The Orchid Door: Ancient Korean Poems by Tr. Joan S.Grigsby - HTML preview

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Thinking of His Country’s Woes

Yi-I.




Three moons have faded since I told my soul

This sorrow cannot see another moon.

But spring came and the withered grass was green,

Came yellow violets and a later moon.

The great rains fell. The mountain torrents roared.

Then, in the hush that follows after rain,

Green frogs sang shrilly in my garden well.

But, still, tears fall.