tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post4768588454080384306..comments2024-01-26T21:38:25.924-08:00Comments on Duane's PoeTree: Vernon Mooers writesDuanesPoeTreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407624264627208128.post-31373838072244683802018-12-14T17:01:39.747-08:002018-12-14T17:01:39.747-08:00Haeundae is a 1.5km long beach in the eastern part...Haeundae is a 1.5km long beach in the eastern part of Busan, Korea. It takes its name from Haeundae takes its name from <br />Haeun ("Sea and Clouds"), the pen name of 9th-century scholar/poet Choi Chi-won, who admired the view from the beach and built a pavilion nearby. He engraved a piece of calligraphy on a rock there, which still exists. Among his few extant poems is one he composed on his way home after serving as an official in China:<br /><br />I ask for the ferry that will take me across the river....<br />The traveler's road, rain falling upon the river;<br />My former home, dreaming of return, springtime beneath the sun.<br />Crossing the river I meet with fortune the broad waves.<br />I wash ten years of dust from my humble cap strings.<br /><br />Though he was a noted Confucian scholar, he spent his final years in retirement at Haeinsa, a Buddhist temple on Mt. Gaya where his brother was abbot. His straw slippers were discovered at the edge of the forest there after he ascended into the heavens as a Daoist immortal.DuanesPoeTreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17053093400086634552noreply@blogger.com