Mr.+Jun's+Poetry

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Just to show you how much I enjoy reading and writing poetry, I have included a few of my own poems. Enjoy!

"To My Grandfather - To My Grandson" by Charles Jun, Spring 2011

I find you here,  In a reflection and artifact,   In nearness and impassable distance,   Static clusters of blacks and whites. More than a picture, less than a world;  Life capsule and coffin;   This is a doorway and a dead end. Your daughter rests on silence  and buried tragedies While I listen through the silence. //Is this where we finally meet?// The morning calm approaches as   Rays of warmth eclipse   Dewy hills and blanket my garden. Mother’s perfected dance--  Undisturbed, perfected-- continues while   Scurrying villagers welcome the day. Two of my children rise and Prepare to catch grasshoppers, Others rustle through the kitchen, I look beyond and feel at ease.

“Missing Traffic: A Poem for My Brother” by Charles Jun, Summer 2011

I know how much you miss LSD (or was it the El? CTA?) - Maybe this is how Lot's wife felt.

felt? trespassing in a new city as good as dead and climbing onto this long train that stretches to the village of rusted metal chimneys the paper hole punch dropping in the sky mesmerizes us exposed steel beams make abandoned brick buildings look like a decomposing urban corpse as we run atop the caboose-freight-freight-freight-freight-freight-head looking at each other and knowing that someday we might make it home