SUCHOON MO - POEMS

Suchoon Mo is a war veteran and a retired academic living in the semiarid part of Colorado.   He writes poetry and composes music.   Some of them appear in literary and cultural publications.

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Noah's Flood and Buddha and Car Repair
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​I was reading three books simultaneously
the resultant inspiration became a poem
 
 
Noah's flood over Bering Strait
when it was when it did happen
remove the flywheel cover plate
check for crank shaft end play
thus spoke Buddha while asleep
 
you bodhisattvas of past and future
therefore because as we ought to know
the exhaust gas recirculation system
install the oil lever pump spring
delievered into the nirvana tank
 
the nature of the truth is not understood
nor can it be true or false
the air conditioning system is just frozen
its installation is not even cold
well done quite well done with a blow troch
 
the enlightened spiritual car repair
torque the bolt to eighty foot-pounds
 
lower the self to flat existence
test drive
 
 

Let The Bell Toll Alone
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let the bell toll
the bell ringer has died
 
let the bell toll
the bell ringer is no more
 
let the bell toll
alone

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​The Demilitarized Zone

in the valley of ten thousand mines
buried in silence and yet to explode
ten thousand flowers are about to bloom
the cries of soldiers who perished long ago

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