Best Seoul Poems

SON OF SEOUL


		Child presses sweet head to her,
		While mother holds fast to him
		Man busses forehead, soft lips tight
		‘Gainst acorn-colored skin.
		
		From ashes G.I. soldiers rose
		To souls of Seoul set free.
		Much taller than the rest, one stood
		‘Bove war-torched Calvary.
		
		And drifting now to streets of home
		And bird-song tones...

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Gommy Sol went to Seoul to heal the soul 
Found a girl with a curl while on a stroll 
He praised her lock 
And touched her frock 
And she gave him a half-eaten cream roll...

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Your eyes tell me a story,
A story With you,
With you a story so pure,

Name a wish by wishing on a star, 
A wish,like a first love story,
A love story so far away like Seoul,

Seoul,the place we met,two lonely hearts,
Closer with each other,we took an interlude-dive,
A...

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I listened to Choi’s story and I wondered
What kind of people allow a five-year-old
to live on the street by himself, sleeping in bathrooms?
Were these people too preoccupied to care?

His humble unassuming, shy ways 
Were in contrast to every neglected five-year-old I have met.
They are usually...

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