Kim Unsong 

San Bruno, California, USA 

Kim is a native of Korea, educated and graduated from Seoul U. and U. Of Wisconsin (Ph.D. in 1958). He has been awarded an Honorary Literature Degree by the World Academy of Arts & Culture (1991). An International Who's Who in Poetry (1994 & 1997). Kim has published more than 500 poems and 11 books of poetry including poems like "Search of Life" and "Modern Sijo," as well as translations like, Classical Korean poems (Sijo & Hyangga), Poems by Mao Tze Tung, Lao Tzu's Tao Teching, Poems by Korean Poets in China, Selected Sijo by Korean Poets in China, etc. 

Pink Azalea 

They bloom alone 
Around a quiet place 
Where men, animals and insects 
make little havoc of rat-race 

Azaleas are no Cosmos flower 
Standing by the roadside 
Flirting, giggling and cheek-rubbing 
Against passersby, so dignified 
They only bloom pink 
Like maidens' heart, so purified 
Breathing free fresh air 
In the morning glow, misty-eyed 
They drift upon the river 
Getting neither wet nor dried 

Azaleas refuse to be tainted 
By evening glow on the west-side 
Mellowing into a pink shade 
Beneath the sun at eventide

Titanic Saga 

Yet, in the middle of an ebony night 
On the south sea of Newfoundland 
A conspiracy among the Satanic demons and Neptune 
Wrought havoc with an ice-berg 
Ripping 300 feet along the Titanic's steel belly 
Sinking her with 1,500 souls 
Down to 13,000 feet of the Arctic floor 
Sending its shock waves around the globe 

It's the size of Titanic 
It's the surprise of the world 
It's the elegance of the wealthy 
It's the arrogance of engineers 
It's the charisma of the rich and famous 
It's the enigma of Mother Nature 
It's the enormity of ding gods 
It's the enmity against the tragic fate 
That grip our hearts for so long and deep 
With the legacy ot Titanic saga