
It will be time
when the time is right.
Smell the blossom
It will be time
when the time is right.
Smell the blossom
a rose flowering,
and there is blood on my hand;
I will not touch it
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Two swans through the mist;
drops hang from dank bare branches
Crow’s caw breaks the gloom
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