Long Hairdresser Poems

it feels good to escape
with authors and poets
and dream up new places
with tales that are spun.

but sometimes what's real
and sometimes what isn't
encroach on each other
and read just as one.

such are the worlds
of rhyme but no...

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~Conversation With My Broken Heart~

Since I woke up today my heart has been complaining why 
lately I am tormenting it, why cant I leave it alone, why am 
I pushing it to the limit of...

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Jolly Polly Sue Conner was her name, and she came
from the grand old town found just outside of Harvest Oak,               ...

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You ever had a day off from work where God placed it upon your heart to go walking with Him? Well, I did just that today. I started my walk in this beautiful subdivision. After...

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Beauty shop smells insult my nose.
The bleach, the lifters, the perm solution.
They all smell bad.
I could not work here for two seconds.
A child behind me is playing a video game.
The volume is up, in my...

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The Thoughtless, Heartless, Do-Nothing Congress


Another day of carnage
In the USA
Little children
Eight, nine, ten and eleven years old,
Their life cut short,
By a mad person
With an automatic rifle
What will we all do?
Every week
More innocent people are
Victims of...

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Front door brings in nippy chill, 
You step onto the frosty path, 
No pleasant air for you to initial, 
Only a gut fight with the waft.

But friends are warm and bright, 
Neighbours smile by their...

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Covid rules explained 

About the covid 19, in case things don’t seem clear
This is what we need to do, so we don’t live in fear
We can mix with different households, as long as we’re not...

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They Caught Me Young


The first cut is a cut so deep-
Internalising this impression
Has made me stir and creep
With invariable precision!

Great Writers caught me young
Whilst an exploring youth.
Leaning on the sublimely tongue
Exorcised my being uncouth!

Teachers, too,...

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Morning

She would chat and then nod as she washed
And laugh as she dried and then curled
But behind all the smiles that were wide, fixed and false
She felt challenged and alone in the world.

She felt angry...

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I once dated a weatherman
At first he had a sunny outlook…
He had our future all mapped out
But he suffered periods of deep depression so our relationship got rained off

I once dated an optician
He said he...

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by Robert (Bob) Moore © 2015

I used to get my haircut, at the local RSL
Gunther was the Barber, he knew my hair real well
for 20 years he cut it, short back and sides or trim
whenever...

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You can be anything, but you must try,
So never give up, REACH for the sky.
You can be a sailor or a pirate at sea,
And catch all the fish in the ocean for tea.
You can be...

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My husband...

     has never minded
           eating a vegetable he doesn’t like
          ...

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My alarm clock was set to go off at eight
When I lurched out of bed oh heck I was late
Forgot to move on the clock for an hour
I was late for work – no time...

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Being together is not living glued ...
      It is not to require constant presence,
     It's not talking constantly ...
      Being together when always
       possible to be together ...
       Have lunch, dinner and appreciate
        the moments together ...
       Lie in the same...

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Baltimore Tales


lazy fat cat meowing, begging for a meal,
mother baking cookies, grates an orange peel. 

husband’s belly flopping, cold beer in his hand,
watching Jimmy Kimmel, singing with the band.

little Susie playing, with her pregnant worn...

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A Shaggy Tale
By Jan Beaumont ©

My hairdresser - like me -
is still on lockdown
My image in the mirror's
made it crack
I'm thinking I should go 
into the bedroom
Turn the lock and stay there 
till she's back.

I...

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I watch women leave with assorted bodies, bulky purses, proudly displaying their newly-done up rainbow hair, blue streak hair, purple yarn hair, six braid in a bush hair, beaded, feathered and flowered hair. 
 ...

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It's nice just lazing out here in the sun.
I'm getting on in years, so they tell me.
Touching 50[6 really] and hoping for a few more.
My brother, Levi, like me, was adopted.
He's half my age but...

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A friend advised "Cheer up, buddy, and don't be blue",
strange of him to say that just when I was feeling low.
I was thinking, what was so colorful about being sad,
only showed his English vocabulary was...

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In a town in southern Ohio
Lived a man called Crazy Harry.
A weathered, old soul, all alone
To children he appeared scary.
He had had a habit every midnight
No matter the happenstance,
He climbed a hill behind his home
And...

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My husband... has never minded
    eating a vegetable he doesn't like
        just so they will eat theirs...

Or eating half smashed, soggy potato chips
  ...

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Everybody's laughing at me,
And as usual I know why,
I look like such a loser
With this streaky blonde hairdye,

Why Mum couldn't take me to
The hairdresser, I'll never know,
Instead she got back from work early
To personally have...

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The Termination

Hallo Ann, let me tell you about your mother,
she was younger than I and a dancer 
She got a job dancing at a club in Madrid
alas, she was pregnant, that would not do
a doctor, was paid well and your...

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