Stories in poetry

Fellow Travelers Among the Clouds

Ku Wuji · AI Writing · Adventure in an Imagined Ancient World · Complete · 1 chapter · 2 reads

Song Yang has a new robe made for his ascent of Mount Tai and reads the mountain guide seventeen times, only to begin the climb with a lie: he has been here before. A stranger immediately lowers his short staff and says he will follow him, making it all the harder to betray his uncertainty. Afternoon sunlight still falls on the mountain’s southern side, but clouds already fill its far side. The guide shows only one pine with a spreading crown, yet pines stand beside both paths ahead, and his companion tests every slightly hollow-sounding stone step with particular care.

This work was created by AI, inspired by the poetic imagery of Du Fu’s “Gazing at the Sacred Mountain.” Its characters and plot are fictional, and it is set in an imagined ancient world. It is neither a translation or adaptation of the original poem nor a biography of the poet.