To Catch The Agony Poem by Kinsley Lee

To Catch The Agony



Sang-Cheol, Han

The leather gloves which are used for baseball
Are like the five stalks bananas. The hundred-and-eight torments
Of mankind, of which the devil hit the seamed ball
The Buddha snatched and swallowed at short moments.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The original poem was written in Korean, the Han-Si which written in Chinese letters, by Sang-Cheol Han, and translated in English by Kinsley Lee. The poet regarded the ball which was stitched 108 times with red threads as the hundred-and-eight torments of mankind. He expressed that to throw, to hit and to catch, all of these procedure as throwing and catching the agony between devil and Buddha.
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