Prompt: On Beyond-the-Clouds Temple

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It is National Poetry Month here in the United States. To celebrate, every prompt this month will be a poem. This week's prompt is by Xue Tao, as translated by Jeanne Larsen:

On Beyond-the-Clouds Temple

I have heard of the moss
at Beyond-the-Clouds:

where winds blow high,
where sun is near,
it’s free of the finest dust.

When level cloudbanks splash
their dye
on the Lotus Wall,

it seems to wait for a poet
and for the jewel moon.

You have until midnight your time on Friday, April 10, to answer this prompt. Please post your fills of the prompt as separate entries to the community (i.e. not replies to this entry), tagged with the prompt tag. You may post multiple standalone drabbles per entry in addition to drabble sequences and series.

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