Poet's words

Part 1
The four seasons of my body

The scent of sunlight · Sunlight injection · Sad days · My body's four seasons · Beautiful time · Rainy days · Tinnitus · Medicine came to me · After the typhoon passed · One day, a conversation with a flower · Summer diary · Summer diary - the words of rain · Welcoming guests · Longing diary · Calling names · Dreams to dream again · Dream diary 1 · The way to heaven · Confession · Painful recent news · Happy recent news · In Gwangalli · Winter diary · In praise of ice · Eating green onion kimchi · Eating Matdongsan · Sending fish cakes · Friendship diary · Picking up fruit · Good, good, yes, yes

Part 2
Barefoot on the lawn

Sunlight Diary 2 · A Day of Laughing Alone · Thoughts on Heaven · True Comfort · Corona Quarantine Review · Washing Socks · Diary of a Sick Day 2 · Diary of Old Age · Diary of Farewell - To Sister Heo · The Country I Miss 1 · Mom · Barefoot on the Lawn · My Hobbies · Recent Happiness · Detoxification · Thoughts on Pain 2 · Farewell School · Sister Jeong-in · Diary of the Sea · The Country I Miss 2 · Dream Diary - Buying a Card · Dream Diary 2 · To the Butterfly on a Sad Day · Diary of a Painful Day · Blood Collection Diary · To Sleep · Diary of Prayer in Old Age · A Small Resolution · A Drop of Tears - On the 16th Anniversary of Mother's Passing Away · Diary of the Botanical Garden

Part 3
How are you?

Lighter and more light · In the hospital · How are you? · Prayer on a sick day · For the sick · When the heart aches · Thoughts on pain 1 · Unfamiliarity · Pain of parting · Meeting in tears · Lessons from wounds · After discharge from the hospital · For those who are sad · Ways of comfort · Prayer of the comforter · Sunlight diary 1 · New taste · Letter from a patient · Prayer of a patient · Prayer of a caregiver · Prayer of a doctor · Prayer when taking medicine · Diary on a sick day 1 · Words of gratitude

Part 4
Candle-lit morning

Autumn Letter · Candlelight Morning · Sickbed Diary 1 · Sickbed Diary 2 · Sickbed Diary 3 · Letter from a Sad Day · In the Vanishing Silence · Words Spoken by Rain · Forget-Me-Nots · At the Seaside · A Treasure · Words of Flowers · Journey · School of Life · The Power of Tears · Diary of a Rainy Day

Recommendation_ Hwang In-sook (poet)
Recommendation_ Yang Eun-ju (Cancer Rehabilitation Specialist)

For the sick who need a little comfort

Eight years after "When We Love Each Other, Spring Comes Anytime"
Sister Lee Hae-in's new poetry collection, "Lee Hae-in's Sunlight Diary," has been published.

Even if I'm sick, I won't be lonely
I made a decision without anyone knowing

Soothing the wounds
My hands were just shaking a little
It's been a long time in my heart
A bright flower lantern was lit
- Part 1 of "Diary of a Sick Day"

A new poetry collection by Sister Hae-in Lee, who has been conveying warm love by harmonizing her life as a nun and her thoughts as a poet, is being released after eight years.
As a 'poet of comfort' and a 'poet of healing', it contains one hundred poems polished like sparkling pearls that he gives to the sick.
“To those who toss and turn all day, unable to sleep, for some reason” (Poet Hwang In-sook, recommendation) The poet wants to reach out like a small ray of sunlight.
Even when faced with unfamiliar and strange pain, the poet's clear and beautiful words, as he looks up at the sky again, resolve that "even if it hurts, I won't be lonely," will light up "a bright flower lamp" in our wounds and sorrows.


Part 1, ‘The Four Seasons of My Body’ and Part 2, ‘Barefoot on the Lawn’ are composed of new poems written every day even during his illness.
In “the first encounter/of the silence of sunlight/of the meeting of sunlight” (“Scent of Sunlight”), the poet discovers “ample nutrients” to greet each morning anew, and furthermore, “begins a round love/with his neighbors” (“Sunlight Injection”). Although these are days of pain, the poet does not forget the joy of breathing, and that we can still protect each other.
Part 3, “How Are You?”, features twenty-four poems from the booklet “Small Comfort, Small Joy” published by Haein Publishing House, and Part 4, “Candlelight Morning,” features sixteen poems selected from previously published works.

“Give and take while living
In a word of greeting
“The great sea is surging”

Here is a concrete body that faces pain head on.
“Today/my face is particularly swollen/and I, a stranger, am awkwardly smiling in the mirror” (“Removing Poison”), and tears flow whenever I remember “my unknown friends/who are enduring inexplicable/pain” (“Pain Thoughts 2”).
There are more and more moments when I long for “an ordinary day with nothing going on” (“Painful Current Situation”).
But the poet knows that the pain that sometimes makes many things unfamiliar and unpleasant can ultimately become the strength to embrace a wider world.

I recognize myself
Get to know others
The joy of living together every day
So that I can be grateful again
(……)
Right here, right now
Thinking of heaven as something to enjoy in advance
I'm regaining my bright smile.
- "Thoughts on Heaven" section

With “beautiful words hidden deep somewhere” (“Rainy Day”), the poet calls out the names of all beings he encounters in his daily life.
I am amazed by “the dazzling miracle/that I embrace with emotion/the place and duty of my daily life/that I encounter again” (“Corona Isolation Review”) and write down “the list of my joys/that I continue to discover” (“Recent Happy Things”) as poetry.
For the poet, this life is a paradise enjoyed in advance, a school where he learns how to embrace his wounds and turn them into flowers, a pilgrimage where he reaches out to one another.
With “a cheerful innocence and the simple affection of a neighborly sister” (Hwang In-sook, recommendation), the poet invites us to accompany her.


I personally experienced that patience and humility are needed to stay by the side of pain and sorrow, while lovingly taming them rather than rejecting them.
“Wouldn’t it be a more beautiful consolation to tell those who are in pain all the time/to miss them as much as they want?” (“The Pain of Parting”).
Just by “praying steadily without being caught” and “laughing with him when he laughs for a moment” (“To the Sad”).
We can overcome this pain together.


“I am yesterday, today and tomorrow
I'll just confess that I was just happy."

He lived with one love letter
I hope someone remembers it that way!
- "Dream Diary - Buying a Card" section

In this way, the poet still lights a candle every season and writes us beautiful letters.
“I think of each guest with a different appearance/as a single flower” (“Welcoming Guests”) and embrace more people with my whole heart.
To those who are suffering in their own pain, the poet's letter, which says, "Life is a bit hectic because I'm always thinking about what to give" ("My Hobby") and "I pick up something all day long" ("Picking Up Fruit"), is in itself a small prayer and a ray of sunshine.


Until now, I have not forgotten “how many names I have called/lived and how many times/I have lived and lived while being called by names” and I “quietly nod to the names I know/and say I love them unconditionally” (“Calling Names”).
“Please let me live today as a pilgrim” (Confession) I repeatedly hope.
Now the poet sings.
"Even sitting still, I'll go far/With a life that never stops singing/I'll ​​become a humble fragrance" ("The Language of Flowers")

This collection of poems comes with a warm and strong love, and as a ray of sunshine for those who are hurting.
I hope that 『Lee Hae-in's Sunlight Diary』, released after eight years, will reach many people.

“When I open my eyes in the morning, I say, ‘I have to live another day,’ and when I go to bed at night, I say, ‘I’ve lived another day,’ and let’s go on our journey together while praying.”
― From the poet's words