Poet's words

Part 1
Crescent 15
About the First Kiss 17
Train 18
Supyogyo Bridge 19
Snow Buddha 21
I'll give you all 23
Crying Along the River 25
Landscape Sweet 27
Flower Falling Evening 29
30 to you
The heart in my heart is 33
Finally 34
Migrant Bird 37
Insubong 38
I miss the person I miss again 39
Rainy Person 41
Spring Snow 43
Shooting Star 45
Love 47
Even blades of grass have wounds 49
Sorry 51


Part 2
Love 55
What Love 56
Seolhaemok 57
Responsibility for Kissing 59
Flower 61
Knee 62
River 63
Walking on Water 65
I speak to the fish 66
ID photo 67
Desert Fox 68
Reason 71
My Way 73
75 to a friend
Stepping Stones 77
78 to the baby at dawn
Seonamsa Temple's fallen leaves go to Haewooso (81)
Stepping on the bonfire 83
84 So that no one is sad
The Person I Love 85
87 to Narcissus


Part 3
91 in my heart
Sending a letter on a snowy spring day 93
Unmanned Lighthouse 94
Reed 95
Young Camel 97
Blue Lover 99
101 in front of a bulletin board
To Love 102
Swing 104
Window 106
Swamp 109
Star 110
Vinyl umbrella 111
Another Waiting Letter 114
The Wind's Silence 115
Winter Night 117
119 at Unjusa Temple
Love Song 121
123 to the poor


Part 4
127 to see flowers
Lotus viewing 128
About Breaking 130
Thorn 131
Wound 132
For the Whale 134
Repentance 135
Stained Glass 137
If your heart has no home, 138
Dead End 141
Flowers and Money 142
rigid pine 145
Pebble 146
Brick 147
About the Beach 149
Meditation on Hands 150
Sitting on the railroad tracks 153
Lonely Letter 155
Star Path 156
Fallen Flowers 159
Stars Don't Cry 161


Part 5
Flower Fragrance 165
Poem on a Tree 167
About Trees 169
Chair of Forgiveness 170
Washing potatoes 171
Travel 172
Left-wing bias 173
Talking to a Dog About Life 174
Ruins 177
Lullaby for Mother 179
Father's age is 180
Portrait of the monk Beopjeong 181
Nun 182 riding the subway
A Short Letter from a Cricket 185
Regret 187
Let's meet on the first snowy day 188
The Longing Buseoksa Temple 191
Dawn Prayer 193
195 to you

Commentary: A Gentle Soul and a Loving Attitude · Moon Tae-jun 197

“Don’t cry… You are human because you are lonely.”
101 poems of love, comfort, and longing written by Jeong Ho-seung and illustrated by Park Hang-ryul!

Poet Jeong Ho-seung's anthology, "To Daffodils," which contains 101 of his most popular poems from the past 42 years, has been published by Bichae Publishing.
This is a revised edition of the poetry collection “I’m Sorry for Loving You” published 10 years ago.
The book includes the poet's representative works, such as the title piece [To Daffodils], [I'm Sorry], [At Unjusa Temple], [The Evening When Flowers Fall], and [Seonamsa Temple], as well as 32 new poems from the poet's new poetry collections published after 2005, including [Hug], [The Price of a Meal], and [Travel].
Here, 50 paintings by artist Park Hang-ryul, who brought elegant women to life with the motif of 'meditation', were added to complete the beautiful 'Anthology of Poetry and Painting'.
This collection of poems, intertwined with the joys of love and the sorrows of parting, the loneliness and enlightenment of life, will present a world of deep, quiet contemplation and lyricism, along with the fragrance of new spring.


Poet Jeong Ho-seung's poems encourage us to become travelers of love.

He tells us to go to the snow-covered, white-browed snow-capped mountains.
_Moon Tae-jun

In the commentary “A Gentle Soul and a Loving Attitude” included at the end of the poetry collection, poet Moon Tae-jun wrote, “The touching confession, ‘I’m sorry for loving you,’ is an expression of the will to protect love throughout.”
As a collection of poems that have been especially loved by readers among the poems that the poet has published over a long period of time, it is written in simple and popular language, but the lyricism within it is deep and solid.
This is why the seemingly beautiful but resolutely upright paintings of girls by artist Park Hang-ryul are particularly suited to the poetry of poet Jeong Ho-seung.
Divided into five parts, the book unfolds, and the reader will enjoy following the poet's gaze, which becomes softer and deeper as he moves from his inner self to his neighbors, from the love of his youth to the love of his life, and finally to contemplating how he views the world around him.


Poet's words

When we are hungry
You don't eat rice, you eat the rice bowl.
But many people are eating rice bowls.
Poetry is rice, not a rice bowl.
In the end, it's all about the human being
Rice called love
Pain is food… … .
That bowl of rice
Wrapped neatly like lotus seed in Park Hang-ryul's painting
I present it to you.
From far away
I hear the dawn bell of longing.

On a spring day in March 2015
Jeong Ho-seung