Moonlight Pear Blossoms (Sijo - Korean Traditional Song Poem)

Moonlight Pear Blossoms 이화(梨花)에 월백(月白)
Yi Cho'nyön (1269-1343)

Translation;

Moonlight white on white pear blossoms,
the Milky Way in the Third Watch:
how could the cuckoo know that spring suffuses the branch?
Love, too,
is like a sickness; I cannot sleep tonight.

The image in the background is actually of Plum Blossoms, from the Korean painter Yi, Yu-won (1814--1888)

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