Long Koreans Poems

I knew that  I had to go somewhere but I did not know where 
I knew I had to go somewhere that was not  very far from here
So I  put on my...

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Pardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...

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The white race has a point
But that doesn't mean
They should treat us improper
The white race has a point
Nature is repeating it over and over
White snow, white moon
white Jesus, white angels
white robes, white clouds
White pedestrian crossing
White...

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I can feel this thread running all over me, it’s like I am connected to the deep blue sea and the current is pulling me into the deep dragging me towards an unplanned destiny; the...

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Vietnam in '68
By Franklin Price
08/10/2020

January '68, I arrived at Cam Rahn Bay
Found out this place, in Vietnam, was the best place I could play
Ground bound, in the Air Force, and living on the beach,
On a...

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Ready...Aim...Fire!

In light of tension twixt
brinkmanship rumbling one
East Asian Tiger
country otherwise known as
"the land of morning calm,"
yours truly t'will invite 
"freedom foo fighters"
tubby regaling with a jubilant aire
total mortal Kombat 
levels threat of human warhead
bomb dubbed...

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O My beloved Lord Jesus,
You mean everything to me
From sea to shining sea,
To my beloved homeland,
that waves the Star spangled
Banner, our American flag,
Sometimes it's called 'Old Glory!'

And My Lord, I pray it's already
Not too late,...

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It all began in Berkeley, California 
In the springtime of 1974
One fateful afternoon 
I was sleeping in my high school Physics class. 

I looked up and saw a tall,
beautiful Asian woman 
standing there looking at...

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A young woman fled North Korea into the United States of America.
All in order to attend one of our east coastal university. She told the
700 Club that what they were teaching their students! 

"Was even...

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We're in the midst of trump times and 
We need to understand 
That that individual in the White House 
Is not a righteous man 
He's all about division, discord 
And disarray 
And when a domestic...

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It was said by pilgrim sons next to the Boston Harbor,
That to take tax without redress was action of dishonor.
And so a team of farmers went and built themselves an army,
To drive the redcoats off...

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(for those in Kwangju: May 18, 1980)*
after Dante

Taking this peach within the mouth, the tongue 
hovers around its sunset skin like a lover
and its Sappho sweet bite is heaven. A song

of honeysuckled rivers is like...

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Oh please for the sake (and sock e) 
of brethren deemed friendly, i be
see-ch ye with genuine humility 
to desist launching nuclear missiles. 
This American bloke put his lock, 
stock and barrel of gunmetal faith...

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the year that was

January 

The world watches in amazement
Longest shut down in history
Watching it all in Korea
contemplating escaping the cold winter

February 

World watches as North Korea and the US
Walking back from the brink of war
escaping...

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Signs
everywhere in Asia
you see strange variations
of English
Japlish, Konglish, Singlish

the street signs in Okinawa
are all in Chinese, Japanese, English and Koreans
the bus and train announcements as well

Hard to get lost 
even when you want to

but the...

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Thank You For Your Service

“Thank you for your service."
How many times have I heard that.
Do they know or understand?
Do they really care?

I fought at Bloody Antietam,
Shiloh, Gettysburg and Franklin.
Blue and gray, makes no difference.
Casualties measured...

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Hang Over Reflections


Last night a Korean friend from Virginia came for a two week visit He brought with him a 30-year Bottle of Ballentine whiskey.  Of course, we must drink it and then we...

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Villanelle: Alright guys: Heave and Ho! And let it go

(Confinement to one’s home though fines during « outings" add to revenue, private companies take orders from far-flung lands for masks, gloves and ventilators and protective...

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April 3—Look at the sky!

One day the world woke up
To the impending end 
As a new asteroid. 

Quickly dubbed 
The doomsday asteroid
Headed to Earth.

Everyone looked up
At the doomsday asteroid
As the world scrambled
To send space missiles...

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Insomnia Blues Writing Com 

O Dark hundred hours 

04 a.m.

You got the insomnia blues
Nothing works
You can’t sleep
You stare at the ceiling.

Your mind plays an endless tape
Of gloom, and doom
worries and fears
all night long.

the latest dark
...

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Korean Blues Crown of Sonnets
I have been dealing? with Things Korean
?for almost 40 years now 
dealing ?with a once exotic land?
now my second homeland
?first came to Korea?
In the Peace Corps in Korea
I ?went to Korea...

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Each summer brings festivity 
To the Emerald City by the sea,
A Torchlight Parade in diversity
Of folks who live in harmony.

The people line the streets and cheer 
As the Chinese dragons writhe and rear
Their heads from...

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Ji Chang Wook
I am shook
You appear
Each place I look

Drama space
Handsome face
Acting hero
Hanguk ace*

In Milan
Every fan
Sighs at sight
Of such a man!

Autograph
Heart in half*
Hands combine
A smile or laugh

You're so fine
Clothes sublime
Girls all think
"I'll make him mine!"

"Healer" vibe*
Chang...

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Hate,
You came to me
When I was a child

I don’t want you to
Be near me
Ever again


It was during WW2
Japan ruled
Koreans obeyed

One day 
Mother came home
With tears in her eyes
Her voice filled with bitterness

A Japanese soldier kicker...

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Like retired folk for Florida, the British for their tea,
Like China is for foreign debts, trash dumpers for the sea...
Like Russians are for alcohol, and Ethiopia'd be for rain,
Like Catholic priests for altar boys, like...

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