-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 God’s
hands
May be disappeared by the God’s
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 Dragon’s
sleeping in your heart.
Then the ablaze Dragon can
Awaken your sleeping to touch Truth.
