Ink Garden: Poems

Poems that resemble peace and rhyme with freedom.

Reviews

In the era of verbose, difficult, and selfish poetry, Ryu's poetry has a virtue. — Reader

If poetry is the process of verbalizing experience, Ryu's poetry is most genuine. — Park Deok-gyu

The song of a free, untamable soul. (The Joongang Daily)

Inside the Book

I lost the path leading to the world and

followed the one into books instead.

It led me to a quiet place.

I’d rather stay here, for a lifetime.

There was a girl who dreamt of

a garden made of ink.

She did not forget the dream for

several lifetimes and

wrote it down in her first diary of

each life.

Leaves bud on a tree drawn in ink.

A bird sits on a branch.

About the Author

Alexandria Ryu travels the world and writes about what it tells her. She was born in a deep mountain village in Korea. She was submerged in green and breathed it as she grew up. Green became part of her soul. Now she writes about it in her diary as poems. Ink Garden is her first poetry collection.