엇갈림

고양이는 어느샌가
촐랑촐랑 걸어가
화분옆에 살며시 앉아
나뭇가지를 툭 건든다.

'행운'이라고 지었주었건만
불러도 대답도 없는
무정한 녀석.

잎파리 하나 없는 줄기를 
쉼 없이 부벼댈 뿐. 

2009.11.27

아름다움에 대하여 (About Beauty)

하나의 선이 존재한다는 것은
어딘가에 필시 그 울림이 존재한다는 걸 뜻한다고 믿는다.
허공을 감싸는 둥근 선,

허공의 무게가 버거워 찌그러진 선,

허공을 벗어나려는 아쉬움의 끝자락에 매달린 선.

선들은 서로를 울리고  팅기며

시간과 공간의 틈새에서 끊임없이닳아간다.

어느 적적한 날, 호숫가의 허공을 가르는 - 미끼가 대롱대롱한 - 기다림의 선은

결국 기타가 퉁겨내는 굵은 떨림보다 성숙한걸까?

떨림은 파동을 일으키고, 그 파동에 주위의 선들은 동요한다.

 ‘떨린다,’라는 표현은 반대적 상황에서 쓰인다

마음이 불안할 때 아니면 눈물이 날만큼기쁨으로 충만할 때.

정작 현실의 심장은 쉼 없이떨고있다.

서로다른 떨림이 일치하게 된다면, 단 한 숨동안만이라도.

떨림은 진공에 다른다. 하지만 확률이 얼마나 될까?

그저나의 미미한 떨림이 이웃하는 선에 닿을수만 있다면, 그것 또한 아름다움이다.

Politics: North Korea and Secretary Clinton

Fine, we all agree on that North Korea's dictatorial regime should be ended; its dictatorship deprives individuals' freedom, its government is malfunctioning, extremely corrupt and is manipulative of its people's minds. The list of faults of the North Korean regime is simply endless and we as world citizens must do something!

So why begin with dismantling nuclear weapon? Why not start with non-political issues where North Korea is not as sensitive about as its security issue? Imagine five kids - named South Korea, United States, Japan, Russia, and China - ganging up on cornering one kid. The last thing for him to give up would be his the right to protect herself from others. Asking North Korea to denuclearize is like asking to stop protecting himself. Why would ANYONE do that?

Shouldn't we ponder upon "how to ensure North Korea that she will be accepted by the rest of world community?" not "how to make him feel humiliated?"

The visit of NY Philharmonic Orchestra to North Korea seems to have become nothing but a miracle. Shouldn't the U.S. government have taken more advantage of the event and pushed it further to that direction? Wouldn't it have been truly awesome if the U.S. in return invited the North Korean musicians to perform at Carnegie Hall? I would have cried if that happened. I didn't cry when I watched the recording of the broadcast of the NY philharmonic's concert in N. Korea. I didn't like the way they westernized our Minyo, 아리랑.

Let alone the debate whether North Korea should abandon its nuclear weapon. The U.S. and Russia themselves own more weapons than the rest of the world's combined. The persuasion of that matter perhaps should come at the last step of peace negotiation (in a different manner, too). A common sense.  

Hillary Clinton's calling North Korea "small children" is the least helpful comment that she could have made. and for that, I can't help nodding to North Korea's response, which called her a "primary school girl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping."