A thousand years past since I touched you,
The impossibility of two Souls meeting in this place,
Returning from the past,

Looking at a princess painted on a museum wall,
Memories rushing in,

You! Standing here too,

To continue our lives,
Separated by time,

Hand in hand we dance,
What mystery is this?

My life is incredible,
Because of you.

How can I capture your heart?
After waiting so long,
Locked in love, as the tides of time carried our Souls.

Many possible destinies, fate scatters,
Like cherry blossoms in a spring breeze.
You and I finally falling to earth in this corner of time.

Spending our lives together,
Never separated by death,

Rings of diamonds and gold,
Making promises, that will last an eternity,
I'll love and cherish your Soul in this life and the next,

Loving you was destined to be.

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Give me chocolate Tiffany!

I was sick and tired of everything,
When I called you last night from my dreams.
All I do is wash and polish and play with kitty,
Wishing! that, I could experience true love again.

Gimme! Gimme! Give me chocolate!
Won't somebody help me live happily ever after!
Gimme! Gimme! Give me chocolate!
I really want to live happily ever after!

Tiffany, I was defeated, you won the war.
Tiffany, promise to love me forever more.
Tiffany, I couldn't escape if I wanted to.
Tiffany, knowing my fate is to be with you.
Wow-wow-wow-wow-wow Tiffany!
Finally! Facing Tiffany and fainting!

You are the dancing gisaeng, here in my dreams.
Dancing gisaeng, feel the beat of the drum.
You can live happily ever after; 
You can live happily ever after, having the time of your life.

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! chocolate,
Won't somebody help me live happily ever after, Tiffany?

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Holding on to you so tight, a dream,
Unable to part with love,
My sadness knows no end,

I gaze at the lonely road ahead,
All I can see is,
Walking the path of life without love,

My grief never ends,
Lonely winter winds blow cold,

A biting dream,
Dreaming of a home,
A hundred lifetimes ago,

Missing you,
Standing on southern shores,
Of a Miracle seven thousand miles away,

To when, will I hold you,
When will I touch your Earth, below my feet?

Missing Cherry Blossom Spring,
Four thousand years passed,

My spirit yearns for home,
Knowing of your accomplishments,

Your fighting worries my heart,

Always take care,
My awesome Korea,

As if you are walking on,
A pond of thin ice,

Then you will become United,  Once again,
Peace and love will grow for eternity...

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My love for you will never disappear,
As long as the moon hangs in the night sky,

Each full moon,
Reminds me of you,

Dancing on a white sandy beach,
Beneath, the shining spring moon,

With your shiny black hair,
Brushed by a warm ocean breeze,

An Angel in white,
Trying to catch each wave,
With your bare feet,

In this mortal world,
You're the Angel I've waited for a thousand years,
To see dancing in the moonlight.


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On a certain day,

Looking East,
I See the sunrise,

Clouds, like beautiful ballerinas dance across the sky,
Wishing a happy day,

I hear dogs barking,
Roosters crowing,

Shower, hairspray
Afraid to look in the mirror,

Coffee bitters on my breath,
Toast and strawberry jam for breakfast,

Did I forget something?
Where did I put that phone?

Not enough time in the day,
Time flies like a jet plane,

Please, no traffic jam today,
I want to be alone,

Ok! Let's do this.

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Sometimes in our lives,
We meet another Soul,

Who brings us dreams of our future,
Who brings us memories from our past,

Our lives that will be,
Our lives that once were,

Not in our lives of today,
Because. Your love belongs to another,
In this time and place.

How can I forget our dreams?
How can I forget our memories from the past?

How can I forget you?
How can I let you go?


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You have what I want;
You live across an ocean,

Why am I standing alone in this place?
When I could have what I want;

I want to live,
I want to love,
I want to be looking at you,
With no space between us,

I want to be part of your world,

But you are only a dream
Of what I want,
Sent thousands of miles far from the East.

Something I want, but will never have.

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You and I,
Traveling through endless time,
Holding on tight, to the keys of our hearts,

It seems only yesterday,
I made a vow,
To love an Angel in white,

I remember your smile, as bright as the sunshine,
When I can't sleep at night,
No matter how hard I try,

My tears won't stop,
I miss you so much,

I want to hold you today,
Because I love your beautiful memory,

After all these years,
My tears miss you so much,

Too many years have past by,
Since I held an Angel in white,
It's unfair,

Every night I dream of you,
My wife,
I will love you more than,
Anyone I meet in my life,

God parted me with you,
So very long ago,

My heart still longs for you,
I want to see you,
Before you vanish from my memories,

Waiting for you is pointless,
How can I be with you again my wife?

I feel like ending this lonely life,
Ending this pain,
Will only send me to another Hell!

Sending me away from you,
Where your love will disappear,

Suddenly I wake from a dream,
To face the day,
And the reality of life,

I need to hold on to your love,

The more I think of you,
The tears won't stop,

I will never forget you,
I love you more than life,

Eve! says stay strong,
The sunshine always comes,

Close your eyes,
I will always see you in white,
My everlasting love.

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Ah, life!

Rise calmly like a morning sky,

Life is a new morning,
Wave calmly like a clear moon, In the morning sky,
Misty dark fog grows like cold mountains in the distance,
The mist rises on a dark morning,

Never command the time,
On a morning's journey,
Life is a morning breeze,
Where is the bright sunshine?

Ah, endurance!
Walking to the West,
Viewing misty, warm trees.
Why does the mist endure?

Moon is floating!
Lonely Luna,
Wishing a good day,
Falling asleep, under the covers of the western sky.


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It seems forever I found myself loving (loving) a dream,
Been dreaming about you a lot (a lot)
And up in my head I'm your Angel, my dear Angel,
But that's one thing I hope you already know.

You're sweet, sweet like chocolate,

You turn my head when I fly through space and  time, to find you,
Please don't  cover up your Soul from me,
Being the way that you are is enough. The beautiful you. Shining bright!

Princess, you light up my life, like no one else will ever do,
The way that you fly through space and time to me every night,
Gets me overwhelmed.

I want to hold you in my arms in the daylight,
In this time.

Will you grant my wish?
To let me hold you!
To let me love you!

You make my heart run fast,
You make my heart want to kiss you,

How can I possibly find you?

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I look through your eyes, to find your Soul,

I see twinkling bright lights,
Like stars floating in night skies,

Looking at you standing in front of me,
I see reflections of blooming cherry blossoms in the spring,

Loving you is an impossible thing.
Loving you is as unreachable
As touching the stars in the night sky,

Yet!

You are the reason I am alive,
The reason I wake every morning and feel alive,

I will wait for you.

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Like tossing a pebble into a pond,  
My long ago memories reflected slowly,
In each ripple of sunshine,

A Fresh breeze whispering lovely songs to me,
From times long past,

Every misty morning sunrise brings hazy memories;
Memories that traveled from a distant time and place,

With eyes wide shut, I dream of times long ago,
Thoughts of today's sadness and yesterday's happiness,

Seasons' change, the fragrance of kimchi and coffee remain,

Waiting some day for the sun from my past to warm my Soul,

It's just like, daydreams of your first lover,

I'm waiting to touch you again,
That we can make new happy memories; Memories that will last for eternity. 


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Alone in a secret place,
Looking through yellow dust over a mournful sea of Souls,
Strange pinks and yellows I see rising. Is this spring?

So high a place,
Way beyond a dream,
A mountain top,

A great city below,
Millions of fluorescent moons,
Traveling through space and time,
Beneath is my Seoul,

You pull tears from my heart,
Such incredible beauty,
Such wonderful music,

Such hidden pain and sadness haunt my Seoul below.

Alone in a secret place,
Standing shouting no!



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A bright night, the moon is full,
Looking at you; an Angel standing next to me.
Seeing our bright-dreams, reflected in your dark-eyes,

Your smile bringing hope into my life,

Dreaming of our days to come,
Days as bright as the morning sun.
Days as dark as storm clouds with love always chasing away the rain.

Standing here, holding on tight  to each other's Souls,
Our love overcoming all,
Feeling the winds of  fate, pushing us closer,

No power in the universe will ever separate our Souls,
We will always be forever one,
Love.

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See the kissing Prince,
True love at first glance.
A queen so bright, she shines like the sunshine.

Kneeling before his lover,
Under a dark starry cover.
Holding a thorny red-rose, near his beating heart, a gift like no other,

Please marry me.

She is but a Queen; not looking for diamonds or gold,
She is a beautiful spirit; only wishing for true love,
Admired by all, yet alone, longing for love,

Her heart belongs to,
Only one man, Her lover holding a rose with tears in his hand,
She needs no excuses; true love at first glance,

She's not alone anymore,
As hope, is born,
To a barren land.

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Sarah, you live in my heart!
Your spirit, keeps me standing,
You are the taste of sweet chocolate on my lips,

Your face so soft, and smooth like satin sheets.
Soft, beautiful, suntan skin glowing, like a warm campfire on the beach,
Keeps my heart beating with passion.

Looking into your hazel eyes at sunset,
Taking hold of your soft hand,
Dancing in ocean waves,

Waves of love tickling our toes.
Looking into your eyes,
Seeing, a fiery red Soul filled with excitement!

So mysterious,
So beautiful,
Wanting our Souls to come together,

Let's become one, my dearest Sarah, love.


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On a cold winter's morning,
Watching, Luna, Spica, and Jupiter,
Dance through the Heavens.

Recalling, thoughts of you.

Saying hello to distant memories,
Since then,
It has been dreams of centuries past.

I miss you very much.

I want to see you,
I want to take your hand,
I want to hold your Soul in my arms once again,
I want to feel your passion next to me while we dream.

Closing my eyes, wishing upon dancing stars.
To stand beside you once again.

No matter how much I wish and dream,
Of you and me together.
I know love can not be.

I closed the door on love,
A long time ago,
While whispering, I love you.

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In the short time,
We spent together living our young lives,
You left me with a thousand years of memories.

Never ending words to write.

We spent a year, every day, waking to our dreams,
Making dreams of love.
Making memories, we'll always have.

Afraid the memories would fade away,
I spend days looking to Heaven,
Talking to you, writing poetry to you.

I have been unable to let you go.

In my old life,
I count the memories,
I count the days until,
I will hold your Soul in my arms,
In Heaven once again.

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I only want to find you,
To kiss your red lips!

If you only could know,
How much my heart misses you!

Maybe you are dreaming about me too?

How can I tell you,
You are my dream, my only love?

Why do we choose,
To search for an impossible love?

Why do I love a beautiful dream?

The loneliness in my heart is the reason,
In our world,
In our Universe,
I will never give up searching for you.

Are you looking for me too?

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Dreaming,

You and I on a park bench,
White clouds floating by in a high blue sky,
Magically turning into hearts, doves and puppy dogs,

Looking into a Universe of memories,

What's next my dream?
Heaven or earth?

Softly crying teardrops, filling an Eastern sea,
You're my everlasting love,

What's next my eternal love?
Sing to me, making memories of love,

My everlasting dream...


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Loving you, is as unreachable, as traveling,

Back to the past one hundred years,

Standing here alone,
I see a painting of a glamorous,
Woman, in a white dress,

Singing on a brightly lit stage, under a,
Rainstorm of white and red,
Roses,

I am wondering what you were thinking,

That day?

That day, one hundred years in the past,
The world fell in love with a beautiful Angel

And her voice?

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Hundreds of times I've told you,
My impossible dream.

I've written thousands of words, to you.
How else can I show you,
There is no doubt I love you?

Again and again, I look to Heaven,
Asking you, to hear my words?
Words looking for an answer?

What else can I do,
To show how much I need you?
Does your heart hear me?

Why do you come to me,
Only in my dreams?
I look for you in daylight scenes.

I try so hard every day,
To find you,
To show you how much I love you,

But you never hear my words.

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It's time for our long sleep my love,
Unwilling to let you go alone,

When I fell in love with your Soul, long ago,
You changed my life on that day,
The day I pledged to have and to hold an angel's Soul forever.

Am I wrong wishing to sleep with you for eternity too?
I'm not willing to let you sleep forever alone.

I only know one thing.

I love you and don't have the strength to live without you,
Love, please take me with you to Heaven's home.

Closing my eyes, I want you to be the last dream I see,
Falling asleep for eternity.

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Move your hands,
Do not hide your aspect from my eyes,
Let me see your face,

Such incredible beauty I see in your eyes,
Such love, I feel for you,
Alone with you in this secret place,

Do not mask your beauty by,
Covering my eyes with sorrow,

Remove your cloak,
So I can see your charm,

So much respect I have for you,
Your beauty is intoxicating,

Do not look down in sadness,
Such beauty should not cry tears,

Remove your mask of sorrow,
And look at me,

So that, I can see your charming Soul.

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I look at you,
Through the veil of time,

Looking for you too,
Free my Lost Soul,

Your face is hidden now,
In lost memories,
And in dreams.

Love is only possible,
With a life with you;
In a time long ago,
In a distant place, half a world away.

You have taken hold of my heart,
I watch you playing, under the cherry blossom trees,
I look at you blooming into a beautiful woman,

A princess becoming a queen,
In the bright pink Seoul sunlight.


Loving you my dream is an impossible thing,
I will never embrace you,
My lonely eyes,
Only see you at midnight.

A dream that leads only to heartbreak,

At dawn every day.

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Moonlight in front of my eyes,
An empty bed waits for me to blow out the candles,

My nights are always the same,
My heart aches, missing you,
My love can not be shared,

My wife, living alone without you,
Sleeping in a lonely bed,

Dreams of sleeping under warm blankets,
Moonbeams caressing your lips,
Moonbeams guiding us through our dreams,

Missing you while laying in this cold bed alone,
Missing watching you breathe; laying next to me,
Missing seeing you at sunrise,

I miss you; I miss you, my love.

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Night sky,
Where there is no ending,
No ending too, lost and lonely dreams.

Feelings, of surprise,
When I saw your spirit smile,
The moon and stars, falling into a misty sea.

Morning comes,
Please don't leave me,
Don't leave me again.

Why is it?
I dream of your bright smile,
While looking up at,
The never ending night sky.

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Dreaming, dreaming of you every night.
You are the love, and beauty that brightens my life,
That I write of in reality,

You inspire me, to write words of love, beauty, and hope.
I would die,
If you stopped coming to me in dreams.

If the only reality is,
To touch you, my sweet fantasy,
Is in nightly dreams, let it be so!

Let me love you, love you forever in dreams.

You are my vision of beauty, my inspiration, my love.
And at dawn, every day,

I pray!

Fate will build a bridge,
That will allow our Souls to cross the great distance,
Between dreams and reality,

So that I may feel your warm breath upon my neck,
As you whisper,  
Welcome to my world my fantasy, my dream.

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Cherishing Heaven, where our Souls first embraced.
That moment I touched you,
I knew love guided me to you.

My adorable Angel,
Dreaming of us dancing in the moonlight,

I vow to hold on to you forever,
My adorable princess,
My sweet pleasure,

You are my hope,
The sweet love in my heart,

When I look at you,
I see only you and me,
Living in a world of forever love,

You're so special.
With your great kindness and patience.

When we cuddle close, when our hearts beat together as one,
And our lips taste of sweet love and bliss,
I make a wish.

My sweet desire,
Please, be my love forever and ever!

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Cannons  echoing in the west,
Birds returning to their nests,
Oranges, reds and yellows, painting a watercolor sky.

Bright flashes beaming, memories of the past,

Thumping rooftop rain,
Raindrops are rolling.
Into rooftop drains,

A lullaby, of falling tears,
Singing me to sleep,
To dream a lonely sunset dream.

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Hello, my dear dream,
Happy to see you in the bright morning sunlight,
Remembering, a passionate; kiss.

A sensual embrace a thousand years past,
The two of us bathing in a misty stream,
Under a ghostly moon.

Memories of a place where princesses and kings lived,

With wishful dreams, of golden sunsets,
Our Souls are holding each other in Heaven.
Until the gift of life comes again.

Living in the forest of nature,
Loving, making, new life,
Painting a new future;

With a brush of passionate words,
Painting songs and love poems,
Of a place and time, we can only dream.

Back then we just didn't know,
That we would ever meet again,
A thousand years hence.

My dear love,
Good to see you in the daytime.

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Across a great river,
My heart and my mind live,

In a dream my home country vaguely familiar,
Living in a cold, wet straw covered house,

An empty boat floating on the river,
Thinking of you,

Many times remembering our youth,
Many dreams of you and me floating in the river's mist,

Unable to forget you,
Unable to step into an empty boat without you,

Looking Far to the East,
Hoping my memory,
Will rise in your dreams someday too.

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2017

My dear Princess Deokman!
It's now 2017,

It's been more than 1,370 years,
Since my Spirit has set foot in Silla,

The place I was born,
The place I died, saving a life,
The place I want to return,

My memories of you have traveled through the centuries,
Your face reminds me of a witty Silla Queen,
With a smile as bright as the Dawn,
Together, we are like rice cakes and hot pepper sauce,

Oh darling Princess,
My kind-hearted Queen,
My witty young love,
The perfect companion to my Lonely Soul.

Sharon's Roses are red,
Skies are blue,
I like the waves of an Eastern sea,
But not as much as I love walking on the beach,
And singing with you!

Oh! Darling Princess,
Your hands are like beautiful cherry blossoms on a spring day,
You're the greatest Queen ever to walk Silla.

Your witty laughing face,
Your loving Soul,
Your beautiful hands,
I see you as a great Queen,

How could I look at another when your kindhearted love is so strong?

Even today,
After all, these centuries have passed,
I still love you my Princess Deokman!

I'd die for you again today.

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Knock on the door.
Who is it? I ask.
Special delivery!

I open the door.
I'm handed aa envelope postmarked Seoul Korea.
Sign here, please.

I walk over to the desk and open the envelope.
Inside the envelope is a letter along with a round trip plane ticket to Seoul Korea.

The letter says, "Congratulations you are the grand prize winner of "Why Korea is a Beautiful Country?" contest. Thank you for submitting several of your poems to us. Now get ready to take some pictures of your dream.

A month later April 1st

I find myself boarding the plane flight to Korea.
We take off, and I decide to try and sleep for the entire flight.

But I'm woken up by people screaming. Then hear a voice over the loudspeaker saying, "Put your life vest on, fasten your seat belts."
The flight attendants were running down the aisles yelling.

I see a bright flash as bright as a noon sun,

Waking up on a sandy white beach,
To the sound of ocean waves.
Feeling ocean waves at my feet trying to pull me back into the sea.

Standing up wiping the sand off my pants.
Looking around,
I see an empty beach, a deep blue ocean, trees and mountains.

Seabirds flying high as if searching for something,

Suddenly I hear yelling in a strange language from behind me. Turning around, I see bizarre looking people riding horses ******* towards me with swords raised screaming what sounded like "Mooreup Ggul-eo! Mooreup Ggul-eo!  I tried to run but was grabbed by one of them and pushed to the ground. Because of being scared of having my head cut off. I didn't say a word or move a muscle.  

Next I was bound, gagged and tied to a horse with a rope.

The men mounted their horses. They began moving down the beach while dragging me behind the last horse.

After what seemed like many hours of walking and with the sun setting we reached a grotto surrounded by cherry blossoms, roses and pine trees. Stunning like something from a fairytale.

One of the men removed the gag and untied me.
He grabbed me by the arm yelling something at me that I couldn't understand while pointing at and pushing me into a small cave.
When I turned to look around, I noticed the rest of the group were all bowing, and some even seemed to be crying. I was grabbed again turned around and tossed into the cave.

Then I hear a sound like a sad young woman crying.
I say, "Hello." No answer.

I continue walking toward the crying in this cave as dark as moonless night. When I come to an open chamber as bright as the midnight sun.
I'm shocked to see a beautiful Goddess tied to a throne by her wrists and neck.

I quickly begin to untie her. I try to speak to her. But neither of us can understand the other. But I remembered the most important word in the Korean language and say,  "saranghamnida" She stops crying looks directly at me and says, "jagiya saranghae."

After I released her from the prison of, her thrown. She jumped up
and put her arms around me and with her head against my chest listening to my heart. She kept hugging me. She wouldn't let go of me.

She takes my hand pulls me slowly towards the cave opening.
I tried to stop her because of the people waiting outside guarding the cave but insisted she seemed triumphant and not afraid.

As we stepped out of the cave to a beautiful red-orange sunset.
She bows to me, and I return the bow and we both bow to the people guarding the cave. All of a sudden, the crowd cheers yelling Dongroe! Dongroe!...

I fell in love with the incredible Goddess Yuhwa. Last night I dreamed that she was bathing in my steamy cup of tea. That took the chill in my Soul away.

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Mooreup Ggul-eo! = On your knees!
saranghamnida The Most formal way to say I love you.

jagiya saranghae = Darling, I love you.

Dongroe  A ceremony in which the king and queen bow to each other, share wine and food, and have their first night together.

In the warm morning sun,
Sitting on a bench,
Watching ripples of sunshine in the pond,

Echoing thoughts,
From summer’s past,
In reflecting ripples,

Autumn leaves falling,
Autumn leaves floating on ripples,

Says cold days are coming soon,

Rose peddles have disappeared,
Shades of red, yellow, purple, orange, and blue, blanket the roads,

Says cold days are almost here,

Sitting on a bench alone,
Seeing only my reflection in the ripples,

Says that cold days are already here.

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