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Morgan’s Essay 009 – Hubei: Red Cliffs


Barges on the Yangtze River near the Wu Gorge — photo by Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK, accompanying poem "Morgan's Essay 009 - Hubei: Red Cliffs"
Photo: Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

A feathered fan and silken scarf, a dream of mortal life,
The rolling Yangtze River glows red in sunset light.
So many poems and essays sing of the Three Kingdoms,
A thousand years of past and present, all within the painting.