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Best South Korean Poems


Knowing and Believing
I believe
Because I don’t know

I know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west
I know spring follows summer
Summer follows autumn 
Then winter

But do I know God exists?
No, I don’t
That's why I believe

Why do you believe?

Because it gives me hope
It gives me strength
To...

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Categories: south korean, god,
Form: Free verse
Dukkha
Is it duende, if I say 
the streets are empty, 
the nameless streets,
empty, but watching,
hollow, but watching,
as if with soju eyes...

as if with eyes that see me
only as I seem, always as I seem,
but never as I am....

would you call it beautiful,
if pain is beautiful,
would...

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Categories: south korean, deep, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Ade Orogbemi
Ade is a 2.5 wheelchair basketball player, 
Who was born in Lagos in Nigeria in 1978,
His home town is Liverpool, a Mersey sayer,
In Spain club BSR Amiab Albacete is a date. 

He lives partly in London, joined the Bullets,
And he’s travelled with the sport worldwide,...

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Categories: south korean, basketball, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Jorgesouthkorea
This is the man that I am

No need for a detective because I have few mysteries

Whatever you don’t find its trapped somewhere inside my mind

I put my life into words for the whole world to read

I hope you enjoy what you see

A South Korean English...

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Categories: south korean, adventure, faith, family, fantasy,
Form: Light Verse
The Gangham Crisis
because the music industry is
dead as a ****ing doornail,
they grip hold as long as possible
to whatever pop singer can pull
in the most idiots to sell whatever
can be marketed by these big useless
companies that used to feed us CD’s
& have a monopoly on the recording
process,
until
we discovered
how...

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Categories: south korean, life, war, music, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Celebrity Crush
I could watch you all day
Listen to your velvety voice
as I dream the hours away
I wonder, is that OK?

A waste of time
some might say
Granted...that may be true,
but what's more beautiful than you
They don't know the sublime
Needs adoration's attention
Unadulterated affection
The crave of connection

You're my fantasy incarnation...

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Categories: south korean, celebrity, feelings, hero, star,
Form: Free verse



A Sailor
When a South Korean big boat
Was sinking with hundreds of passengers on board
Frigid water filling up its hold
The crews with captain in fear and cowardice bold
Fled betraying the hope of all the sea farers 
There appeared a courageous woman head
With a sailor’s experience she was...

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Categories: south korean, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
A Murderous Rampage
It’s like a bloody nightmare, a ‘dark turn’ in Virginia Tech University,
where thirty-two students and teachers got killed while classes were in progress;
people panicked and pandemonium broke loose around the campus,
police everywhere came to protect them and searched for the gunman.

This young fellow who’s identified...

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Categories: south korean, sad,
Form: Narrative
Memorial Days
The local girls are Asian, South Korean, Japanese,
Chinese, Vietnamese.
A few runaway Muslim chicks.
War is a man-shaped demon.

War is booze and guns, fistfights,
Humvees and frying, flying limbs.
What's a young man to do?
He does it, then lives to die later.

Madam Butterfly has a missile launcher.
Flower-drum songs and...

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Categories: south korean, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Dog
Have all you can eat.
Get it while it's hot
South Korean Dog meat.
With mustard sauce.
Some claim it's sweet.
Others say it's not
Slather on the cheese.
Before they're all gone....

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Categories: south korean, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Bleeding Hearts
Flowers poured as teardrops fell 
The sorrow flowed out like well 
On the streets where poor souls were slain 
Bleeding hearts endure the pain 

In commemoration of the South Korean stampede and the sympathy that gave birth to one of my greatest poems...

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Categories: south korean, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry