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Ten Korean Poems
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THE ARTS
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10 / 1989 |
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Translated by Graeme Wilson
Michael S. Duke is professor and head of the Department of
Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. |
Shining Morning
The lads have left for their bracken-digging.
Our bamboo-grove is empty now.
The chess-board lies there, tossed aside,
Its pieces scattered anyhow.
Knight-crooked in my drunken stupor,
How should I know if it's only day
Which fills me with this sense of shine?
Chong Chol (1536-1593)
Blind Luck
When I was a brat the liveliest fun
My gutter nature found
Was to follow the blind and hoot and clap
As they tapped their way around.
Yet now, when I come to think of it,
Isn't the laugh on me?
Would my guts have festered as they have,
Wouldn't my heart still be
Lyricsome-light had these damned eyes
Not seen what could but
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