"jeong" poems
i found myself last night whispering your name under the shield of my duvet, willing myself to pronounce every syllable of your name to the darkness of my room. i looked up to the plastic stars on my ceilings, remainders of the childhood i once had, and said it:
“yoon. jeong. han”
every syllable clear and true.
and it occurred to me,
how beautiful your name was.
“yoon” — the moon and the whistles of the wind, lulling me into dreamland.
“jeong” — a masculine edge.
and finally, the concluding “han” that returns it into its original softness.
clean milky way.
i’ve never expected to fall for a boy with your name. but i’ve always been fascinated with the universe and all the bright lights surrounding our blue planet. so i guess, it is only fitting for me to fall for a boy whose name means “clean milky way”
so i whispered your name over and over into the night.
yoon jeonghan.
yoon jeonghan.
yoon jeonghan.
until the taste of it becomes as familiar as the quiet.
and i swear, i saw the plastic stars on the ceiling growing brighter with every syllable.
i whispered and whispered until i fell into morpheus’ charm, and awoke with a new realization:
your name is my favorite sound.
Feb 15, 2018
Feb 15, 2018 at 3:33 PM UTC
See, do you see?
free cat roams
free cat lives its multiple lives
curly tail and rich fur and shiny eyes
across the Korean landscape of Jeong Seon;
and do you hear?
Free cat purrs:
*“it’s nice, dear Cat God
to be free and open
and I like it I owe you no obedience
unlike those miserable humans;
in your wisdom
you make crickets and large insects appear
and I make them disappear –
you and I are equal partners in the cycle of life,
dear Cat God;
and a rat in the wild
and some water in a secluded pool
and all these fresh air and hidden nests
I like all that, I like it this way
(And I don’t a give a meow or cat-shit for humans
and their elegant cats lying on cushions)
And of course,
when the passion seizes me
in here in the open,
there’s always a ***** cat, ready and wet
and we wail and meow all night
Hey Cat God -
I like it this way, feral in the wild”*
Jul 6, 2012
Jul 6, 2012 at 4:14 AM UTC
i can't wait until we go through with 25A
once we remove trump from office
then ALL of our problems will go away
& world peace will be here to stay
i better start practicing telling everyone
what they can and can not say.
Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 2:28 PM UTC
LOVE
This word
Made worlds turn upside down
L
O
V
E
That feeling you have
When you see the wild ocean for the first time
When you see how white the snow is for the first time
As you dig deeper
You will know
that ..
You can drown
In that same water, you prized
You can freeze to death
In the same feathery snowflakes
That fascinated you
By their unique shape
By their glimmering
As you dig deeper
You will know
How sweet it is that feeling of love
And being loved
" it's better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all "
A mixed haphazard feeling
L i k e T H a t F e e L i n g
WHEN ...
you taste that first sip of coffee
from your favorite mug
in a sunny spring day
WHEN ....
you smile at a stranger
and smiles back
you travel with no destination
and the universe keeps on surprising u
you dance like no one's watching
you sleep under the stars
you can't sleep
because you are excited for the next day
you are running into someone
you haven’t seen in a while
you draw a big smile
on the faces of your loved ones
Feb 24, 2021
Feb 24, 2021 at 7:15 PM UTC