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34 · Oct 2024
That is life
Yonah Jeong Oct 2024
Look around this world
do not try to see
what you don't see
they are not there

Look around this world
do not try to have
what you do not have
they are not there

Look around this world
what you do not see
do not try to see
they are not here

Look around the world
what you do not have
do not try to have
they are not here

If you don't do so
you are wasting time
you are killing time

I am sure
you don't need them always
experiment with it.
Yonah Jeong Aug 2024
I always was painful
I feared the sound
sprang out of my mind
after it passed
even though disappeared
sound and light echoes
remained me
bothered me
no matter who was in there
it doesn't matter with me
but I have a wish:
I don't want to see

This morning,
an ambulance arrived a little late
at the hospital
my friend can no longer live
with me
until the dawn comes
I could not sleep
my hate killed friend
who was a poor in it

NOW
i pray that
it arrives on time.
33 · Aug 7
807
Yonah Jeong Aug 7
807
If you don't like anyone, no one will like you.
33 · Jul 15
800
Yonah Jeong Jul 15
800
The shape of love change, love itself remains the same.
33 · Aug 2024
today years
Yonah Jeong Aug 2024
Pablo
who has been without
friends for decades
a city officer
told me
“Behind the parking lot
The tree is old and
and the leaves are causing
a nuisance to the neighborhood
we don't know when it's going to fall
we need to cut it down now"
I said, "he lives in New York"
But Pablo always saying
“Not today...not today
It has been years."
33 · Jul 5
The Voice of Siren
Yonah Jeong Jul 5
Isn't it
a cry
of in equality inequality
in justice injustice
however in love?
33 · Aug 3
Let's live like Robin
Yonah Jeong Aug 3
He flew high in the sky
saw the clouds
saw the stars
and finally descended
taking into
the world
embracing
everything of the world
and landing with
the hearty laughter of the wind
My Robin
who faces that head-on.
33 · Jun 20
Unmindful lovers
Yonah Jeong Jun 20
near, among their footsteps
soon, among their voices
a day, unlucky
flow..drink...chase
poor lights
                   point
                            quick-frozen
                  ­                          ing
since 1980518 abide with
turtle time rabbit clock
running to wedding
the way want to go
               It was swept away by the wind
               With their shouts of longing
               and yet they did not know
still they didn't know reality.
33 · Jul 25
Take a closer look
Yonah Jeong Jul 25
Don't get angry about things
that interfere with
your writing
Poetry is hidden
within them.
Yonah Jeong Aug 6
Finally
they became friends
sat on the beach
watched the waves of the sea
and talked about poetry

Neruda
spread a white towel
while the postman
just sat there
and enjoyed the beautiful moment.
33 · Jan 2
Lucky Seven
Yonah Jeong Jan 2
The heart of vacuum standing
in the middle of a sand tornado
of the desert
without an oasis

Don't be banished
pass through
never avoid or sweep away
The merciless human savages
33 · Jan 6
be careful
Yonah Jeong Jan 6
Beware of
the good deeds of the wicked

The wicked are not the ones who do evil
those who turn good into evil.
33 · Dec 2024
Winter
Yonah Jeong Dec 2024
seat of seasons
by the losers
shrinking
by drying and stepping
falls of branches
voice of winter
celebrates disappearance
of forests around the river
of the old roads
with old man's walking
climb-down
for the sprouts
through the solid ground.
33 · Dec 2024
Lupi
Yonah Jeong Dec 2024
looking
in her eyes
friendship and
and love

passing through the woods
early evening
like a Deep Wind

friendship with love
where it is
she always stays there.
33 · Jun 30
Mountain and Ocean
Yonah Jeong Jun 30
The longer stay in the mountain
the broader mind becomes
the cooler it gets cold

The longer stay before the ocean
the deeper heart becomes
the cooler it gets hot.
32 · Jan 8
He liked Chopin
Yonah Jeong Jan 8
4 years old Richard
every time he goes to kindergarten
If I play disco music
on the radio
even the kindergarten he doesn't want to go to
He gets excited and shakes his body with
"YMCA"
"Tarzan Boy"
"Rivers of Babylon"
"One-way Ticket"
and Music I listened to while
dating my wife 40 years ago
"Touch by Touch"
Then we take a brea
He goes into the kindergarten listening to Chopin "Nocturnes"
This is how Richard's music trip to and from school
A year has passed
Today the weather is so cold
lonely and quiet
I play Chopin's music from the beginning
Suddenly Richard shouting
“It is noisy!"
surprising and turning off
again Richard shouting
“It is noisy!”
hesitating in confusion
I see that the heater is on the highest setting
and turn off the heater auto
and turn up the volume of the Chopin
and Richard begins to look out the window
with deep eyes and a peaceful mind
while putting his hands and head
inside his clothes.
32 · Mar 26
At day-close the walks
Yonah Jeong Mar 26
yellow-spreading
gray-purple clouds
meet the faint smoke flowing
from the chimney
like a watercolor painting of daffodils
At dusk
a bird's wings
raise the wind
entering the gates of night
A light preparing
for dinner
paints the old windows
and comes out
comforting the withered flowers
in the garden.
32 · May 17
My love like a seed
Yonah Jeong May 17
My love
doesn't look like air
it is keeping me alive

My love
doesn't look like the wind
it is keeping me alive

My love
passes by like a flash of light
it stays by my side

My love
passes as fast as death
it stays by my side

My love
flows invisibly like a seed
it never forsakes me.
32 · Dec 2024
When Love Comes
Yonah Jeong Dec 2024
When love is coming,
world is robbed of sorrow
people's consciences clash
with each other
and shine through

When love is coming,
world cannot stand still
flames of the fight
and it quietify

When the veil of love is lifted,
day after day after day
we can hear
sounds of the world

When love is coming,
do not be afraid
nothing will be taken away
no one can take it away.
32 · Sep 2024
New York, New York 1
Yonah Jeong Sep 2024
i am watching today
people flock to New York
statue of liberty
beach bike path
metropolitan museum
skyline
wall street
charging bull
time square garden
central park
world trade building
911 memorial museum
un
natural history museum
carnegie hall
new york botanical garden
lincoln center
hudson river
joe's pub
broadway
new york public library
empire state building
chelsea market
fdr highway
brooklyn bridge
the riverside church
and
around these places
cleared out
unable to see
top attraction in New York
the invisible man
i am facing today
the divine name, homeless.
32 · Mar 19
Afternoon Thoughts
Yonah Jeong Mar 19
Tens of thousands of years old branches
unable to reach the sky and
nor love stories
Will be.
32 · Jan 7
Clock and Time
Yonah Jeong Jan 7
Time surrendered to the clock flows
Events that do not require understanding
A cruel new year
begins
In a cave safer than a prison
Apes like humans
All tilt their heads
Shooting the end of the day
Like the beginning of a day
Traitors who rise like a fountain
We don't see how to fall
And the time set to the clock
They try to catch the sun
To survive
While making the sinner righteous
And the righteous a sinner
At this very moment.......................
32 · Nov 2024
What a great day
Yonah Jeong Nov 2024
I was so hungry
I'll go to the kitchen
I took out bowl of rice
to turn on the microwave
I opened the door
I had already put in
Today
forgetting to eat dinner
I wrote a poem

How long ago?
32 · Jun 25
No Smoking
Yonah Jeong Jun 25
I breathe cigarette smoke
even though I know it's harmful
I can't escape the anxiety
I can't quit

Heat of a cigarette
burned hot
disappeared

E-cigarettes with only smoke
no flame
love these days
I'd rather first love.
32 · Dec 2024
one Sparrow
Yonah Jeong Dec 2024
a sparrow
instead of just falling
there is a reason

a single sparrow
it is just charcoal-grilled
it doesn't settle down
alcohol snack

how, a human being
just just just
fall off and get drunk?
does it serve alcohol?

torn, torn, torn
just just just
their drunkenness Appetizer ?

- toward William Carlos Williams
32 · Dec 2024
Our mask
Yonah Jeong Dec 2024
Apply the cream of false laughter
and look good to hide
face and neck, chest, torso,
hips, buttocks, thighs
soles of our feet,
to the last place we have left
blood of cruelty and malicious deceit
It flows unnoticed
torn and twisted
hiding the pain of the times
mouths speak of countless
corrupt deeds
with the cheers of rote geniuses
are buried
all this with a single mask
of lovelessness
yes, we can
souls torn apart by torture
to sing, to give life, from the mud is a task
vile of the veils,
Your unmasking
to show the parade of
your life
today, we take off our masks.
32 · Dec 2024
The Way
Yonah Jeong Dec 2024
Every road
has a destination
and my way
is just a series of
hesitations over choices.
32 · Sep 2024
First Love
Yonah Jeong Sep 2024
do not exceed, a border line, if you're possible.
Yonah Jeong Jul 18
I did
what I wanted to do
for family

My wife did
what she didn't want to do
for family.
32 · Jan 20
Untitled
Yonah Jeong Jan 20
I am
held
in that places


faith
hope
love

these things together
where i must live
laugh always.
31 · Jan 2
Twins
Yonah Jeong Jan 2
don't try to be happy
happiness is coming.
31 · Jan 19
Ship and Human being
Yonah Jeong Jan 19
Ship
when in port
safe
however
value of the ship
zero

Human being
when in no hardship
safe
however
value of Human being
zero.
31 · 1d
Changing desires
I marvel if
someone had a little love
passing through the hatred
along with selfishness.
31 · Jun 8
Needle and Thread and
Yonah Jeong Jun 8
needle is worn out
dulled
thread is worn out
disconnected
marbles decided to scatter themselves
upon the floor
opened the door and went out
into the garden
to the street
beyond the traffic light
on the clouds
flied high to the sky
as night falls
they became stars
became starlights
a little bit of love
entered the room
through the window glass.
31 · Dec 2024
Genetics and Environment
Yonah Jeong Dec 2024
he was quick to anger,
he had a loud voice,
and liked books and music alone
he was weak,
he disliked money,
and hated excessive interference.

Then he started working and marriage life
several decades have passed.

now, he quietly gets angry
only when necessary,
he enjoys cleaning buildings,
he doesn't get sick,
he accepts attention and consideration,
and writes poetry
with a broad mind and does his best.
31 · Jul 3
A light wave
Yonah Jeong Jul 3
It is a surging time
It is a dancing thread
It is a unknowing voice
It is a visible wind
It is a cloud candy
It is a lover tooth
It is a amazing future.
31 · Jan 23
Life and Jewels
Yonah Jeong Jan 23
Time
has no speed
why we feel the speed of time?

Poetry
has no sparkle
why we feel the beauty of poems?
31 · Aug 2024
From the lighthouse 1
Yonah Jeong Aug 2024
Be
surrounded by
mountains
lighthouse
stands the same place
starlight
waves
seagull family
pebbles
wet moss
low forest
stairs
sunrise and sunset
a cliff
a winding path
fish
old small ship
a lighthouse keeper
are moving
a true friend
navigator
not visible
good luck
when seen
the best luck
the light of lighthouse
different from the city lights
joy of sharing
with all beings
in the fear and loneliness of the wreck
after the storm
See.
31 · Dec 2024
interests and integrity
Yonah Jeong Dec 2024
We are interested in
beautiful things but
they are growing up
without it and
show good
beauty of all beings
include the essence of truth
that is integrity.
31 · Oct 2024
How to write a poem?
Yonah Jeong Oct 2024
The only thing more important than writing is reading
More important than reading is thinking
More important than thinking is experiencing

The experience of experiences is historical grief.

- to Han River Miracle
31 · Aug 1
October
Yonah Jeong Aug 1
The poetry is sands, the words are snows
   The writing papers are glad to meet
The books are sold by money
   It is sweat & blood of tears

The coins are reading poems
   And we who have hot heart
Half life to know our jewels
   That is a long october in December.
Yonah Jeong Feb 5
In this hospital
they can't see the future
they can't see the past
they can't touch the movement
of the present
and invisible white lines
are stretched out
where silence and stillness
and the scent of teacups lingers
when we turn the doorknob
I open a book of poetry on the table
lines of the world of healing
the words wriggle out
and come out of the book
and design the future
and bring the past out
and turn on the light
the bell of healing is pealing.
30 · May 11
How to save a writer
Yonah Jeong May 11
do not read the book
let the book read you.
30 · Dec 2024
Love and Money
Yonah Jeong Dec 2024
When winter comes
houses of two brothers
far apart
A luxurious house Inside
younger brother's Summer
Inside the older brother's
shabby home Winter

When we look at them
from the perspective of money
the world is fair,
when you look at them
from the perspective of love,
the world is unfair.
30 · Jul 22
Great Short Laments
Yonah Jeong Jul 22
No more More no
More More
No No.
Yonah Jeong Jul 12
They can live without their parents
They can't be without their children

So love flows on today.
30 · Dec 2024
Love is
Yonah Jeong Dec 2024
to love
wide open sky
clouds and become
pouring down
showers after a drought.
30 · Jul 11
Human Reservation
Yonah Jeong Jul 11
they believed in love
they shared a hope
In the end
they were hunted to extinction
they were moved to reservation
Survivors
painful seconds
in the five oceans six continents
they are killing themselves with loneliness
Human, they
buried love in the battlefields
betrayed each other's trust
from the past
time of shame
those days are coming.
29 · Jul 21
Like yourself
Yonah Jeong Jul 21
Poetry
look, read, listen, write
stroking
every day.
29 · Dec 2024
rip-off
Yonah Jeong Dec 2024
Wife
"Don't wear outdated clothes"
"Wash your hair
in the every morning
"Don't buy
bean paste stew
outside"
When peeing,
don't let it fall
on the toilet floor"

It is Not That
A real it
“Write a poem that strikes my heart.”
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