Poetry from Korea by Ihlwha Choi
Ten people are eating rice cake dumpling soup
Same price
Same taste in the same bowl
Made by the same cook
They are eating the same soup delivered by the same waiter
Among them
Young people arrive through the falling snow
One young girl wearing a red backpack
Another girl wearing a baseball cap slightly tilted on the head
One male student with black eyebrows
who has ever written love letters
Sitting with a boy who has never written love letter
And also two privates coming out of army camp for vacation
One grandma with her little grandson
Among the ten
Some ones know each other and some not
Some seem to have seen each other somewhere
The wind is blowing very hard outside
Though ten people are eating hot rice cake dumpling soup
They are all islands surrounded by ten oceans
Ten islands different in shape
Are eating hot rice cake dumpling soup cooling huhu
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Ihlwha Choi is a South Korean poet. He has published multiple poetry collections, such as Until the Time When Our Love will Flourish, The Color of Time, His Song and The Last Rehearsal.
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