Comrade poets!

 Comrade poets!

 We're in a new world

 What's past is dead, who writes a poem

 In the age of wind and the atom

 Creates prophets!

 Our verses

 Have no colour

 No taste

 No sound

 If they do not carry the lantern

 From house to house!

 And if the "simple" cannot understand our poems

 Better for us to shed them

 And resort to silence

 If only these words were

 A plough in the hands of a peasant

 A shirt, a door, a key

 If only these words were!

 A poet says

 If my poems please my friends

 And anger my enemies

 Then I'm a poet.

 And I shall speak!

---Mahmoud Darwish   

बुद्ध भगवान

बुद्ध भगवान,

अमीरों के ड्राइंगरूम,

रईसों के मकान

तुम्हारे चित्र, तुम्हारी मूर्ति से शोभायमान।

पर वे हैं तुम्हारे दर्शन से अनभिज्ञ,

तुम्हारे विचारों से अनजान,

सपने में भी उन्हें इसका नहीं आता ध्यान।

--- हरिवंश राय 'बच्चन'

The Physics of Love

사랑의 물리학

질량의 크기는 부피와 비례하지 않는다

제비꽃같이 조그마한 그 계집애가

꽃잎같이 하늘거리는 그 계집애가

지구보다 더 큰 질량으로 나를 끌어당긴다.


순간, 나는

뉴턴의 사과처럼

사정없이 그녀에게로 굴러 떨어졌다

쿵 소리를 내며, 쿵쿵 소리를 내며

심장이

하늘에서땅까지

아찔한 진자운동을 계속하였다

첫사랑이었다.

The Physics of Love

Mass is not proportional to volume.
That girl as small as a violet,
that girl who floats like a petal
pulls me toward her with a force
greater than the Earth’s mass.

In an instant,
like Newton’s apple,
I dropped with a thump
and rolled to her
without stopping.

Thump. Thump.
My dizzy heart kept swinging
between Heaven and Earth—
it was my first love.

--- Kim In-yook  with English translation by David Bowles.

This poem became very popular after it was featured in the Korean drama "Goblin" (Guardian: The Great and Lonely God). It describes love using simple physics ideas.