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Best South Korean Poems

Below are the all-time best South Korean poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of south korean poems written by PoetrySoup members


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...

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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Categories: south korean, life, war, music, music,
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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Categories: south korean, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things