Poem of Wang Xiangzhai

"My Art Breaks New Pathways
It Empowers Every Tendon and Fills Each
Bone with Wondrous Spirit.
Still as a Leopard Perched High Before His
Attack.
It Springs in Coiling Waves Like a Dragon.
It's Ch'i Makes a Long Rainbow that Touches
The Sun.
Wanting to Swallow the Whole World Into Its
Stomach.
Commanding the Wind and Clouds, Making
Dragons and Serpents Pale with Fear.
The Power of this Art Reverberates Beyond
The Heavens.
Felt From Afar as Men Hear Lightning and
Thunder.
It Exhales and Inhales an Etheral Air that
Envelops the Universe.
In the Great Kiln of its Fire All Creatures are
Remolded.
Heaven and Earth Recreated."


from Yp Dong. Still as a Mountain Powerfull as Thunder. Boston: Shambhala Publications.1993.

Colored Pencil on Paper