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*Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows <YouTube> Everybody knows Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost ...

Garota de Ipanema by Tom Jobim (Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim) Olha que coisa mais linda Mais cheia de graça É ela a menina que vem e que passa num doce balanço a caminho do mar Moça do corpo dourado do sol de Ipanema O seu bal...

Harlem Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just s...

Malcolm X Boulevard, Harlem. July 2016 Photo: Sukie Park/NYCultureBeat *Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong -Summertime <YouTube> Summertime DuBose Heyward Summertime, and the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high Oh, you...

La Marseillaise French National Anthem composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792 Arise, children of the Fatherland, The day of glory has arrived! Against us tyranny Raises its bloody banner Do you hear, in the countryside, The roar ...

*Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia <YouTube> Photo: Sukie Park/NYCultureBeat Streets of Philadelphia Bruce Springsteen I was bruised and battered, I couldn't tell what I felt I was unrecognizable to myself Saw my reflection in...

Emanuel Leutze (1816–1868 ), Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas. Location: The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery #760 Photo: Sukie Park/NYCultureBeat America the Beautiful (*original title: Pikes Peak) Katharine Lee Bates (1893...

Muhammad Ali Life Recipe Muhammad Ali(1942-2016) Interview with David Frost (1974) David Frost:What would you like people to think about you when you've gone? Muhammad Ali: I'd like for them to say: He took a few cups of love. He took one t...

“I was reared in the garden, you know.” - Emily Dickinson to Louise Norcross, late April 1859 - Brooklyn Botanic Garden There Is Another Sky Emily Dickinson There is another sky, Ever serene and fair, And there is another sunshine, Though ...

엄마와 분꽃 이해인 엄마는 해마다 분꽃씨를 받아서 얇은 종이에 꼭꼭 싸매 두시고 더러는 흰 봉투에 몇 알씩 넣어 멀리 있는 언니들에게 선물로 보내셨다 어느 날 학교에서 돌아 온 나에게 엄마는 "분꽃씨를 뿌렸단다 머지않아 싹이 트고 꽃이 피겠지?" 하시...

Purple Rain Prince, The Revolution I never meant to cause you any sorrow I never meant to cause you any pain I only wanted to one time to see you laughing I only wanted to see you Laughing in the purple rain Purple rain, purple rain Purple ...

우주의 봄 김정기 그대는 다른 행성의 언어를 쓴다. 그 소리들이 껍질을 뚫는다 허물 벗은 소나무 새순이 발그레 하다가 연두가 들어있는 봄의 첫줄 첫사랑의 눈빛이다. 가버린 날에 살던 땅에서 카톡을 보내온 냉이 꽃다지 원추리에 들어있는 우주의 창문이 ...

Forever meditation, 2016.47x41x8, acrylic on wood with mirrow 시시비비 의 글 탑 離四句 絶百非 有 無 非有 非無 非非有 非非無 非非亦非有 非非亦非無 離四句 絶百非 非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非非 亦非非非非非非...

New York City Lights Sophie Ellis-Bextor Do it, feel it, touch it, taste it Be it, live it, need it, take it Just another day I want to get away I've got a ticket for a new adventure No one will know our name So we can start again And all w...

Central Park From Winter Tree to Spring Tree Hwang Ji-woo A tree is a tree In its body. With its whole body the tree becomes a tree. All the body naked, At thirteen degrees below zero, At twenty degrees below zero, Rooting the whole body in...

봄비 이수복 이 비 그치면 내 마음 강나루 긴 언덕에 서러운 풀빛이 짙어 오것다. 푸르른 보리밭길 맑은 하늘에 종달새만 무어라고 지껄이것다. 이 비 그치면 시새워 벙글어질 고운 꽃밭 속 처녀애들 짝하여 외로이 서고 임 앞에 타오르는 향연(香煙)과 같이 ...

Spring Yun Dong-ju Spring runs within blood vessels like a stream, and on the bank near a stream forsythias, azaleas, and yellow cabbage flowers I, who have endured winter, sprout like grass Joyful robin, fly up from any furrow The blue sky...

낙엽 (落葉) 이경림 산머루 떨어진 길섶변으로 누워 나뒹구는 퇴색한 얼굴. 계절 (季節)이 그렇게 남기고 간 흔적일 수 없는 진액의 눈물 자국으로 패어진 홈 따라 새겨진 갈색 마음이 말라비틀어진 얼굴로 슬픔을 토한다. 조용한 울부짖음은 체념(滯念)이 있...

Simon Park, Snowscape The Snowy Village Kim Yong-taek Have you entered a snowy village in the evening? Have you seen a snowy village where snow falls from the sky and the village quietly receives it? As you enter the village, all the roads ...

Glenn Frey (1948-2016) Hotel California Eagles *Eagles-Hotel California (with lyrics) On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light My head...