Shoots!
How tall,
and how long a bamboo
Will live up to?
A bamboo has its built-in sections all
Folded neatly in its shoots or genes underground
In Its sleeping, growing only 3 cents in 4 years
Like a cicada cocoon groping in soil, unfound
Then it pierces Out of earth to a spring call
Stretching out a whole meter overnight
In a forenight it reaches 20 meters in height
Oh!What a spurt! What a sight!
If you close in and listen
at the dead of night
You may hear
The crackling of its knots and joints
And feel the growing pain
Of stretching spine
As a seedling
Shoots up