Nostalgia Hair Poems

I stare at the nostalgic art
It is straight out of the fifties
When women were dying thei hair
Turquois to match their turquoise car and luggage
Or pink...

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  One perfect hair
  on a head quite bare
    may seem unorthodox

  Yet it surely was
  for Dr....

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   I've never had a manicure
     and yet I'm still a man
   Though my fingernails are ugly
...

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One more thing, he told me
She rocks eighties hair
Eighties hair! I had to wrack my brain trying to remember eighties hair.
The second I saw her...

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Crewcuts, flattops, pompadours
  Cowlicks, ducktails, side parts
  Clean cuts, Ivy Leagues, slick-backs

  Where have all these hairstyles gone
  No longer do...

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A doff of the cap
  a tip of the hat
Nowadays 
  we rarely see that

It’s not that 
  men walk about
unhatted, uncapped

Rather,...

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

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My hair has always 
had a mind of its own
Stays doing whatever
it wants whenever 
it pleases
Just never bothers to do 
any of it, at my...

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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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i once
had a doll
whose name
was lulu
we
laughed and
played till I was blue
her   heart as big as a   cashew
never   did she...

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A lock of hair
  A torn shoe string
A rocking chair
  A wedding ring

A dial phone
  A worn headband
A xylophone
  An old...

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afro comb
and hair
the good old days



posted on September 12, 2018...

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I wake up in early morning light
While others breathe in their deep sigh
I kiss their hair 
And watch their cartoon blankets rise and fall
Did I...

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A sweaty summers’ eve
in reckless days of youth
Bar hopping with my buddy
Alas, closing time drew nigh
Reluctantly, we drove home 
in reverse…...

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it turns me on
as you walk along
it had style
 as you walk that miles
am aware
its hair care
alway ways won't you near
BABY I LOVE YOUR HAIR...

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