Love Is -
...love is a biscuit –
spread with jam or dunked in tea
according to mood//
love is a hairnet
catches stray strands to hold them
gently, and softly//
love is a mirror
reflected affinity
in e...
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Categories:
hairnet, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Haiku
Strings
...She carries home onions in a string bag.
She walks in time-dinged tweed and wilted woolens
She is of age and does not count her days.
She knuckles cords of twisted tendons.
She treads low-heeled ...
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Categories:
hairnet, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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:
hairnet, beautiful, best friend, butterfly,
Form: Free verse
Wedding Day Love Sonnet Bride
...Stood Barefoot
In a Hairnet and Curlers
Starring at your Wedding Dress
I don't care if it is Unlucky
To see my Bride before the Wedding
Because for me
I simply can not wait for...
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Categories:
hairnet, love,
Form: Free verse
Much Ado About Nothing
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Just picture this:
Our solar system with it’s Sun and its planets
The delicate dance around that the planets do
Now imagine an incredibly massive hair net
That holds all together like c...
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Categories:
hairnet, adventure, analogy, humanity, science,
Form: Imagism
Aunt Ruth
...Aunt Ruth came to the door in her housedress and hairnet.
Her dark hair cropped short allowing only the smallest curl to float free.
It was right in the middle of her forehead. A spit curl I think ...
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Categories:
hairnet, anxiety, family, i miss
Form: Free verse
No War Only Peace
...Awaken to the of birds chirping; the sound of peace,
All strife has passed and all war has ceased...
A massive tension has been released
Every man, woman, and child out of the belly of the beast
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Categories:
hairnet, absence, addiction, rain, soldier,
Form: Free verse