Poet Lee Min Sook is a pianist, poet, essayist and lyricist. She serves as the Chairperson of the Dante Literary Association and is the publisher of Oseon Literary Publishing. She is also a board member of the Korean Writers’ Association and the Korean Modern Poets Association. In addition, she serves as the Chief Judge of the Seoul Citizens’ Literary Award and as an editorial writer for Media Korea. She has received numerous honors, including the Grand Prize at the 9th Maeheon Yun Bong-gil Literary Awards. Poet Lee Min Sook has published four poetry collections, including Walking on the Staff, and has contributed to more than thirty literary journals and writers’ anthologies.
The Light That Leads Me
Behind me, a light
fear takes flight,
and brightness fills its place.
A glow settles at my feet;
the silent street
knows its grace.
The path grows wide,
walls give way,
fingertips find
another hand, another mind.
Thoughts of harmony cross the sea,
and hearts grow calm,
soft and free.
Though the light speaks not a word,
it lifts the fallen,
tender and unheard.
The grace of a single flame
calls peace by name.
In the dark,
a trembling spark
paints the sky
and hope rises high.
And so, it begins
with the light within.
Prepared by Angela Kosta Executive Director of the Magazines: MIRIADE, NUANCES ON THE PANORAMIC CANVAS, BRIDGES OF LITERATURE, journalist, poet, essayist, publisher, literary critic, editor, translator, promoter
