Snowed In With Guo Xi
Guo Xi was a Northern Song Dynasty painter, known for
ethereal landscapes of mountains and rivers.
"Snow Mountain" near the north window,
The view unchanged for a thousand years,
And all day and night heavy snow settling
Where it falls, filling furrows and leveling
The slopes from where the lower boughs
Of pines are leaning against them as though
New roots are needed to bear such weight,
And when it finally almost stops the wind
Lifts the last into a mist fine as chalk dust,
Distance and definition erased , all simplified
Into a landscape even I could paint, leaving
The canvas blank but for a few brushstrokes,
Calligraphy of bird tracks making the poem.
Poetry by countryfog
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Written on 2013-03-26 at 15:49
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