Inspired by Lin Liang Feng - Winter

AnD artist, Lin Liang Feng, http://www.alivenotdead.com/linliangfeng, recently posted a series of paintings, one for each month of the year.  Inspired by those pictures, I produced a poem for each month.  First, the poems inspired by the pictures for January, February and March.

January

where does that lonely path lead uncoiling like a snake?

those bright leaves setting the trees ablaze will disappear one blustery night when lady moon runs her fingers through her hair

February

rock and water the rigid and the malleable

but rock yields to water’s run, the icy glacier grinds down intractable stone leaving only finest sand in its wake slowly steadily imperceptibly implacably the roof of the world will one day be a level plain; water has all the time in the world, its journey never ends

March

the forest rushes down the mountain side to greet its old friend hurrying past, but the river never wavers in its mad rush— singing to itself of ancient journeys and the little bird that splashed on its bank a moment ago