Overly-dramatic Poems: Dwen Jang Jji Gae In Saeng

I was reading all of my poems again.
some pathetic...some bearable...few I really like.
One trend I did not fail to realize...
my poems are overly dramatic.

I guess I cannot break away from the Korean's overly-dramatic tendency.
It is funny that is exactly why I do not like Korean drama that much.

sober realization slowly settles.

may be... life doesn't have to be so dramatic.

No intricacy of metaphors...
No rhymes...
No sounds-cool vocabs...
No sugar-coated reality...

Yes to candid struggles and joys...

May be life is like dwen jang jji gae...
No need for MSG...
No fancy taste...
No tasty smell...
No enticing look...

Yet Lovely!


Hong Yoon Kim (6/24/09)