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Goryeo sijo - Kyerang
Identifier
027067
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Kyerang had the pen name ‘Plum Window’ and was a famous entertainer from Puan, North Cholla versed in poetry, the black zither and dance. She left some seventy songs and poems in Korean and Chinese, but her collected works are no longer extant.
A description of the experience
KYERANG (YI HYANGGUM, 1513-1550)
Under a shower of pear blossoms
we parted in tears, clinging to each other.
Now autumn winds scatter leaves,
are you too thinking of me?
A thousand miles away,
only my lonely dreams come and go.