POETRY CHANNEL

2008

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

NEW POEM

YES OR NO

I only had time to learn
a little Korean. It made
no sense to me. No
means yes. No
shows the depth
of a mother's love.
No means it has
been weighed. Yes
is the word my mother
chose to teach me.
Yes means abandon.
Yes means goodbye.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jae,

This poem is very poignant. I'm somewhat confused though -- is the sound of the word "no" equivalent to the sound of the Korean word translated as "yes"? equivalent to the sound of the Korean word for "weighing"?

2:52 PM  

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