<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459784" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>She thought of plum-blossom; touched the strings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Posted: Mon Mar 02,2009 1: 34 pm Post subject: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">--------------------<br> <br>She thought of plum blossom, touched the strings </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Smiling gently in her mind <br>this mid-winter morning <br>at the thought of Spring </div><div style="margin:10px 0">she wraps herself in padded cotton kimono, <br>tiptoes through the snow <br>to the plum tree; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">touches so gently tips of twigs <br>where the buds, too, <br>warm at the thought of spring; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">then bends down, parts the snow <br>so carefully, <br>where the shoots of crocus <br>will soon pull aside the snowy duvet; <br>stretch; look coyly at the sun; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">returns in her own footsteps in the snow; <br>takes up the shamisen, <br>touches the strings; is about to sing; <br>instead she smiles; almost sighs, like a lover, <br>black almonds in the corner of her eyes; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">sounds of shamisen <br>can be heard in the garden <br>this winter morning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459784" data-title="She thought of plum-blossom; touched the strings de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Posted: Mon Mar 02,2009 1: 34 pm Post subject: -------------------- She thought of plum blossom, touched the strings Smiling gently in her mind this mid-winter morning at the thought of Spring she wraps herself in padded cotton kimono, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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