Straight Hair Poems | Examples

These Straight Hair poems are examples of Hair poems about Straight. These are the best examples of Hair Straight poems written by international poets.


Premium MemberHearth, Hair and Heart

   I don’t want to ‘curl up with a nice book by the fire
       on a long, cold, snowy winter’s night’

   No! I want something riveting
       a story with some punch! to challenge me
           and my prehistoric convictions

    Can it sit me up straight in my chair, 
        hair, not hearth, on fire? If not, count me out
            ~ my heart's not retired


Premium Memberhair

individual
suited to your taste
shocking or simple
Yule Brenner shaved
beauty shop Bertha

mohawk friendly
fixed and fancy
pony tails
curly or straight

beads and bows
one lone braid
pigtails

messy
coiffured

hair

Premium MemberThe Day He Chose

Where wall meets ground
and nothing's round,
by God's design
on that straight line
a lizard's found. 

Where wind blows air,
a child's gold hair
flies all around - 
a princess crowned
laughs without care.  

Nobody knows
where the time goes.
On that day, fair, 
a boy was there,
the day he chose.

Premium MemberMy Hectic Hair History

There’s a nadir of personal despair -
In feminine terms it’s - No hair, no flair! 

My hairy genes caused me lifelong distress,
I longed for a look I didn’t possess.

I daydreamed of golden locks as a girl, 
Blessed with neither a wave nor with a curl. 

Straighter than hay mine hang in disarray,
Cradle to coffin - lifelong bad hair day. 

And so pertaining my hapless hirsute 
I was braided, I ironed in my pursuit. 

Slept with hard rollers, a perm I did try, 
And lots of hairspray, that’s how I went by. 

In vanity’s name I bent backwards in vain 
Since straight and straighter my old locks remain. 

No quiescent coiffure is meant for me - 
Distressing tresses are my destiny.

Premium Memberpink hair made sense in the fifties

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 to match their pink car and luggage
I stare at the art; remembering my youth
Thinking pink hair made sense
it did in the fifties.


Premium MemberCurly's Twirly

Curly's twirly
  frizzy's dizzy
Straight ain't crazy
  wavy's straight

Hair can define
  personality
Even predict
  sexuality

Premium MemberWhen Papi Combed My Hair

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 cereal would do.
She claimed that it would make us strong
and help with grades in school.

We would hurry to be dressed
before we were told twice.
The morning ritual would always begin
with Papi and his coffee.

We would sit very still daring not to move,
as he plastered our hair with some Dixie Peach.
He combed every strand of our long curly hair,
before pulling it back as straight as could be.

In a pony or pig tail and tight as it could be
For as long as I remember, I will always miss you see
The time that Papi combed my hair
When a child I used to be.

Premium MemberSue's Curlicue

There once was a cute little girl named Sue
Smack dab down her forehead, a curlicue
   She so much wanted straight hair
   She planted an iron there
Now, instead of hair, she's got barbeque

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