Us Girls Live in a Fantasy
...Waist not an outfit, Barbie with her slip-on shoes,
fairy-belts; plush hair, sometimes in ponytails.
Forget-me-not her impossible figure. Why do some
suppose that Barbie should...
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Categories:
hairstyles, childhood,
Form: Free verse
If our hair was on trial
...If our hair was on trial
And it was called to testify
And tell the truth
Of what the world put it through
It tells the stories
Of all the hairstyles
That it was
It starts with when it was ...
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Categories:
hairstyles, color, hair, history, judgement,
Form: Free verse
The Deepfake
...The deep fake is running wild in the street, messing with the people you meet, it has turned my voice into a money making machine and exposed my well thought out dreams. Some things that I did not w...
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Categories:
hairstyles, america, betrayal, community, confidence,
Form: Narrative
Missing Him
...As The Rising Sun, The Dawn Came In Softly & Slowly;
&
So Did My Suffering.
Maybe Unexplained Or Unexpected Feelings;
Which Have Been Ignored;
A Sudden Melancholy Skulking In The Silence;
Awa...
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Categories:
hairstyles, angel, best friend, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Another Family Portrait
...Our family came together again yesterday, (which is the reason for this poem)
and, as is our tradition, we took a family portrait before everyone headed home.
Why do we take so many family portra...
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Categories:
hairstyles, family,
Form: Rhyme
50's Hair, If You Dare
...Crewcuts, flattops, pompadours
Cowlicks, ducktails, side parts
Clean cuts, Ivy Leagues, slick-backs
Where have all these hairstyles gone
No longer do the cute chicks fawn ......
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Categories:
hairstyles, hair, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
An Old Comb
...The old combs
Stay with me many years
Now I bought new combs too
But too lazy to use
I stay at home
Especially during MCO
I seldom use mirror or comb
I use my hands to comb most of the time
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Categories:
hairstyles, fathers day, life, love,
Form: Free verse
An Old Comb
...The old combs
Stay with me many years
Now I bought new combs too
But too lazy to use
I stay at home
Especially during MCO
I seldom use mirror or comb
I use my hands to comb most of the time
...
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Categories:
hairstyles, fathers day, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Madame Executive Executor
...Awake hair
hairstyles...
appropriate clothes
modeled...
Offered mouth,
painted...
hidden mistakes,
Clear Skin...
lively gestures,
rehearsed lines...
So she goes,
clearing paths,
she goes ...
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Categories:
hairstyles, allegory, allusion, analogy, extended
Form: Light Verse
Juvenilia: Early Poems Iv
...Juvenilia: Early Poems IV
I wrote this around age 17.
Bible Libel
by Michael R. Burch
If God
is good
half the Bible
is libel.
I read the Bible from cover to cover at age eleven, ten...
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Categories:
hairstyles, poems, poetry, poets, teen,
Form: Rhyme
Rejection Slips 3
...Rejection Slips 3
Rejection Slip
by Michael R. Burch
Whenever my writing gets rejected,
I always wonder how the rejecter got elected.
Are we exchanging at the same Bourse?
(Excepting presen...
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Categories:
hairstyles, death, desire, family, heart,
Form: Rhyme
El Dorado
...El Dorado
by Michael R. Burch
It's a fine town, a fine town,
though its alleys recede into shadow;
it's a very fine town for those who are searching
for an El Dorado.
Because the lighting i...
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Categories:
hairstyles, addiction, city, culture, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Oh My Child
...Oh my child...
Where is the chubby cheeked, innocent, wide-eyed toddler I swear was just standing in your doorway?
Oh my child...
Who is this beautiful young girl standing beside her handsome fath...
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Categories:
hairstyles, age,
Form: Ballad
Hype
...So many of us will sell ourselves for the "hype"
Just for a moment in the limelight
Selling their souls for minute of fame, just to see their names in the big bright lights
It can't be easy liv...
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Categories:
hairstyles, anger,
Form: Free verse
Pain In Variety
...We need a change in society
I'm seeing Heartbreak, backstabbing, Violence and Betrayal
People are full of hate, Drama, and don't know how to be faithful
We're dealing with pain in variety
New d...
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Categories:
hairstyles, deep, discrimination, encouraging, judgement,
Form: Free verse
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