A Beautiful Scene in the Sky

#2026-0507

The Couds

At the bend of

Meilun Creek,

afternoon light drifted

toward the sea.

In the eastern sky,

clouds gathered into mountains

in white and gray—

a narrow stream

flowing eastward

into a pale bay of light.

For a moment

the distant clouds became

the mountain village

of Nantou County,

where cedar shadows, rain,

and my unfinished youth

still remain.

I might have painted such mountains.

I might have sung among them.

But the poor learn early

how quickly roads can close.

So the years passed—

water leaving the hills.

And still, sometimes,

something wordless rises in me

like clouds forming

over unseen valleys.

Mountains. Rivers. Harbors.

Then silence again.

Perhaps that is enough:

to stand beneath the drifting sky

until some hidden landscape

begins to answer from within.

-- Written and illustrated by Mookoo Liang 

(Please refer to the photos below, which help to explain what I meant to say in this free verse!)

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