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The poem is actually two answering poems composed to the same rhyme (un/kun). Tones do not match.
Kim Sakkat intruded into a poetry contest in the Diamond Mountains. The guests composed a poem to show him he wasn’t very welcome. Kim Sakkat, using the same rhyme, wrote an answering poem, turning the satire back on his would-be abusers.
The Guests:
It’s hard for grass to sprout from a rock;
clouds don’t form within a room.
What’s a bird like you doing on this mountain;
why fly in where phoenix frolic?
Kim Sakkat:
By nature I’m a heavenly bird,
always to be found among rainbow clouds.
Wind and rain were fierce tonight;
I fell among a brood of wild fowl.