Poetry from Mind

 

 English Summary

 

This poem portrays students creating traditional East Asian ink-and-wash paintings. Through careful observation, delicate brushwork, and patient dedication, they gradually transform a blank sheet of paper into a living work of art. The poem celebrates not only the beauty of ink and color but also the concentration, sincerity, and quiet joy found in the creative process.

 

[수묵담채화]

 

🌿 English Summary

Compassionate Eyes is a reflective poem inspired by the gentle compassion of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva. Through a warm smile and a serene gaze, the poem portrays a presence that embraces suffering, shares in human pain, and offers peace to all beings. It concludes with a heartfelt prayer of gratitude toward the boundless love reflected in compassionate eyes.

  

  

🌎 Summary (for English Readers)

 

This poem reflects on how a seemingly beautiful but cold heart gradually reveals its chill as we draw closer.

Rather than blaming the other’s coldness, the speaker turns inward, realizing that his own warmth was not strong enough to melt the ice.

The poem ends beside a small campfire, symbolizing quiet healing and the beginning of inner thaw.

 

[눈밭 위의 모닥불]

 

Summary (for English Readers)

This poem reflects on what it truly means to live.

Through quiet repetition, it portrays life not as dramatic achievement, but as a steady process of observing time, witnessing change within oneself, and moving step by step toward an unseen yet meaningful purpose.

In this poem, living becomes an act of awareness — a quiet and gentle movement toward one’s own reason for being.

 

 [이른 아침 풍경]

  

Summary (for English Readers)

This poem reflects on how longing quietly returns in ordinary life.

Through repeated moments of remembering, traveling, and observing the sky, the speaker traces how missing someone deepens—from thought to memory, and finally to emotion—until it finally appears as silent tears and a remembered smile.

The poem captures longing not as a dramatic event, but as a gentle, recurring presence woven into daily life.

 

[저녁 하늘]