Long Seoul Poems

From the window of my chic city office, lost in thought, I gaze out.
The pedestrians scurry like frenzied ants below, caught up in their bustling state of holiday insanity.
In his haste to cross the street...

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April 29— Looking Out My Window 

published as part of Tiferet Journals' 2018 Poem-a-thon  see my poetry blog https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com for these and other poems

Looking out my window 
In Incheon 
What did I see 
The...

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Because of you, I'm in a Seattle kind of mood
When I look out my window 

And see the rain drops gently falling all around
And I feel that special Seattle kind of chill

In my bones 
I...

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It was an unusual trip that was planned,
stranger still that my Mother-in-law was the reason.
A wonderful woman who was liked by all who knew her,
kind, gentle, hard working, and grateful for the gift 
of reaching...

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Looking Out My Window

Looking out my window 
In Incheon 
What did I see 
The neighboring apartment buildings 
Obscured by the April rains 

And yellow dust of early Spring 
And in the distant the mountains 
Aflame...

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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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Sam Adams Goes Down the Rabbit Hole, NaNoPoMo Prompt

Sam Adams was having a bad night
He often would fall into a deep trouble sleep
Where his mind would go down deep

Into the proverbial rabbit holes
Exploring one dark...

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David Wier OBE started out with a crowd of only five, 
Watching him race in the fast track events very alive,
In the swift wheelchair races, as he is spinally injured, 
From his birth, and could...

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The year was nineteen-forty eight
Was in the month of September,
It was, what the Russians did
That shall always be remembered,

A communist government 
To place was the chore,
Now, has come to pass
The heightening clod war,

North Korea, so...

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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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Athens, quite a place, so full of mythology
Buenos Aires, in Argentina, a place I'd love to see

Canberra, is just antipodean class
Dublin, a pint of Guinness in a glass

Edinburgh, the capital of the Scots
Freetown, a city,...

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How do I feel. ¿?
So much noise from outside 
Blocking every sign of Eternal on every side 
My head full ,my mind drowning right in these :
so much noise, my eyes cringes, my ears buzzing...

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Living below the low of slow roll
dyeing above the bow in fast sail
failNG front the sow is last paul
baylin flaps the lap si four call
wishin blips the cap tu tres papi
living clips the mam or...

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How the police acted was a terrible thing 
to that unsuspecting citizen named Rodney King.
What they did on that video was definitely not right.
I don’t blame you for getting up to fight.
This incident has caused...

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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...

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When Jack was six he took up judo, 
‘Cos he lived on an RAF base, NI, 
Where only ballet and judo existed, 
For kids with much energy to hand.  

His mum sent him to...

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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...

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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...

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Incheon 2016

I live in Incheon 
Part of the 3 million people who live here
Mostly Koreans
90,000 foreigners though live here too

My apartment is next to a park
And I walk almost daily in the mountains
Loosing myself in...

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Incheon 2016

I live in Incheon 
Part of the 3 million people who live here
Mostly Koreans
90,000 foreigners though live here too

My apartment is next to a park
And I walk almost daily in the mountains
Loosing myself in...

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Jeanette struck gold at the Worlds and Euros, 
The non-Paralympic Worlds and Euros, that is, 
In the sport of canoeing and she has portfolios, 
In the Paralympic world as a swimmer, the biz. 

She’s won...

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That flowers fall

Like autumn comes and leaves begin to blush
Like rains confess the wild’s restraining souls
Screams the rowdy youth of such fragile rush
Roars our untamed minds from London to Seoul

Speak love, speak hate and He...

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The feel of a blanket sends chills,
Thru my body as if,
I am walking over their grave.
I heard the sound,
From the background.
It grabbed my soul and,
It stopped me cold.
In that split second,
It sends fear throughout your...

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Chris was born on 9th July in 1993,
And he fights every day in training, 
At the British Judo Centre in Walsall, 
A Centre of Excellence, producing. 

He lost his job as a car mechanic,
Through his...

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Four Seasons of Watermill 

Watermill, Watermill, Watermill
At the entrance of Seoul National University
A watermill that goes back to alone

In the spirit of spring earth
Forcefully turn the watermill

In the summer heat and rainy season
Don't get tired...

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