Memory Hair Poems

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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thick hair, no hair, wow
young man, then older man now ...
it snuck up on us





3/18/2023

Poetry form: Senryu

Photo credits:  Billion Photos via Canva Pro

At times...

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powdery snow-drenched
coldest in seventy years
eyes frostbitten from hot tears

frozen mustaches
stalactites dripping with chill
million ruble lunch to thaw...

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A lifetime passes
but she lives on, touchable now
only with mind-beams.

Walking through a cornfield together
seems like Elysium.
Imagination fills in the blanks,
her hand in mine
leads to a...

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As I walked on a lonely beach,
     I thought I spied a Mermaid--
But no, it couldn't be, I thought. 
Yet, drawing...

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Regarding Mirrors , a short poem

I cannot walk, so do not pass them.
Me unseen.
Only my iPad turns this  way,
But apparently doesn’t want to.
Me staying...

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"Crumbling is not an instant act..."
                   ...

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We don’t always agree but we always will be 

When she wears her hair up she wears her confidence all the way down, from head...

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I watch the storm gather in your eyes 
I hear the thunder echo in my mind 
The dark clouds gather around your hair 
Rain taps...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Sat to jot down limerick in log book
Inept to find my pen carried miffed look
Probed my mum who lay on bed
She guffawed and slapped my...

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Moonlit Rays Bounce On Jasmine Scented Hair

She first came to me in the setting sun
her long searching soul wondrously agape
that June night dancing having youthful...

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A dark day
a twisted sky
the lightning crashes
the rain falls in sheets
and I am alone
but for the memory of you
a soft curl of dark red hair
a...

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The Persistence of a Memory of Apricot Shampoo
by Michael R. Burch

For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved...
and...

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All Afterglow
by Michael R. Burch

Something remarkable, perhaps ...
the color of her eyes ... though I forget
the color of her eyes ... perhaps her hair
the way...

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