Monday, March 26, 2012

To Polar Dragon

To Polar Dragon

-To memory of W.B. Yeats and his poem "The poet pleads with the 'Elemental powers.' "



                                                

                                                            Written by Mina Cho



During endless time

Your radiating spirit covered on the earth

And lived in there.

I heard that before humankinds made by God,

The owner of the earth was you.

I heard that your loud crying was shaking the stars

Gushing out fire.

The guard of the Immortal Rose

On the Tree of Life fallen into the world.



Before two million years

You were walking on the earth

And you walked backward

Nowadays you are screaming only as the cosmic fossils.

At last you are coming in my mind again

And become a whirling mythology of old sky.

Now you are the fire of the sleeping spirit of the old Polar Dragon.

As I look back and look back again

I ask to your presence on my way of backward.



Even the first creating Gods hands

May be disappeared by the Gods eye

Opened and closed as a short dream?

Then oh, human,

Do not ask the way of the Immortal Rose

Which was guarded by Polar Dragon.

But awaken the Dragons sleeping in your heart.

Then the ablaze Dragon can

Awaken your sleeping to touch Truth.