Long Coifed Poems

Gathered in the shade of her quaint little garden, 
 where a trellis was woven with rose climbing vines,
   something enchanting, had been deftly designed, 
     on an ordinary...

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(continued from part 1)

What is innocence
that little boy
whose pulling his toy 
with it’s broken wheel
Do you think he doesn’t know that the price of that crack needle
Could buy him a meal?
Do you think he doesn’t,...

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OldSockFable 
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 One old sock afforded free the one they thought the drier ate the one they 
dropped by accident the basket overflowed in haste of want to escape...

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I'll begin my dot-to-dot journey at first light
when dawn paints the sky after darkness of night.
Dots like stars on the horizon will be pearlescent hues
all interlaced with shades of pastel lavenders and blues.

From that mark...

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Just as days long ago, when decorum resolved, 
before composure, and poise,.. were corsages, unknown
Where propriety mattered, and was favored as gold,
high society, has gathered to flavor their tea
      ...

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Music echoes through the halls,
climbing stairs, and gilded walls.
Our lovely lass discreetly swoons. 
With longing eyes, she scans the room.

Young ladies dressed, in gowns, divine,
are coifed, and rouged and powdered fine.
Their dancing partners, starched, refined,
drink...

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Inside a bamboo garden, where I followed a red-crowned crane 
an exotic treasure of another sort held me spellbound 
seated upon the lawn, a courtesan beauty there did reign. 

Guilty, I stood beside a Lychee...

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The Senior Prom was the social event of the school year!
I approached the occasion with great humility and fear.
Never knowing if I could get a date caused me apprehension,
But finding someone to go greatly eased...

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Country Cafeteria

		in Shelby County,
		Illinois, 1989

The two weeks
I spent in that small town
on assignment, I saw no blacks 
except for two older women 
regal in every way, 
hair coifed in silver gray,
working in the Country Cafeteria.
They...

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Cooped in a bedroom
Somewhere nestled deep in London
The scattered leaves; naked in their stargazing
Catching precious fragments of air 
Skeletal between wind and water
Let them litter the street with their extroverted intentions
Cooped in a bedroom
A small...

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into the night's dwelling
things are they way they used to be
only more perfect, 
and even if I lean into the dark hall 
there are stars in my eyes, that keep alive the myth
and we are...

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They delight in wearing women’s fancy dresses
Intricate wigs fashioned as highly coifed tresses,
Padding in places gives them feminine curves
Appearing like that would shatter my nerves.

Entertainers par excellence, they can lip-synch
While dancing in a line together...

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Where are your upstairs friends?
The coffee break girls;
Credit card tight,
Newly coifed,
Numerously heeled
And 
Playing a little material bridge.

Where are the elevator girls?
Those check booked cynical
Fifteen minute friends.
The boss kissers;
Union mothered now
Skipping rope in third grade circles.

Are...

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they were like-lightning to close churches
and quick to reopen taverns and nail salons
keep us 90 proof pacified and coifed 
there's incentive to claim covid the cause of death
millions to be made from testing kits -the...

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My goodness, 
I’ve been handled by the best of people
And the worst of people,
the purity of my crisp white borders
has been eroded by the sweat of wily men. 
The hem of my petticoats 
marking the...

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She moved like a powerful jungle cat
With violet eyes and coifed raven hair
Her ruby lips matching her silken hat
Fleeting the breathless hoards without a care

Flowing taffeta and stunning diamond
She ruled the crimson Hollywood carpet
Perfect skin...

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