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Olympic Poetry for Kim Yu-na

Kwame Dawes' Olympic Poetry on Korea's figure skating queen Kim Yu-na, which was published in the Wall Street Journal, is drawing attention among Korean netizens.

In the poetry titled "Closing Ceremony, Yuna Kim, Unceremonious Silver, the writer said "And when she said softly, that she was happy now that it was over, this when she had lost the gold, and the bedlam around her told her she was cheated."

"I believed her, believed her belief, her sense that the weight of it all was now gone, that the queen unburdened of the stone around her to tutor her body through pain and to carry the flame of envy, anger, awe and fear inside her, stoking it for years and years as a flame that this was over now, and all she felt was relief, gladness, and peace- when she said, I am happy, it is over, I believed her. And she, skateless, mortal, grounded, she walked, stuttering and ordinary, away from the arena."

(khnews@heraldcorp.com)