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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