electric zap from hairbrush
...I remember brushing my hair in the dark
hearing the electricity zap
my twin and I used to touch the air, getting shocked
laughing about it
this was enormously fun when we were ten...
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Categories:
hairbrush, hair,
Form: Free verse
ODE TO THE BALD AND BEAUTIFUL
...He primps that dome like it’s his crown,
A shiny orb, the talk of town.
Shaves that bowling ball twice a day,
No rogue hairs dare to stay.
Refined olive oil, scentless, slick—
His scalp’s own ...
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Categories:
hairbrush, beautiful, fun, hair, hilarious,
Form: Ode
- When the Sun Goes Down -
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Embellished by the artist's
softest marten hairbrush
unfolds creatively on the canvas
The view that takes your breath away
when the evening sun is
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Categories:
hairbrush, beauty, nature, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Goodbye Norma Jean
...A photo on a dating site
How gorgeous that girl looked
By text we flirted all that night
And I was truly hooked
She looked like a celebrity
Like Marilyn Monroe
With sexy eyes and pouting lip...
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Categories:
hairbrush, girlfriend,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Day of School
...So this is it. It’s finally here.
Your last school day has come
No more morning drop offs
No more rushed school run.
No more sandwiches to pack
No more sports kit to acquire
No frantic sear...
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Categories:
hairbrush, 12th grade, graduate, high
Form: Rhyme
Dancing Fireflies Sing
...
A candy dish in cobalt glass
Reflecting temptations
Beneath the heavy cover
A hairbrush fuzzy with gray down
From the head it combed
On nights spent alone, awake
A cast iron skill...
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Categories:
hairbrush, grandmother, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
If Poe Failed To Revise
...Poe was always revising his prose between publications. Here are the longest extended versions of sentences he shortened for their final publication in his lifetime:
"We loved each other with a lo...
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Categories:
hairbrush, cat, fantasy, horror, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Hairbrush
...A small hairbrush
On a small shelf
Over her bed
We had talked together
The night before
Not about the weather
Hurricane
Raining; 40 days and 40 nights
Had we talked about the weather
W...
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Categories:
hairbrush, daughter, love, memory, mirror,
Form: Free verse
The Hair Divot
...after months
many moons
taking to my
hairbrush
pulling out
the hair that
my brush had
pulled out
from my head
and beard but
what to do
with it as it
seems a waste
to throw away
s...
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Categories:
hairbrush, muse,
Form: I do not know?
List of Things Packed For Trip To Nampa
...Leaving at midnight on a Greyhound, I'm excited I'll be seeing my baby sister's family for two days and watch my nephew perform in CATS. In my small safari travel bag, these things I have packed:
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Categories:
hairbrush, travel,
Form: List
The Purse
...Sometimes people ask me... What's in your purse...
So I tell them the best that I can...
Lipstick, chapstick, matchstick
What’s in your purse?
Billfold, change purse, money counter, and clip?
As...
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Categories:
hairbrush, beautiful, best friend, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Yucky
...Maybe, if I brush
My hair a certain way, then
Hide that bump right on my chin,
Or push my fingers
And pop it out, courage now
while I look for my hairbrush....
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Categories:
hairbrush, anxiety, conflict, courage, high
Form: Sedoka
No Fishing
...I rowed my boat
to my favorite spot
The water was cool
The sun was hot
I took my pole
And loaded my bait
Put on my hat
And started to wait
I hoped for a big one
Or so I thought
At the en...
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Categories:
hairbrush, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Part 2 You Have To Whistle
...Neither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young, thus learning you cannot trust your care-givers or anyone else.
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Categories:
hairbrush, child abuse, giving, i
Form: Free verse
Pastel Printed Peanuts Pronounce Pronouns Precisely
...Is the logic of a lioness the same as a dogfish? Or a display in a shop window of pretty pink kittens? Very definite is a definition of derived detail. Oh look over there. Quickly. The window in the ...
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Categories:
hairbrush, baby,
Form: I do not know?
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