Of You

The lovely smell of spring

Reminds me of You.

The cheerful vibrancy of flowers

Reminds me of Your smile.

And the fervor of colors

Reminds me of the way Your eyes sparkle

When you speak.

The vividity of the evening sky

Reminds me of Your amused expression

Responding to the silliest of things.

Every single aspect of the cosmos

Reminds me... of You.

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Perfect Paradise

A place of bliss

Where hopes and wishes fly

An abode of dreams

Across the purple sky

It feels like a conundrum

Like the depths of your gaze

The sweet aroma of dusk deepens

And the camellia merrily sways

The radiance in your smile

Glistens with absolute grace

In every notion of universe

There is perfect paradise in your embrace

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장미의 향기: The Scent of Rose

그대 선물로 무엇을 줄까요?

생각하면서 궁금했어요

빛나는 햇빛

아니면 깊은 바다를 줄까요 ?

깊은 바다보다 깊어요

그대 깊은 눈빛

빛나는 햇빛보다 밝아요

그대 찬란한 미소..그게 별빛

생각하다가 깨달았다..

그대 생각은 장미 향기 난다

그래서 그대에게

장미의 향기를 선물하기로 했다

Meaningful English Translation:

What shall I give you as a gift?

I wondered (or asked myself)

While thinking about it.

Shall I gift you the shining sunrays

Or the deep ocean?

Your eyes are deeper

Than the deepest oceans

Your splendid smile

Is brighter than the shining rays

it's (your smile) the starlight.

While thinking, I realized that..

Your thoughts (while I think of you)

Has the smell of roses

So, I decided to give you

The scent of rose as a gift.

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A little back story:

Gifts convey a lot without uttering a single word. For me, a gift indicates a representation of a memory that is invoked. Something reminds you of someone. That is the reason we forward pictures or videos or a link. It tells the receiver that this is what reminds me of you. It may be a book or some personalized gift that you invested your time and effort to prepare just for the receiver. But it is not as easy as it may seem...well sometimes. The sender wants to give something that represents the receiver in some way and also has the essence of the feelings and emotions embedded into it. How does one decide?

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모를지도 몰라요: I May not Know

봄의 색은 잘 모를지도 몰라요 
그대 미소의 모든 색은 알고 있어요

신신한 맑은 하늘이 모를지도 몰라요

그대 숨결의 향기를 느꼈어요

음악과 심포니를 모를지도 몰라요

그대 마음의 아름다운 소리를 들었어요

세상을 아직도 잘 모를지도 몰라요

옛날 옛날 부터 이 사랑은 알고 있어요

이 감정을 알고 있었던 것 같아요

Meaningful English Translation:

I may not know the colors of spring

But I know the colors of Your smile

I may not know the fresh clear sky

But I have felt the fragrance of Your breath

I may not know of music or symphonies

But I have listened to the

Beautiful sound of Your heart

I may not know the world yet

But I have known of this Love

From time immemorial

I feel I have always known this feeling.

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A little something:

There are many things we do not know of. Even though we might feel or think that we know, we actually might not. However, there are certain senses, certain emotions, or certain feelings, that we have always known. We may not even know how we know of this, but we just know. It feels like this is a part of our very soul and existence... something that makes our heart beat.

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Decadent Warm Rich Dark Chocolate Brownies

I could fill in

pages after pages

Describing...

just your smiles

and laughs

but then

every time

I think of it

my heart melts

and all my thoughts

are left in a puddle

only to be

evaporated later

by the warmth of

your gaze

to an effervescent essence

Wrapped

around the fabric of eternity

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Autumn Skies

There is sunshine in your smile

And sparkling stars in your eyes

Across miles.....

Yet every while

I unfold memories of you

Looking at the autumn skies.

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Thoughts that led to the poem:

Have you seen the sky recently?

It is so beautiful! Isn't it?

Every moment spent looking up at the sky

somehow feels... surreal! Does it not?

As if you have stardust in your eyes...

As if you can feel someone's essence

In your Heartbeat...

As if you are mesmerized by the

Dance of Destiny..

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Smile

I never knew

I have a

gleam in my eyes

when I smile

Until...

someone told me so.

I would probably have

just brushed it off

but I closed my eyes

And thought

for a while.

I sensed

an identical gleam 

in someone's eyes too.

And I realized

who it was

who reflected

in my every smile. 

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Hopes

It's you

And your alluring smile

That made it what it was

That moment

And every other moment

Every day

Every second

Meaning of it

I still wonder about

After writing a few verses

Feelings still sprout 

"Why do so many lines you carve?"

They ask

But the world hasn't seen

your smile the way I have

The universes may change

And the worlds within it may too

But that glimmering smile 

Is beyond eternal

Brightness of a zillion lumens

And of hopes anew

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매력: Charm

그대 웃음소리는

바다의 음악을

더 선율적으로 만들어요

눈을 깜박이면

반짝이는 별이

더 밝게 반짝에요 

그대 모든 매력이

봄의 향기로 

세상을 물들어요

어느 마술인가요

아니면 그냥

그대 매력인가요?

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Meaningful English Translation:

The sound of your laughter

Makes the music of the ocean

Even more melodious

When You blink Your eyes,

The twinkle of the stars

Become brighter

Your every charm

Colors the world with

The fragrance of Spring

Is it some sort of magic

Or is it just

Your Charm?

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Forever You

I am myself 

But when you look at me

with your smiling eyes

I lose the sense of my heartbeat

I am myself 

But when you laugh heartily

on silly things

I lose the sense of the air I breath

I am myself

But when you do

the cute goofy things

I lose the tide of time

I am myself 

But when you murmur

sweet nothings

I lose the sense of the world around me

I am still myself

But whenever you are around

I lose some of me...

immersed in you

And there's nothing more than I love

Than still being me

Yet lose myself completely on you...

All. Over. Again!

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Mystical

Nothing was ever as mystical,

As the chime of Your smile...

The breeze draped in fragrance plume,

And the lavender roses in bloom.

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And Then Love Knew

Out of the window, the world seemed to orchestrate the various moments of the afternoon with an impeccable pace and resonance. There were a million things happening yet the place seemed to be at a standstill. The place was kaleidoscopic with the eclectic colours of the autumn. The placid hues spelled a thousand words, words with a zillion emotions. There she was, sitting in her own little world, taking a sneak peek at what she called life. She sat there trying to decipher the hues and immerse in the emotions. The tinge of the autumn and the tint of her dreams were accorded in harmony, a harmony that was as enigmatic as she was.

The tranquillity of her mind was obvious but her heart was most probably in the state of a “Sturm und Drang”. Tacitly, this dissonance reflected in the cosmos. She knew she wanted to find the answers to the questions the turmoil posed but she also knew that her dreams are the answer to her dreams. Some questions are better left unreciprocated but being a dreamer has its side effects! The nature riveted her with its multitude of shades and there she sat living through each of it. Each of those moments was an epic by itself; the oblivion was inevitable. After all, nature fuelled the conundrum of her thoughts.

The reverie was redolent with the essence of her heart; her heart - an absolute enigma, her eyes - a perfect conundrum. It’s but the smile! It’s the smile, perspicuous and elucidating, that was the gateway to that enthralling world. The tincture of the trance melted and merged into the oblivion of universe. And as she lifted her eyes, suddenly the rays showed her the elations….. And then love knew she was called Love!

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A quick note - (for the term "Sturm Und Drang" used in second paragraph).....


"Sturm Und Drang", literally "Storm and Drive", "Storm and Urge", is a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and Music of the late 18th century. This movement signifies human individualism, feeling and expression of emotion in reaction to the perceived constraints of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment and associated aesthetic movements.
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