Long Split ends Poems

How am I supposed to feel, how should I feel?
Should this not hurt, should this be filled with joy?
A warm place is all I long for

Comfort & understanding

There's just something about it...when skin touches
Behind my...

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Earlier today April 4th, 2022,
which supersedes bald faced headlines 
pointing finger and 
Putin blame for Bucha killings
squarely on head & shoulders
of Russian autocrat, née
yours truly lathered 
his hirsute higglety-pigglety 
thinning oily tresses. 

Hark….the herald angels...

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January 24th, 2023 Hair washing heralds huge happening

Hark….the herald angels sing, and twitter 
for mass communication 
mediums stop the presses 
when I, a regular schlemiel 
take shampoo to mine matted mass mop 
(no less than...

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What shimmers yonder blowing in the wind
What smooth and glowing curls unfurl out there
Take wing in Spring like yellow gods spaghetti
Glowing with the morning sunbeams just beginning 

Pretty girls are a dime a dozen
Like street...

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Both time

&

Life is fleeting

Birth most certainly

Similataniously 

Also leads and ends in death

Like the winter climate in South Africa

Johannesburg specifically during Winter

As coming in the end of Autumnal May

When the Summer rains have gone and is...

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Her hair, blonde, is twisted in the wind.
The whipping strands are the colors
of the shinning cropland 

by which she is standing. She is alone 
by this golden feed that is bounteous; wholesome as breast milk,...

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so fragile we are---
broken eggshells on
the pavement,
split ends tearing,
puzzle pieces 
scattered all over the
place with no one
qualified enough to
put them together,
selves upon selves
upon selves upon 
selves, questions 
contradicting 
assertions & 
assertions wanting
to blot out any
further...

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She's the girl with no friends,
The one you made fun of for having split ends
When she used her haircut money
To buy something for her sonny
Because she loves him with all her heart,
Even if having him...

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When there's split ends in your friendships you should cut them off and that's what so many  
are doing. So many hardly talk to people they use to, people they chilled with used to...

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I’m chopping it off
All of it, you hear?
This long black hair
Down past the middle of my waist
Sleek and shiny with 
Past defects and 
Too many wasted bottles of shampoo
Trying to cleanse myself of my mistakes

It...

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dead ends and crop circles
split ends and dark circles
everyone thinks i'm a mirror
i'm not the mirror, you are

lock me in your basement
i've got a strange, sick craving
in the painting, the heads are above me
but it's...

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The distinct decade
Preceding my birth
Ecstasy and aids
Consumed this earth

They begged for pleasure
Pleaded for peace
Floated high as a feather
Then along came grease

A musical comedy
Featuring John
About a he and a she
Who’s fling was gone 

A romantic summer
Had...

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My first love - when we ended,
They told me to pray to God,
And that he would make time,
My new best friend.
And with the love I had for you,
The despair I would fall out of.
My second...

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anniversary, bird, change, courage, immigration, mystery, sky,
 'Geese' Hiaku: 'Ode to the Canadian Goose'!

Canada’s Geese © HAIKU

All Northern Geese ‘crop’	
Seasonal tour ‘reruns’ twice!
Returning again!


Flag-poled Staff © HAIKU

Two pilots each tour
One Canadian goose ‘flagpoles’ 
Two tails...

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Tall, naked trees
are slowly getting dressed
Tiny green polka dots adorning each appendage.
Strong winds force them into an unsynchronized dance
as the song turns to static in the switch of a dial.
The larger green polka dots weigh...

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Bleeding through the lime you show your true self
The well-being of others is not your concern but yours is theirs
You soak up the fifteen minutes of fame as if it were to last
Rumors flair from...

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Welcome to the real world
where Cinderella has six inch stilettos
and carries flat shoes just in case 
where Rapunzel is shaved 
or has short hair due to split ends
where sleeping beauty has mints
just in case you...

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Mama,you gave us brownskin that radiates the sunrise
We gave you bleached , scared and blemished skin 
You gave us thick beautiful hips and thighs 
We expose them and hide the beauty within 

Mama, you gave...

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The fireworks glaze the corners of my eyes
But I can't see, the bombs falling all around me
The rushing blood pumping through my legs
I can feel glaucoma coming with every scream

Grasping the chalky stone near my...

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god, tell me how we got
this far



the other side of i-love-you
flipped over, faced down photograph of spring
before pink bled into red?
I hugged cherry trees and dug fingernails
into thick bark, your sweater
rain-soaked wool



I gave you august
but...

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Checking all my emails is becoming quite a chore
my inbox piling up with offers I've never asked for
there's one here from a dating site that says I've got no friends
and one's a cure for balding...

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7 Haiku Geese

Canadian Geese do point
Fly in ‘V’ shaped directives
Past’s learnt directions!
….didee © HAIKU

*Arrow signs direct
Sky-masses of geese elites
Comings and goings!
…..didee ©HAIKU

*All northern geese
Bid ‘fly-byes’ seasonally
Spring and winter tours!
….didee  © HAIKU

Our geese have great...

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To prove that she just did not care
She tossed all her clothes in the air
Her father would scream
Whilst mum ate ice cream
And the postman sighed, "What a pair!"

Gummi Bare

Freddy had a rubber dolly
Designed to be,...

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Just Strands of Straw

I look into the mirror, 
my hair has dropped to the sink. 
It is a trail of tears, 
years of taking care of split ends, 
fluffing and drying, 
tying it up, 
leaving...

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