The Literature Translation Institute of Korea introduces short pieces written by Korean poets.

As the Spring Wind Blows

As the spring wind blows
ripples smile

and as the spring wind blows
from a cave a snake emerges

and as the spring wind blows
the base-stone is loosened

and as the spring wind blows
incurred debts are repaid
new debts made

and as the spring wind blows
ghosts loiter

and as the spring wind blows
starlight moving away
from the world’s two green eyes.

By Moon Taejun




Book of Bamboo 1 – Journey

From here, - far
aboard the azure train
every carriage in deep night
to the village where bamboo flowers bloom,
it takes one hundred years.

By Seo Jeong-Chun




Pebble

Seated back resting on a cool wall
audible to my thinned ears

raindrops falling in the cold wind
from the eaves of a mountain village earthen house

winter snow skirting a walled path
makes way for new shoots and, minnows

spring light black-pupiled
a pebble glistens sprouting sound of breath.

By Choi Dong-Ho

*Article from the List Magazine published by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea