ajar, the chain in safety; her heart leaps to see his face, the past ten days fluttering in her mind; little bird of time. He went to visit his siblings , and she didn't go with him. Law-daughter teased. He might not come back. It was our agreement, Mother said. shortened visit was not in his favor; her stay would be only a few days. When young, they were like, me-and-my-shadow togetherness; when old, they each have their own shadow; they even have their own space for ease. the ten days separation is water; water cannot be cut. ©Byung A. Fallgren
Shadow (From Substance, Shadow, and Spirit, by Tao Yuanming.) There is no way to preserve life. Drugs of immortality are instruments of folly. I would gladly wander in paradise, But it is far away and there is no road. Since the day that I was joined to you We have shared all our joys and pains. While you rested in the shade, I left you a while: But till the end we shall be together. Our joint existence is impermanent: Sadly together we shall slip away. That when the body decays Fame should also go Is a thought un-endurable, burning the heart. Let us strive and labor while yet we may To do some deed that men will praise. Wine may in truth dispel our sorrow, But how compare it with lasting fame? "Substance Shadow, and Spirit" appears in Arthur Waley's A hundred and Seventy Chines Poems (Alfred Knopf, 1918). Tao Yuanming , also known as Tao Qian, is believed to have been born in the year 365 in China. He is one of the great hermit poets of ancient Chinese literature. He died in the year 427.
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