CHEJU ISLAND.(Poem)
From: Poetry
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Date: 8/1/2001
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Author: DONG-SEON, HAHM
Sajebi Hill
Travelling over the long ages
And never forgetting how thick old Chu-Sa's hair grew
in his island prison,
The grandmother of the mountain was turned into a tree
rooted in a pot.
When the dark that draws around the island's peaks and
slopes
Is stepped into, when it gives off the muffled crunch of
snow underfoot,
The island can not drift toward sleep, not with all that
noise
And the work of oars rowing in another banished ...
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