Poems & Submissions

1. Time*

Time, it sure is an important term

Everyone or everything living right

now is bound by it and it passes by

every second unconsciously

We should make out the most out of

the time given to us. We want to

play, have fun, and entertain ourselves

We are that kind of creatures!

Our life is like a “Marshmallow Story”,

we get to wait to gain something extra,

until when do we get to cross the finish line?

We don’t know, but let’s make everyday a joy.

2. Fear*

Fear is a natural feeling for

everyone who expects result for

something they’ve done. It is rare

for people to be carefree about the result.

That’s why we feel fear because

we want the result we desire, not

the result we wouldn’t want, and fear

derives from possibility of undesired result.

Fear can come from anything, our secrets, our

test results, our job interviews and lots more,

but rather if it already happened or not, we

should not be consumed by fear and not move on.

3. Reality/Distortion*

Reality, it is surely something

we have to deal with no matter

what sort of delusion we have in

our mind big or small.

We as human beings are attacked to

needs, but unfortunately full of greed

as well. We never get to find a point

where we get to say “that’s enough.”

When, our delusion and reality seems

different, we get to run away from reality

not only students, but everyone. We are faced

with two options: keep running or make our

delusion become the reality.

4. Students

We are students as of now

Our school is the workplace

Our house is the rest place

Spend 6 to 7 hours in school

then come back with homework.

Sometimes we are stunned by

the number of homework we have.

We get to spend the rest of the day

doing homework until all done.

Some students don’t get to start off

right away because of pressure of many homework.

Homework are great for reviewing

but too much homework just get in student’s way.

Each individual students have individual schedules

and more than enough homework just inhibits our schedules.

5. Luxuries

Luxury  it sure is a meaningful word

for every people of different sex,

different age and different income.

For me, I liked luxuries since

I was a kid. Which was unlike other kids.

In this world where we have abundance

of materials, anything common doesn’t

get to have any value these days.

Meanwhile, luxuries are quite different.

Luxuries come at a high price

and because of two reasons.

First being the brand name value

and the materials which defines.

Both reasons working in synergy and

for people like me who have the urge

to buy feel temptation to buy and

don’t get to know how to stop the urge.

6. Money*

Money,  it if something vital

in our society and more is better.

We’ve got to get our first taste

of money when we got allowance as a kid.

We got to pay a certain amount of money

to get the service equivalent to the amount.

Yet our allowances are usually less than

what most adults make and technically

we are using our parent’s money in our name.

Me personally, I cannot buy expensive products,

even if I have saved up enough allowance,

for myself or to my parents as I’m

using up my parent’s money. The time

when I will have total control of money

is near and yet I don’t know if I will

earn enough money for my lifestyle.

7. Fad

Fad, it is something that is always there

we sometimes get to be a part of it

or not and just get a slight look at it

or just ignore it even if it is there

There is always person who is into

one of the fads and we call them a nerd

and there are people who think nerd is weird

and can’t understand what one is into

Nerds are more than average entertainer

some love one in another dimension

even after “they are not real” you mention

and some are super duper serious gamer.

I can say nerds do those things to be happy

even if no-one understands why they’re happy.

8. Happiness*

Happiness, it is surely what all 

people want in their entire lifetime.

Even though, if we want to be happy 

and are happy is a totally different story.

To be happy, we got to choose one out of 

two options we have. One, is to be happy 

with the current situation, and second is

to make the future you want by working for it.

Happiness is what every people must need to

sustain their life. Without happiness, we feel

like our life is meaningless. We wish we are all

happy as life is a meaningful present given to us.

* : Sent to the Poetry Contest

Submission Proof

Title explanation of "Do Seek Their Meat from God."

The title of Roberts' short story, "Do Seek Their Meat from God" is a biblical allusion from the King James Bible, Psalm 104:21 which is "The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God". This verse, in biblical explanations means the God feeds every creatures fairly, not just sheeps and lambs, and lions roar in this case to thank the God for food given by him. However, in Roberts' short story, the title is interpreted different from the bible. In the story, panthers who roar, thanking the God for the human meat of a crying kid, get killed by the hunter who unintentionally saves his son. This is an unfair treatment to panthers as they lost their food because of settlers changing the environment and even if they get to find food, they get killed by the settlers. In the hunter's perspective, it is viewed as panthers are threatening the crying child and he gets to take out the gun to kill the panthers and save the child who he later figures out was his son. The irony is the cry of the child brought the child the meat of panther, while the roar of panthers brought them nothing in the end.

In short, the novel brings up the idea of "Is God really feeding every creatures fairly?" If God was really fair, the panthers wouldn't have died just because of the reason that they were searching for food. Or the novel can bring up the basic of idea of "Do God really exists in the first place?" Nevertheless, we can summarize the theme of the story as "The world is unfair" as the world was truly unfair to the panthers in the story.

First Post

The movie which is still memorable to me is called "Train to Busan", a zombie movie by a Korean director Yeon Sang-ho who used to create animated movies. The movie was a major hit in Korea with a total of 11,564,524 audiences in total and it was screened in Vancouver 2 months ago.

The movie sets in place in Seoul, South Korea where the main character named Seokwo Seo working in a stock firm as a fund manager. Seokwo Seo has a daughter named Suan Seo, and he is a terrible dad as he is busy with his own job and have his mom raise her most of the time. He divorced with his wife not so long ago and his daughter wanted to go to Busan where her mother lives. The main character took a rest and with his daughter got into a KTX, a Korean rapid bullet train, bound for Busan at Seoul Station. At the same time, an infected person got into the train as of instinct for survival and the infection inside the KTX begins.

Personally, I think it was a masterpiece as action scenes were impressive, showed a bitter satire on Korean society and I got to understand each characters' conflicts. Each and every scene in the movie was thrilling and hard to foresee what was coming. If you want to watch it, go and buy or rent a DVD if available and see it for yourself.