Page 20 • Meihao

Springtime and generosity are meihao

Mei is the character for “beauty”

Hao is the character for “good”

Loyal friends and lithophytes are meihao

Fruits are meihao

Next time you bite into a plum

Behold the sunset in its flesh

How openhanded they are

Serving beauty, sweetness and health

Sunlight is meihao

It does its job joyfully

Pouring across all bodies

Offering beauty and energy

A gifted painter is she

When mei rips itself apart from hao it’s

Foul personalities wearing beautiful faces

Painful poison hiding in summer blooms

Seasoned liars selling heartwarming truths

While the beautiful might contain goodness

Goodness always exuberates beauty

So, whose very being is meihao?

Where can we find thee?