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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: KOREA Matches Found: 70 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANIMAL FARM, OR SONG OF THE COLONIAL GOVERNOR-GENERAL, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Admit it. You hate the body Last Line: It shamed you to cover with dung Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 AUBADE ENDING WITH LINES FROM THE JAPANESE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of wind hissing through muslin curtains Last Line: We're alive and can see each other, you and I Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 BETWEEN THE WARS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot hear her Last Line: Unspeakable, its icy space [or, spaces] opening Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 BORDERLANDS; FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crush my eyes, bitter grapes Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Death; Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; Dead, The BRIGHT ZONE, by MO YUNSUK Poem Source First Line: Like ten thousand arrows shot into the air Last Line: Be the life of twenty million souls everlasting Subject(s): Korea CHART, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Purpose lost Last Line: To be precisely from nowhere Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Korea; Pacific Ocean; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration CONFESSIONS, by YUN DONG-JU Poem Source First Line: My face that shows life Last Line: Of a lonely man walking sadly %under a blazing meteor Subject(s): Korea - Japanese Colonial Rule COSMOGRAPHY, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Who even came this way, bellow or saw Last Line: Sound as it comes. Alkali, snag snag sang %usher liberty Subject(s): Books; Korea; Language; Planets; Poetry And Poets; Universe; Writing And Writers COUPLE NEXT DOOR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tend their yard every weekend, %when they re-paint or straighten Last Line: On the grass. I should look away but don't Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 DICTEE: ELITERE LYRIC POETRY, by THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA Poem Source First Line: Day recedes to darkness Last Line: Stops writing at all Subject(s): Korea; Language DOES SPRING COME TO THESE FORFEITED FIELDS?, by LEE SANG-HWA Poem Source First Line: Does spring come to this land no more our own Last Line: But now that the land is no more our own %spring can no longer be our own Subject(s): Korea DOVE IN SONGBUKDONG, by KIM KWANG-SUP Poem Source First Line: The city growing with a new lot number assigned Last Line: And is left homeless incapable of evoking %the very idea of love and peace Subject(s): Seoul, Korea DRUNK METAPHYSICS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've never been one soul Last Line: Sixty trillion cells-all drunk! Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 FIVE THIEVES, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: If you're gonna write poetry Last Line: In the lines of beggar poets %like me Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Crime And Criminals; Government; Korea - Rebellions; Poetry And Poets FLIGHT, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We ran from a home %we never saw again Last Line: The soon is mute Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 FRAGMENTS OF THE FORGOTTEN WAR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You whom I could not protect Last Line: I think of a carcass foaming with maggots, the bone black with hatching flies Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 FUGUE FOR EYE AND VANISHING POINT, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the clarity, the sharpness Last Line: Infinite engine trapped in skin Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 GENERATION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was nothing: once we were one Last Line: Each question answered by the echo of my voice alone: I, I, I Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 GIVING A MANICURE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman across from me looks so familiar, Subject(s): Nailshops; Women; Korea GREAT PINE-TREE SPRAWLING LIKE A DRAGON, by KIM CHINT'AE Poem Source Last Line: Who says the martyr, song, is dead? %I see him incarnate in you Subject(s): Korea - Rebellions HANJI: NOTES FOR A PAPERMAKER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shaped like a slab of granite Last Line: My work, keep your mouth shut' Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 HUSK, BE GONE, by SHIN TONG'YOP Poem Source Last Line: Let all glinting metals go %and only sweet earth remain Subject(s): Korea - Rebellions HWAJON (FIRE-FIELD), by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is no need to keep Last Line: Hurls me, astonished and stinging, into the acid light Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 I LIVE HERE, by SONG CH'UNBOK Poem Source Last Line: For the love of this land %for a taste of fresh spring water Subject(s): Korea KOREAN COMMUNITY GARDEN IN QUEENS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the vacant lot nobody else wanted to rebuild Last Line: Who stop at nothing, see life and paradise as one [or, life the one paradise they wanted] Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Queens, New York City LABORS, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: With foremost authority assume Last Line: A bearing. Affix Subject(s): Explorers; Immigrants; Korea; Labor And Laborers; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LAND FOREVER OUR OWN, by PARK PONG'U Poem Source First Line: I waited for love Last Line: This land, our eternal home, %is silent, stained with bloodmarks Subject(s): Korea LEAVING CHINATOWN, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Peeling a mango to share between us, your mother Last Line: Faces, even yours, she might have looked into with love Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Variant Title(s): On Pike Stree Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 LEVITATIONS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw my dead great-aunt levitating over the hudson in red Last Line: Except for the humans-faced masks they kept trying to tear off Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 LISTEN, NAN PAI, NEVER GIVE IN, by KIM SANGHON Poem Source Last Line: How many heroes since antiquity %have known tears? Subject(s): Heroism; Korea - Rebellions LOOKING AT A YI DYNASTY RICE BOWL, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing this plain %white clay Last Line: I am finally ready %to have as they are Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 MIDDLE KINGDOM, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gruel, crumbs on a table Last Line: So as not to frighten her Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 MIND OF KOREA, by PYON YONGNO Poem Source First Line: Where is the mind of korea to be sought? Last Line: The mind of korea has lost its direction. %sad Subject(s): Korea MONOLOGUE FOR AN ONION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not mean to make you cry Last Line: A heart that will one day beat you to death Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Onions MONTAGE WITH NEON, BOK CHOI, GASOLINE, LOVERS & STRANGERS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: None of the streets here has a name Last Line: May you never remember & may you never forget Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 NOCTURNE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If these are not [or, because these are not] the nights of empty hands Last Line: When we'll feel [or, remember] the indifference of the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 OCCUPATION, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soldiers are Last Line: There is room %for everyone Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 ON SPARROWS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are the song that lies beyond the ear Last Line: White-throated. Gold-crowned. Vesper. Song Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 PENRHYN'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO SECOND: 3. KOREA, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In funnel-hats, and gowns of white Last Line: And meets the eye nor hill nor wood. Subject(s): Korea PRELUDE FOR GRAINS OF SAND, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the harbor with its tackle and roped masts Last Line: You sang me beyond song Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 PROGRESS IN LEARNING, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: May be called Last Line: Polity harvest other human constructs Subject(s): Immigrants; Korea; Learning RESISTANCE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snuff out the collaborators, sense by sense Last Line: Summer wind sang through the corpse-forest Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 RICE, OR SONG OF ORIENTALAMENTATIONS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now. %I %see %you %completely Last Line: Fail %me, %thing Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 ROAD TO SKYE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Is paved with sheep shit, among other things Last Line: Who want and want and want, drive to no end Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Roads ROBEMAKER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You begin. In your arms, unreeling bolts Last Line: Here your hand has long since moved away Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 SAD DESIGN, by SHIN SUK-JUNG Poem Source First Line: Heaven %and I Last Line: What star in the night sky can soothe my mind? Subject(s): Korea - Japanese Colonial Rule SKINS, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pretend I can't see %the lady in pearls mistaking me Last Line: So I did sit and eat' Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 SONG FOR THE HOMELAND, by KIM JONG-HAN Poem Source First Line: The moon shines upon the sungari Last Line: I see in my dream the boats %ferrying across the tumer river Subject(s): Korea SONG OF CH'U: TO THE SEA-WIND, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now I'm frightened. I see Last Line: To you already. I want %to be one Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 SONGS OF KOSAN: 1, by YI YI Poem Source First Line: The nine bends in kosan Last Line: Here I think of wui-shan %and read the master chu hsi Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea SONGS OF KOSAN: 10, by YI YI Poem Source First Line: Where is the nineth bend? Last Line: Now nobody ventures to come this far; %they say there's nothing to see Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea SONGS OF KOSAN: 2, by YI YI Poem Source First Line: Where is the first bend of water? Last Line: I set the wine jar under the pines %as I wait for my coming friends Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea SONGS OF KOSAN: 3, by YI YI Poem Source First Line: Where is the second bend? Last Line: The world does not know of this place. %what matter if I tell of it? Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea SONGS OF KOSAN: 4, by YI YI Poem Source First Line: Where is the third bend? Last Line: Light wind fans the dwarf pines %and summer seems out of place Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea SONGS OF KOSAN: 5, by YI YI Poem Source First Line: Where is the fourth bend? Last Line: The woods and spring water are deep and quiet. %I cannot suppress my mirth Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea SONGS OF KOSAN: 6, by YI YI Poem Source First Line: Where is the fifth bend? Last Line: Here I can teach young men %and converse with nature as well Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea SONGS OF KOSAN: 7, by YI YI Poem Source First Line: Where is the sixth bend? Last Line: I shoulder my fishing rod %and return home in the moonlight Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea SONGS OF KOSAN: 8, by YI YI Poem Source First Line: Where is the seventh bend? Last Line: I sit alone on the cold rock %forgetful of returning home Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea SONGS OF KOSAN: 9, by YI YI Poem Source First Line: Where is the eighth bend? Last Line: Nobody knows the ancient strains %so I alone delight in them Subject(s): Kosan Mountain, North Korea SQUID TOWN, KOREA, by CATHY HONG Poem Source First Line: Later, they will turn edible, dry into rich salt hides. But now, they Last Line: Devour all of it, the slimy rawness, severing its ink jet and use its %black to seal my signature Subject(s): Korea; Sea Monsters STYLE, by KIRK NESSET Poem Source First Line: She stood and delivered, unsightly, those nights Last Line: To settle. We're dying, we think Subject(s): Korea; Women THE CHASM, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dream vultures circle above my mother's cousin Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers THIRTY AND FIVE BOOKS, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Never having been here when the sun rose Last Line: All harmonics sound Subject(s): Aliens; Ethnic Groups - United States; Korea; Labor And Laborers; Navigation; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration TORIWON VILLAGE, by CHO JI-HOON Poem Source First Line: Once over, the heart-rending war Last Line: And those full-blown cosmoses %sway in the chill wind Subject(s): Korea TRANSIT CAR, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thunder of wheels on tracks. Hidden pistons punch Last Line: Only clarity remains and it is not enough Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MOTHER TONGUE: 1. KHIMJAHNG, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It held you once. Chora of hands splashing water Last Line: Steep them in the element that destroys and saves Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MOTHER TONGUE: 2. P'ANSORI, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are singing of bamboo flutes and barrel drums Last Line: The part of you that first began to sing Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Go back, you'll never see it again Last Line: Lie to me. Say you forgive me for being born Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 TREE OF UNKNOWING, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Uncertainty, take me into the forest %leaf by leaf Last Line: I wonder who you were: I wonder %because you were Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953 WHAT DOES IT MATTER IF AZALEAS BLOW?, by PARK PONG'U Poem Source First Line: After the blood-gust of april Last Line: Was it to this sad end that I shouted? Subject(s): Korea - Rebellions |
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