Daily Poem: My Baby Has No Name Yet ~ Kim Nam-jo
My Baby Has No Name Yet
~ Kim Nam-jo
Translated from Korean by Ko Won
My baby has no name yet;
like a new-born chick or puppy,
my baby is not named yet.
What numberless texts I examined
at dawn and night and evening over again!
But not one character did I find
which is as lovely as the child.
Starry fields of the sky,
or heap of pearls in the depth.
Where can the name be found, how can I?
My baby has no name yet;
like an unnamed bluebird or white flowers
from the farthest land for the first,
I have no name for this baby of ours.
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