Love Hair Poems

Breeze plays music upon your hair
Blowing it with a gentle wind,
I hear each strand that winds its tune
Of past, once you left behind.
If I could...

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Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed

made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...

to stave off experiencing getting
chilblains, goosebumps,
or subjected to...

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Somedays,
In the blue I am unhappy

Somedays the clouds are
Wrong

The mother-friend becomes
ugly

Somedays, I am a goose who would like
To be anything else

My friend says it best...

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Sharon
by Michael R. Burch, circa age 15

apologies to Byron

I.

Flamingo-minted, pink, pink cheeks,
dark hair streaked with a lisp of dawnlight;
I have seen your shadow creep
through eerie...

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Anxiety when there’s rain
For I know my hair will change
Reaching umbrella in vain
Onyx hair will bounce like spring

Putting in a lot of love
Uniquely owning my...

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raindrops fall in my hair, 
but there is no rain 
in my head, 
to convince me that the driest spot is the place I just...

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Six years ago, whilst touring England, we visited Anne Hathaway’s cottage,
In Stratford upon Avon, I saw William Shakespeare’s ghost.  Boldly I
Approached him, Mr. Shakespeare...

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Recently I found a big Koala 
Sitting in my lounge watching t.v
With fluffy grey hair and big round tum
He was cute as can be!

He didn’t...

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And make you locks of effort,
and give you some of my peanut butter after?
Three dimensional you saw me and him,
one siding loving and caring,
wasting gifts...

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I love every hair upon your head
Although you've hardly any left Fred
Oh, those silver strands
I stroked with my hands
Are appearing all over the bed.

I’m peeved...

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you remember that one time when ava fell off the swings and cut her knee?
how everyone laughed at her for her childish hubris in thinking...

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spun from silver threads their hair 
is twinkling with spirit light 
Glints that scintillate, with love 
Angel's hair a flow  

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I admire your peaceful ways 
The way you smile the way you pray
You admire my warrior spirit
I smile a while just to hear this

You are...

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Written 29 November 2023
Love Jones Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Karen Jones

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At the end of the day
With the chores all done,
The children cleaned
And put to bed.
My mother sat and brushed her hair.

100 strokes of each dark...

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