to a rebel poet

you penned a bitter life
the paper bled and burned with your blood
i drained the tears

in your empty eyes
you dreamt of better days
while fighting underground

i heard the muses cried
when you died a hundred deaths
when bullets rained your body

and the last drop
of your blood stained the ground
with your last poem


Feature: Poet of place, poet of Cebu by Alfred A. Yuson (from The Philippine STAR 03/18/2002)

In the News: Interpreter Publishes Translation of Lee Sang's Poetry
Washington DC-based interpreter Kim Myeong-hui has published an English translated version of "Crow's Eye View," a collection of poems and essays by legendary poet Lee Sang.

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