LIFE Poem: Eyes of the Sun, by Shih-Min Sun

The seedlings
of the mountain, Bunohon

The ground flaring
Eyes of the sun enter
The dome
Giant trees
Splashing

Rippling, the forest echo
Sing to present and suspended
Songs had been heard.

The poem is based on: The legend of the Seediq—one of the Taiwan indigenous ethnic groups. In ancient times, a big tree grew on Bunohon Rock in the Ngungu dgiyaq silung mountain. Half of this tree is wood and the other half is rock. One day the man and the woman came out from the tree trunk. They are two gods and gave birth to many children of Seediq.

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