Your Pilgrimage Poem by Ko Un

Ko Un

Ko Un

North Jeolla Province / South Korea

Your Pilgrimage



A slower pace, a somewhat slower pace will do.
Of a sudden, should it start to rain,
let yourself get soaked.
An old friend, the rain.

One thing alone is beautiful: setting off.
The world's too vast
to live in a single place,
or three or four.

Walk on and on
until the sun sets,
with your old accomplice,
shadow, late as ever.
If the day clouds over,
go on anyway
regardless.

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North Jeolla Province / South Korea
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