Korean Poem "Until Peonies Bloom"

a peony and a bee

Korean Poem 

"Until Peonies Bloom"

by Kim Yong rang(1902~1950)

Kim Yong rang, whose real name is Kim Yun Sik

The birth place of him is in Jeollanam-do Gangjin

Until peonies bloom

I just go on waiting for my spring to come.

On the days when peonies drop, drop their petals,

I finally languish in sorrow at the loss of spring.

One day in May, one sultry day when the fallen petals have all withered away

and there is no trace of peonies in all the world, my soaring sense of fulfillment crumbles into irrepressible sorrow.

Once the peonies have finished blooming, my year is done with; 

for three hundred and sixty gloomy days I sadly lament.

Until peonies bloom

I just go on waiting 

for a spring of glorious sorrow.

Beautiful Korean Poem 

"Until Peonies Bloom"

by Kim Yong rang

Korean Poem "A Geomungo"

▶ A Geomungo ◀

Korean Poem

by Kim Yong rang(1902~1950)

Kim Yong rang, whose real name is Kim Yun Sik

The birth place of him is in Jeollanam-do Gangjin

While the year has changed twenty times
my giraffe has stayed
leaning against the black wall,
never able to sing.

The hand of the old man that
once plucked at its heart now occupies a lofty place
in endless banquets above, while you, lonely giraffe,
here below, seem almost forgotten now.

Outside are wild lands where packs of wolves roam,
groups of apes gambol, only human in appearance,
so there is nowhere my giraffe can lay
its heart, rest its body.

Once more the year has changed,
still leaning against the wall,
the door shut tight,
tonight again my giraffe is unable to sing freely.


















"A Geomungo" The Poem of Kim Yongrang, is singing likened to Geomungo also not afford voices crying with confidence the gloomy of freedom the era that had received suppression of Japan colonial era when it was published in 1939.