Pain Hair Poems

I thought to change one hair tonight
from white to black, atop my head. 
It seemed a try would be alright 
while lying here upon my...

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You say you're old, but I don't see it
Your wrinkles are just lines of wisdom
Your hair is not gray, but silver
Your eyes are not dull,...

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Warm chair
Hot seat

Phosphorus on a stick
Match maker

Rocking chair on wheels
Rock n roller

Stretch musicians
Elastic band

Scissors 
cutting edge

Encore
Repeat performance

Oil painting
Slippery brushstrokes

Damaged incarseration
Jail break

Thumbs up 
Digital direction

Tangled hair...

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She wears many colors in her hair
Though some laugh at her, she just doesn’t care
The rainbow is her crowning glory
For her life once was a...

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I would fly down the cement sidewalk,                  ...

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As a small boy
the barber would sit me
on a wooden bench
placed across the armrests
of his chair. 
Mirrors in front and behind
imprisoned countless copies
of me stretched...

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The pretty red hair girl
at the Houston Station
gave me heart palpitation,
but she got all my revered admiration...
because she resembled a Barbie doll;
and I became so...

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It makes me ill just being around you as you leave me for the millionth time 
The final straw was pulled and every straw you...

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I was named Paulette,                     ...

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Rubik's Cube, I am so square 
use me to have some fun
boys and girls of all ages love me
i will make you pull your hair...

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Sonnets LII-LX

The Endeavors of Lips
by Michael R. Burch

How sweet the endeavors of lips: to speak
of the heights of those pleasures which left us weak
in love’s...

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Remember that singer, Art Garfunkel
He developed a painful carbuncle
   Got down on his knees
   Said, 'Don't lance it, please'
The mere thought...

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Rapunzel
by Michael R. Burch

Regret,
a bitter
ache to bear...

once starlight
languished
in your hair...

a shining there
as brief
as rare.

Regret...
a pain
I chose to bear...

unleash
the torrent
of your hair...

and show me
once again?
how rare.

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Today started with a new grey hair.
I find myself enjoying the air.
I think about what I'm going to do.
Not like a young man would do.
Irony...

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Come As You Are
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Come as you are, forget appearances!
Is your hair untamable, your part uneven, your bodice unfastened?...

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