Wind and Spring 바람 과 봄

Selected poems of Kim, So-Wol


Wind blowing in spring, spring blowing wind,
Wind blowing, shaking a tiny branch,
Wind shaking my breast, blowing spring,
Say it’s spring, say it’s wind, in this body of mine
Say it’s flowers or say it’s a shot of whiskey and weep

by Kim So-Weol   김소월 

[4/9/1921 Tong-a Ilbo 동아일보]

Cricket

Cricket

Howl of the mountain wind.
Drumming of the chilly rain.
At night when you talk
of the sorrows and joys of life,
The wine stall fire dies and
the cricket weeps.

Sowöl Kim Chöng-sik 1902~1934

귀뚜라미

산(山)바람 소리.
찬비 뜯는 소리.
그대가 世上 苦樂 말하는 날 밤에,
순막집 불도 지고 귀뚜라미 울어라.

소월 김정식 素月 金廷湜

Azaleas

Azaleas


When you go
sick of the sight of me
I’ll send you off quietly without a word

On Yaksan in Yŏngbyŏn
the azaleas
I’ll pick armfuls and strew them on your path

Your parting steps
please walk gently
on these blossoms

When you go
sick of the sight of me
my tears won’t fall though I die

So-wŏl Kim Chŏng-sik 1902~1934

진달래꽃

나 보기가 역겨워
가실 때에는
말없이 고이 보내 드리오리다

寧邊에 藥山
진달래꽃
아름 따다 가실 길에 뿌리오리다

가시는 걸음걸음
놓인 그 꽃을
사뿐히 즈려밝고 가시옵소서

나 보기가 역겨워
가실 때에는 죽어도 아니 눈물 흘리오리다

소월 김정식 素月 金廷湜