School Hair Poems

Growing my hair down below my knees...

stimulated courtesy follicles,
where Coconut, Olive, Grapeseed,
Jojoba, Amla and Vitamin E oils
allowed, enabled,
and provided head start
germinating peach fuzz into brown...

Read More

Drowning in my own existence
Hating life 
But the ultimate passion
I had to have
No, I am not the problem
I won’t let you take my breath away
I...

Read More

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...

Read More

Every Spring there’s a battle cry 
from deep within the South;
It raises the hair of millions for miles;
Tempers rise and just continue to climb 
brushes...

Read More

Inextricably rooted with hair fixation

As a lad in grade school,
yours truly, (a diminutive, intuitive,
oversensitive, and vegetative potato head kid,
whose voice exhibited
a severe nasal twang)
felt envious...

Read More

I would fly down the cement sidewalk,                  ...

Read More

Back in 1984 when it was not the style,
I accidentally dyed my hair navy blue.
Walked into the beauty school.
They screamed with laughter.

This is what you...

Read More

at my school it's illegal to dye any part of your hair and you don't have rights at school....

Read More

I just finished flipping the calendar to March
I keep a paper one hanging on my kitchen wall 
despite everything being digital 
I’m old school some...

Read More

I was named Paulette,                     ...

Read More

It was a hot Sunday afternoon in Vienna, Missouri…

If I’da been a gentleman, I would a turned my back
When I got to the swimmin’ hole...

Read More

When I was growing up, the child I used to be
awakened every morning by the smell of his coffee.

Mami would make some breakfast
a bowl of...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

A poet may tear out his hair
  if he truly does care
to follow every rule
  they teach him in school

One foot too long,...

Read More