Jeong Ae Son – Poems and biography

Poet Ms. Jeong Ae Son debuted as a poet in 2014 in ‘Arama Literature’. She served as the 3rd and 4th chairman of ‘Sunjin Literature’. Special member of ‘Sisanmaek’. She is a member of the ‘Gyeongju Literary Association’, the ‘Gyeongbuk Literary Association’, and the ‘Daegu Catholic Literary Association’.

Her poetry collection is “Words from the Wind”.

She received the Grand Prize in poetry at the 2022 Ssangmaedang Icheom Literary Award, the Grand Prize for Sejong Culture Artists Who Brilliant Korea in 2021, and the Grand Prize in Poetry at the 2019 Songok This month Literary Award.

The long stone wall road I walked on

It was a path made with my mother’s sweat.

my mother’s mother,

Even her mother’s mother

Until the sun goes down on their small hearts,

they did housework

They walked on the treadmill with the help of their legs

They blink their eyes at the fluttering chaff.

The day was too short for the grain to become a grain of rice.

When the fishy smell of milk on cotton white clothes dries in the midday wind

A brother carrying a child searches for the mother’s breast.

A mother raises her child with her breast

The mother who remembers her mother blinks her heavy eyes.

Just as the grains ripening under the sun are the speed of the seasons

The red sunset is ripening

Now that the mother’s daughter has become a mother

Trimming the heavy sun of Seosan

For fifty and sixty.