The Poetry of Mindfulness Korean Poetry

1. Introduction

To read poetry is to come back to oneself, to marvel at the world, and to experience multicolored emotions. The days lived ask the days to live. ‘Are you living a life of mindfulness, or are you having a mindless time?’

Now that social distancing and reflection on life are needed more than ever, how about handing a poem instead of a hand? Mexican ventriloquists, sailors' captains of British sailors, rabbis and Sufi poets of the 1st century BC, as well as Nobel Prize-winning poets such as Pablo Neruda and Wisława Szymborska, new generation poets on Facebook and Instagram, and on the walls of Ladakh temples. Anonymous who wrote poetry. Ancient, medieval, and modern poets invite readers to reflect on others with rhyme.

A collection of beautiful poems does not make a good collection of poems. There is a moment when true realization opens the door to poetry.

Poems of mindfulness introduced by poet Ryu Si-hwa. Each poem containing the pattern of life causes ripples in the heart.