The Fisherman's Calendar by Yun Sondo - HTML preview

POKING FUN AT POETASTERS (Seven character)

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.