Seungbihn Park
Bells
One stuck to the grey fridge
and one on the white side table
Painted ruby, glued with a pebble colored
magnet against the fridge
On the other hand
coated in gold with a hand
sewed holder
with the image of a skeleton of a cow
on black grass covered
with red, green, blue, and yellow wild flowers
On the edge,
the thin pieces of threads
were sinking out like fireworks
I remember,
when this strange carnival
in one of the villages of Lucerne
People dressed in sheep wool
and a wooden mask of kriens
Ringing Bells
“Ding Ding Ding”
til midnight
My roommate couldn’t force
herself to sleep
so she put on the mask of the old man
grieving, sorrowful
–trapped in a little girl’s body.
Seungbihn Park has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards at the National Level, and she is looking forward to participate in many more competitions as well as write for literary publications. Her poetry, short stories, and other works have been influenced by her diverse experiences in a variety of countries, such as Switzerland, South Korea, the Philippines, and the Dominican Republic. As a 12-year-old middle schooler at International School Manila, she has been subject to a plethora of cultural perspectives and aims to share these through her poems.
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