Poems are coming back to me.
I had a taste for them when I was young ,but I lost it after I found that my poems took too long a time to wirte.
Now that I am reading poems again, I think of reverance.
Though it is not the same in the Americas, Korea and adjacent east-asian countries resrve a reverance specially for poets.
Poets, be they unknown, poor, or hard to look at, are respected as the pilars of society or the beings that help the pilars stand.
I also had, have, and will keep this respect for them.
But, what concerns me is that people other than poets write poems and resonate people's hearts just as professional poets do.
But, are these 'psuedo-poem-writers' given the same reverance?
As much as people writing poems for their life, such as Yaets, are devoted to the poems they write, others writing peoms also devote theirselves to their works.
Reverance should not come simply with titles but rather with what we do in life.
Nice to see a pic of Park Kyung Nee (?) there. Her museum in Wonju is awesome. As for the point about becoming a poet, the same can be said for art. Why does Picasso's red smear on a canvas qualify as high priced art while mine doesn't? Because he has a body of work that I don't. Poets, for the most part, don't just write one poem and get famous. They write thousands, and gradually increase their style and following until they can get away with murder (The Red Wheelbarrow and The Grasshopper, for instance).
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