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To punish menfor their endless sins,god gave methis fair skin,this long black hair.Akiko Yosano
My hair from sleeping this morning
I will not comb out the beauty you made of it
Making a pillow with your hand.
Murasaki Shikibu
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Hair all tangled this morning -
Shall I smooth it
With spring rain
Dripping from the jet-black
Wings of swallows?
Akiko Yosano
A thousand lines
Of black black hair
All tangles, tangles --
And tangles too
My thoughts of love!
Akiko Yosano
Black hair
Tangled in a thousand strands.
Tangled my hair and
Tangled my tangled memories
Of our long nights of love making.
Akiko Yosano
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To my black hair
Comes wafted
The scent of lilies
Endearingly
Like the breath of a man.
Akiko Yosano
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Will he always love me?
I cannot read his heart.
This morning my thoughts are
as tangled as my black hair.
Lady Horikawa
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With not a thought
for my black hair's disarray,
I lay myself down —
soon longing for the one
whose hands have so often brushed it smooth.
Izumi Shikibu