high(er) learning
students
finding their way,
place in this world
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high(er) learning
students
finding their way,
place in this world
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acceptance
withing black classroom
sitting silently
jade student
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adaptation
learned pupil
embraces education
and its
never-ending cycles
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arise
emerald dragon
relinquishes
awakening elixir
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chaperone
great tigers
watches over
sleeping monk
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declaration
with finesse –
serpentine pond
distributes collected rain
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spontaneity
dispersed
upon rocky bed –
emerald islands
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allure
decadence green-bed
attracts
villainous-saints
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reception
with welcoming smiles
natural florists
embrace fine greenery
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irrefutable
investigative jaunt
through
green Kyoto
reveals
concrete evidence
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