Late Catholic Poet and North Korean Defector Ku Sang

See Remembering Ku Sang, a Poet Who Found Eternity in the Ordinary and Poet shares gift of wisdom

Here's an example of the poet petitioning the Blessed Virgin Mary:

As you kept on at your son
at the marriage in Cana
until he changed the water into wine,
I beg you,
keep on at your son, our Lord,
like any human mother,
to straighten out our life in this world.

Here's another of his poems:

Mysterious Wealth

Feeling today like the Prodigal Son
just arrived back in his father's arms,
I observe the world and all it contains.

June's milky sky
glimpsed through a window,
the sunlight dancing over fresh leaves,
clusters of sparrows that scatter, chirping,
full-blown petunias in pots on verandas
all strike me as infinitely new,
astonishing and miraculous.

My grandson, too,
rushing round the living-room
and chattering away for all he's worth,
my wife, with her glasses on,
embroidering a pillow-case,
and the neighbors,
each with their particularities,
coming and going in the lane below,
all are extremely lovable,
most trustworthy,
significant.

Oh, mysterious, immeasurable wealth!
Not to be compared with storeroom riches!
Truly, all that belongs to
My Father in Heaven,
all, all is mine!

Ku Sang, resquiat in pace.