Friday, April 01, 2005
Classical Korean Poems - 시조 모음
Boy
Everywhere the sad autumn drops like maple leaves,
yielding its place to the spring. The sky
spreads beyond the branches. As I gaze at the sky,
a blue pigment dyes my eyebrows. When I touch
my warm cheeks, a blue dye stains my palms.
I look at the palms again. A clear stream
flows along the palm-lines, reflecting a face
sad as love -- fair Suy's face. Enraptured,
I close my eyes. The clear stream still
reflects the face sad as love - fair Suny's face.
by Dongju Yun
-- From "Best Loved Poems of Korea"
at UCB East Asian Library (PL 984 E3 B4 1984 EAST)
Everywhere the sad autumn drops like maple leaves,
yielding its place to the spring. The sky
spreads beyond the branches. As I gaze at the sky,
a blue pigment dyes my eyebrows. When I touch
my warm cheeks, a blue dye stains my palms.
I look at the palms again. A clear stream
flows along the palm-lines, reflecting a face
sad as love -- fair Suy's face. Enraptured,
I close my eyes. The clear stream still
reflects the face sad as love - fair Suny's face.
by Dongju Yun
-- From "Best Loved Poems of Korea"
at UCB East Asian Library (PL 984 E3 B4 1984 EAST)
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