승자 님,
Thanks for the wonderful poem.
As an avid mountain-lover, I agree with your kind loving thoughts toward mountains.
I always thought about them in terms of rocks, sceneries, and forbidding grandness.
I love them in the context of their magnificence and toughness.
I've seldom thought about them in the small warm loving details and "motherly" natures you wrote.
I guess, obviously, you see from a different directions than I do.
As I am getting into the old age, I should abandon my old views and then go with your directions.

Anyway, everything you said are so much true even today,
and they will be doing the same almost forever into the future, long after we all pass away.

Just wonder why you used past participle (or tense) sentences.
Is there some special meaning in them?
Of course, they are wonderful as they are and I know it's a poem.
Just curious...

Thank you for your kind comment, Web Master!
I wanted to express my thought and sentiment to the grand and beautiful mountain,
which almost like reverence toward the majestic mountains.
I hope I have many more opportunities to be in the mountains in future,
but I used the past tense because this poem came after our Yosemite hiking trip.
Also I thought it gives a better ring when I recited it.
I'd also like to mention that I am not the first one using analogy beteen Mountain and Motherhood.
A numerous sculptors created female figures and titled as "Mountain" such as Aristide Maillol,
Gaston Lachaise and Henry Moore.
While I was writing this poem, I thought of the image of my daughter-in-law feeding her baby.
How grand, how magificient and how beautiful she is!
But, as you said, it's just a poem, an unpolished one.

승자 선배님,
산이 품고 있는모든것를 
너무나 아름답게 쓰신 poem을 
다시 마음으로 느끼면서 많은 감탄사와 함께 
감사드립니다.

항상 한자리에 서 있는 산에대한 깊은 향수나 고마움도 
항상 변함없이 너그럽고 포근한 어머님의품에 대한 
깊은 그리움과 고마움처럼 영원한 것 같습니다. 
 
  

늘 섬세한 초미님,
저의 시심을 읽고 공감해 주시니 기쁩니다.
그래요, 산은 여인처럼, 아니 여인들은 원숙한 산처럼
생명을 잉태하고 nuture 하고 Unconditional love로 지켜 주고
산은 장엄한 산으로, 어머니는 자손들의 가슴속에...
덧글, 감사합니다.

산에대한 멋지고 훌륭한 詩作에 축하드립니다.

산에 오르는 이유를 '산이 거기에 있기때문'이라는 말같이
'산이 거기에 있었다'라는 詩題도 마음에 드네요.

산은 웅장하고 영험하며 어머님의 품과같이 포근하기도
하지요.   규정

 

Omnipotent You Are, Sungja-nim.

황선생님, 칭찬해 주셔서 감사합니다.
다리힘이 버텨 줄 때까지 뒤늦게 맛본 산을 가끔씩 찾고 싶습니다.

Dr. Bang, even though I can't agree with your compliment, I thank you.