In Jeju Island, When The Wind Passes By Poem by Kinsley Lee

In Jeju Island, the wind speaks.
In Jeju Island, the wind speaks.
When it brushes against the Flame Grasses, the wind speaks.
When it passes through the bamboo forest, the wind speaks.

In Jeju Island, the wind speaks.
When it brushes against the red camellia forest, the wind speaks,
When it brushes against the tall pine branches, the wind speaks,
In Jeju Island, the wind speaks.

When the wind speaks
The Oreum aches.
When the wind speaks
The sea aches.

Have you heard the words of the winds?
Do you know how the waves ache?
Do you know how the black rocks ache?
Have you heard the words of the waves?

In Jeju Island, the wind speaks,
When, the Halla Mountain, it crosses over,
When, the Namhae, it crosses over,
Over the wide sea, the wind speaks.

The wind speaks
Only the truth the wind speaks
The wind never be the black liars
The wind never makes excuses for others.

The wind only blows in the direction it chooses,
The mountain only remembers the past and it aches,
It doesn't create new memories,
On the past facts, it never add new memories.

People and things can only hear the sounds of the winds,
Black rocks can only be hit by that the wave speaks,
At their will, no one can change the sounds of the winds.
In Jeju Island, the wind speaks.

(Kinsley,16th, Mar.,2023)

*Oreum: small volcanic cones
*Namhae: South Sea