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Hyunjin Ryoo Poem
My Lord is my reliance, sole
He claimed a body that a mother scorned
His termoil testifies me whole
His spirit has me not forlorn
Yet satan deigns to me instruct
My every path must he obstruct
With a ruthless tongue
He devices wrong
And counts upon my every fault
Every virtue to assult
And so I seek my death with zeal
My death like hidden goods I seek
A broken temple bears my sovereign's seal
Son of David mild and meek.
Jesus heal me who am weak.
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My prayers I offer, Lord
They are like incenses brimming heavenly casks
Might is in your words
Aided, I rivers ford
Gratify us children as we ask
A long diseased child
A mother's arms released me at your hands
Garments long defiled
That mortal men reviled
Your arms enclosed, a beautious garland
An undeserved prize
My tattered garments smother in light
Uncompensated cries
That world did but despised
You did not deem so little in your sight
For yours I am by right.
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Midst a banquet as life defined
Where careless pleasures are consumed
And at the table children dine
Midst a banquet as life defined
Where steps in muted servitude
Rush to aid a mirth refined
A famished cur desires crumbs!
And midst a banquet, as life defined
I grin, complacent, rendered dumb!
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Hyunjin Ryoo Poem
A voice perfection has conceived
Where once a fledgling had perceived
Divine an ingenuity
I now have found humanity
Yet pulses through Great Britain's veins
Your lasting boyish innocence
All I've struggled to obtain
A child's heart was its penitence
Of old perceiver, you are now portrayed
By cruder hands. Oh untainted mind!
Your rhyme and verse relentless time has weighed
Yet found have I a heart behind.
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Hyunjin Ryoo Poem
In the garbage lilies may bloom
Yet in its odor will always loom
Faint traces of its abused past
Wounds may fade but traces last
Had heaven pity on this fool
And struck her down dead where she lay
That she did not see another day
Mourned in loss and wasted away
If I tore out these eyes of mine
And blinded to the sight divine
That caught my eyes, I will not sin
By yearning love not mine to keep
When I first tasted love’s venom
How enflamed passions burnt anew
Love pulsed through my soul, a fiery hue
Yet overcomes now solemn Fate,
I am innocent no more.
I will ne’er be what I was before
I depart now, wretched heart
From the remainders of my waste
In hopes that in my death regain
What love I sought and sought in vain
Your lady fair sure owns your heart
Yet your remorse mine for evermore
In the shadows I will meet thee
In your darkest hours to greet thee
Midst deadly silence, fancies free me
Whisper, but my name, you’ll see me…
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Hyunjin Ryoo Poem
The Test
A tortured faltering shell I clutch
The heart of radiant night to tread
By vain fingertips untouched
Rare is dark's disheveled head
The pungent stench of sweet decay
Night succumbs with a bitter taste
Must such a delicacy waste?
Or else a ravished heart indulge?
A collar stiff and buttons firm!
As the river laughes in its drunken fits
To all dreams, shameless, boast confirmed!
How often have I lain within
With dust's affinity to dust!
Merciful Lord, my eternal fate
Pray seal from insistent beckoning rust!
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A celestial mother's belly grows
Her precious burden shows
Yet of the youth to leave her care
She is most unaware
He vanquished evil, death defied
Healed diseases, conquered lies
To, in his direst moment call;
"It is done"
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Hyunjin Ryoo Poem
A sinner's cross I climb
In derision planted, dry
His tracks undried yet lingers clean
I drench in remorse serene
Vinegar I lap
Vinegar his lips declined
In a corner lonley life expelled
I shall, into the host, incline
Midst merciless foreign eyes
A body dishonored falls
Harsh, the sentence to my guilt
My Jesus, embrace this soul.
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Hyunjin Ryoo Poem
The great Caesarean splendor
And his roaring empire's reign
Fleeting things be mortal hopes
May a monument remain?
Daedalus, Ah Daedalus
Lend your feathers toward the sky
Adonai, my God on high
Faith with holy flames reward!
Strikes a stone, a stone
Iron and clay to dust subdue
To cruder substance enamoured
A mask of gold embraces sod
A silent elegy.
The Lord's kingdom shall forever reign
Amen
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Hyunjin Ryoo Poem
No plot of ground to serve a bed
Against the dark you lay your head
For expedition much abused
Contemptable in your afteruse
Defiled by Adam's selfishness
Your face unrecognizable
A mute remains of ravishment
To world unreconcilable
A dying bird with broken wings
Your fate lies with unloved things
Too weak to cry out heavenward
You close your eyes from pain!
(Be exalted Lord, who designed this bard
To refrain from all things sane)
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