Poetry from Mind

🌿 Summary

 

This poem reflects a long companionship between the poet and an orchid, showing how patience and restraint gradually transform desire into quiet understanding.

Over decades, caring becomes less about control and more about trust, allowing both the orchid and the heart to grow naturally. 

 

[ 난초 ]

  

Summary

 

This poem captures a quiet moment at midnight, when the Samgyeong bell rings and fades.

It does not describe awakening or enlightenment, but a gentle pause in which the mind reflects, resets, and forms a small intention to live the coming day a little more brightly.

 

 [사찰의 종]

 

Summary

 

This short Korean poem captures a fleeting moment of reflection through the image of fluorescent lights reflected in a glass of alcohol. It explores the delicate interplay between perception, movement, and time. The poem invites readers to pause, consider subtle changes, and reflect on the unnoticed rhythms of everyday life.

 

 

🌌 Summary

This poem is rooted in the belief that all beings are stars and angels, temporarily dwelling in the human world.

Though living as humans, we carry a quiet memory of the sky within us—an unspoken sense of origin and belonging.

The poem does not explain return or rebirth, but gently suggests that life itself is a brief stay,

and that every being may already be prepared, simply waiting in stillness.

 

 

🌿 Summary

 

This poem captures the quiet longing that follows a fleeting moment of spiritual awakening.

The speaker senses a presence that is undeniably near, yet unreachable—not because it has moved away, but because the heart itself has changed.

Once touched by a moment of pure awareness, the speaker yearns to return to that closeness.

However, desire and longing now stand where innocence once was.

The poem reflects on how true closeness arises not through effort or pursuit, but through a mind free of grasping.