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This is a beautiful example of a Hyangga. You, sir, know your classical Korean poetry. Bravo!

• DonHopkins 1y ago
  何為吞蠅 蠅永同音一 化驚腸內舞 雙義笑開顏 歸路際無定 蠅永同音一 What is this “swallowing flies”? “Fly” and “shadow” share the same voice, always. In a flash it’s startled -- inside it dances like starlight. The double pun draws us to smile. Homeward the light finds no single course. “Fly” and “shadow” -- one and the same sound. 燕過非武裝地帶 鐵雲如網隔青川 碧波照影尋舊隱 長空一點寫歸年 寥寥邊聲人未到 惟有飛羽訴和平 Barn swallows slip over the de-armed border. Iron-barbed clouds fence off jade riverbanks. Green waters cast their shapes -- seeking the homes of memory. A lone dot in endless blue writes our season of homecoming. At the silent frontier no footsteps fall. Yet wings alone carry the plea for peace.
  • Igrom 1y ago
    This comment is the only hit in Google and Baidu for fragments of the poems. Z-Library also couldn't match anything to a book via full-text search. Furthermore, the translation has issues. For example: >化驚腸內舞 >In a flash it’s startled -- inside it dances like starlight. Where did "flash" (or "in a flash") or "starlight" come from? Neither appear in the line. You could maybe translate the line as 消化，它受惊而在场内飞舞: "digested, it is startled and dances in the intestines (~stomach)". But you generally can't tell with Classical Chinese without contextual research, since characters have multiple meanings. Where did the poems and translations come from?