Category: Poems

고드름, 차강석 씀 | Icicles written by Cha, KangSeok

고드름

2026/01/22 차강석 씀

4층 아파트 베란다 밑에서
위태롭게 고드름이 자라고 있다

고드름은 바닥에 닿기 위해
물방울을 최선을 다해 모아 얼음을 만든다

만든 얼음으로 자신의 몸을 키워
바닥에 차츰차츰 가까워지고 있다

눈에 보이지 않지만
계속 자라서 시나브로 바닥에 닿을 것이다

인간들은 고드름의 자람이 위험하다고
고드름의 꿈과 아이들의 낭만을 무참히 꺾어 버린다

Icicles

High on an apartment balcony,

icicles hang, growing precariously.

To touch the ground,

they gather every falling drop,

freezing each into its fragile length.

With the ice they make, they stretch their body,

edging closer and closer to the earth.

Unseen to the eye,

they keep growing

and little by little,

They will reach the ground.

But humans call their growth dangerous

and, without mercy,

snap off the icicles’ dream

and children’s winter wonder.

시간 | Time

시간

2025/10/29 김수영 씀

 할 일이
 많아도  

 할 일이
 적어도

   보내는
 시간은 같다

   정작 무엇이
 바람직한것인지는
 알 수 없다!!

 

Time

 

Whether there’s a lot to do
or very little to do,

   we spent the same time.

  I don’t really know
what the ideal situation is!
Little or much to do.

인생, 차강석 씀 | Life by Cha, KangSeok

인생

2026/01/16 차강석 씀

창 밖에는
눈이 마구잡이로
내린다

종교를 갖기에는
내 정신이
너무 맑은 것 같다

가족을 갖고 싶지만,
너무 늦어 버렸다

오랜 친구들도 없어서
가슴앓이를 얘기할
지인도 없다

여생을 함께 할 사람이 없어
혹독한 삶이 될 것이다

언젠가는 지워질 눈밭에
발자국을 새기며 걸어가야겠다

Life

Beyond the window

snow falls

without mercy

To take up religion,

my mind is

too clear

I want a family,

but the time

has passed

I have no old friends

to speak my quiet grief to

With no one

to share what remains,

life will be a severe road

However, I will walk,

leaving my footprints behind
on a field of snow,

that will someday be erased.

따뜻한 추위, 차강석 씀 | Warm Cold, by Cha, Kang Seok

따뜻한 추위

2026/01/09 차강석 씀

갓난아기의 볼은
시베리아에서도 늘 따뜻해야 하듯
우리 사회의 온도도 그러해야 합니다

추위 속에서 고생한 누이가
장난으로 동생의 품속을 파고들어
서로의 온기를 나누듯 우리도 그럽시다

우리가 체온을 서로 나눌 때
북극의 한파가 봄바람으로 변하듯
혹독한 추위가 따뜻한 추위로 변할 것입니다

Warm Cold

Jan 9, 2026, written by Cha, Kang Seok

Just as a newborn baby’s cheeks
must always be warm, even in Siberia,
the temperature of our society should be.

Like a sister who,
having suffered in the cold,
playfully burrows into her younger sibling’s embrace
to share their warmth,
let us do the same.

When we share our body heat with one another,
Even the arctic chill will transform into a spring breeze.
The harsh cold becomes a warm cold.

(Book extract) The Three Ordinary Voices of God – continue 002

by Matthew Kelly

This is the second reading of this book, and I share some, and it will be continued.


The book starts with listening to God and asks us whether we are mis-living our lives or not: What does it mean to mis-live your life? It means to lead a life marked by water potential and misaligned with all that is good, true, just, and noble. I’ll say it again: you can mis-live your life. Have you ever mis-lived an hour? The problem is, put enough of those mis-lived days together and you will find yourself on the wrong side of a life well-lived. How do you find your way back from mis-lived days, weeks, or even years? It is simple but not easy. It is done one choice at a time. Begin now, without delay. Rectify your life immediately. A well-lived life is built the same way a mis-lived life is built: one choice at a time. Every choice builds character or erodes character. Making your next choice can shift the momentum of your day.

Make your next choice one that belongs in a well-lived life. 

(Book) The Three Ordinary Voices of God

written by Matthew Kelly


I started reading the book after I found it in a pile of books that others had left near the escalator of the condominium where I live. The book was too good to rush through, so I read one section a day and eventually finished it.

Chapters are followings:

 Let your life speak for itself
 The first voice: Needs
 The second voice: Talent
 The third voice: desires
 The ultimate desire
 Come to the quiet

The book opens with this:

Listening to God is an act of hopeful expectation
 Listening to God requires an open heart
 Listening to God requires us to set aside our personal preferences and agendas
 Listening to God involves letting go of our stubborn
 And prideful desire to do whatever we want
 Listening to God requires humility
 Listening to God is an act of surrender
 Will you listen?

I do not extract line by line because I hope to move all sentences, so I recommend you read the book or If you Google the author’s name, Matthew Kelly, you can find his YouTube Channel 


	


	



	
		

	



	

		


		
	




		
		





	

		

	

	

	

	

	

	

	

	

	

		
		

		
		



		
	


			
		
		
	













		
				
			
	
	 


		 	
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