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Seduction of the Lock

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 cars they pass by
But ugly Betty is on my mind
Her gentle smile is quite delicious
Dainty, even vaguely crooked from a distance
Yet serenely she walks down the street oblivious

Not knowing exactly what is on my mind, she blinks 
It's not what's in her head that peeks my interest
That excites my curiosity                   
I'm certain there's lots of air in there to spare
But what's on top, planted on that bulbous skull

Lovely women ask for money that is not mine
I have none to give at this or any other time
What causes intrigue is something other
One curl, one lock of hair from my ugly lover 
Is all I desire in this cruel and balding world
Is that too much to ask for in these desperate hours
Love has no split ends without desires spent  
What I would not give for one slice of it left to lament

My blade comes out of sheath
It doth not or does not speak
It craves something as much as I
Takes on a life of its own to slice
Enough!  Must we brake all laws of nature
Is theft of hair not criminal

Doth or does grammar have no say in such matters
Tragic, epic, done or simply uttered, thought or thunk
To see me through longer days or shorter hair cuts
Her hair and no other shampooed and showered
One strand of it so shimmering, so shiny, undone 
I pray for a peaceful day or night but neither commeth
One lock of gold hair so smooth would do
So shiny it actually shimmers as it glows
But no longer grows


Premium Member Under the veil of twilight, in the whispering pines

Under the veil of twilight, in the whispering pines,
Where the sweet rain drifts through the western air,
I find myself lost in the labyrinth of my own thoughts.
Hypocrite women, how seldom we express our doubts,
While, with doubt, we care for the man in his uncertainty,
High up, among the trees in the mountains, in the thick air of poetry,
A white sweating bull of a poet declares our s are ugly,
Why didn't we admit that we’ve thought the same?
And what shame? They are not for the eye!
No, they are dark, wrinkled, hairy,
Caves of the Moon...
And when a dark humming fills us,
A coldness towards life,
We are too much women to admit to such unwomanliness.
With wantonness, we play and plead with the psychopomp,
And say nothing of it later,
Our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them,
Like cut nails, like split ends of hair.
In moments of silence, when the world is quiet,
I wonder at the duality of our existence,
How we care and negate, love and loathe,
Lost in the labyrinth of our own creation,
Unable to speak the truths we hide so deeply.
In the shadows, under the mystical veil of night,
We are more than the sum of our parts,
More than the whispers of our doubts,
Yet bound by the silence we impose upon ourselves.
Here, in this sacred space of introspection,
Let us unearth the truths buried beneath layers of pretense,
Let us own our darkness, our coldness towards life,
For in admitting, we find the strength to transcend,
The courage to embrace our true selves,
Under the veil of twilight, in the whispering pines.
© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.

Inspired By Contest Where I Was In 70s

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 ended too soon
Though they found it, a bummer
They achieved fine tune

The smell of pot
Was an expected aroma
Not just in one spot
Everyone’s a stoner

Bell bottomed hippies
Wide eyed with split ends
The decade of groupies
And beginning Again

The world was flat
Or, so, many said
But where Was I at?
Before mom and dad met

Did I exist within him
Was I always his girl
Meant to be kin
When I entered this world 

It’s a fun scenario
But, flawed to the brim
Because anywhere he would go
I wouldn’t have been

I was somewhere with her
It has to be true
I’ve always preferred 
The things she would do

Perhaps, in a van
Headed to Cali
To take a stand
Join a rally

Or in grandma’s garage
On the green couch, with flowers
With mom’s entourage 
Laughing for hours

Or maybe I’m wrong
And I ceased to exist
The shot was long
But I couldn’t resist
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member What the Whirlpool Keeps

 Time's whirlpool remembers different, than we do. It narrows down to good memories, 
          as time goes by.   Bad moments circle until the rough edges disappear. 
             Only the polished stories, remain in the clear. Yesterday swirls with
                 splinters  in split ends. Memory keeps churning through its
                   cycles   and  spins.   Regrets  settle  out,  where  the
                     sunlight  can't  follow. As softer fragments slowly
                      rise to the surface. The swirl of memory carries
                       away  the bad and bitter. It treasures pearls
                         in  shells found on calmer days. Each spin
                           softens  another stubborn sorrow. Every
                           turn leaves more grace than grief. We
                             mistake    smooth   memories   for
                              perfect  lives. For memory edits
                               itself without our permission.
                                Facts   get   filtered   while
                                 truths learn to swim. Even
                                  pain    returns,    worn
                                   smooth by the current.
                                    Perhaps,  wisdom  is
                                     surviving  through
                                         enough     
                                         revolutions. 
                                         Perhaps,  love
                                         remembers  like
                                             water,  not
                                               like stone. As
                                               the whirlpool
                                             smooths,  the
                                          lives we once    
                                     lived, Until 
                                   only what 
                               really matters, 
                              reaches the 
                              shore.
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Form: Other

Split Ends

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, as youth.

Her young face is turned away, 
though her face is radiant like the Sun,
her tresses the flames..

(Perhaps her locks are more like the hue 
of the gold sought by the pioneers of the 1800's Gold Rush. Then again, no..)

Her face has freckles that are sorrel-dusky
sun-spots as the star roasts the "spires"
of the semolina(wheat).

The schoolgirl is poised, 
the saffron spelt(wheat) is erect 
under the royalty of the thermic Summer 

empyrean(sky)-wherein a solitary cloud 
 is a blossom, full of grace, 
yet a cloud is never delicate like the flower-

and the girl's tale is morbid..
as is the cancer caused by the sunshine.
The future Harvest is burned as the Sun 

kills the land..the young lady 
reaps an unquenchable lust 'til the cessation 
 of zoetic puissance.

Yet the flowerly nebula 
becomes a cloudburst..
the sunlight shimmers; 

her cilium(hair) 
metamorphoses into gilt lavaliere(jewelry)-
a gleaming tiara.

And the ignited pedicle(stalks) 
bend as the rain-drops sparkle. And yet 
a maiden crown of light-

her fair-haired halo-travails a genesis,
within which the roots of the Earth
glaciate, 

within which her strameneous mane 
becomes like straw, easily snapped;
and is now shivery split ends.






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Premium Member Workshop Poem: Third Parallel

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 love - when we ended,
They did not tell me anything,
For what really could they say?
I sit and watch the hands of grace,
Embalming memories of emotion.
Love forbidden to ever die but,
Peace in how under time it hides.
So I still know,
In spirits and parallels,
I am still with you both,
And this was never written.

#2

From a brunette final encore,
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, but
when blond strands reached split ends,
they did not tell me anything,
for what really could they say?
I sat and watched the hands of grace,
embalming memories of emotion.
Love forbidden to ever die, but
peace in how under time it hides.
So I still know,
in spirits and parallels,
I am still with you both,
and this was never written.
Form: Narrative

Contradictions African Winter Hair Revelation

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 over

Everything and all around has turned

Brittle dry and a hue colored brow

What then becomes a familiar sight

Is seeing desolate scrubs of wasteland set alight

All burnt down until sand and black charred remains 

Are all that is left to be seen

However fortunately when spring eventually arrives

Bringing with it fort it's quenching thirsting rain 

That same barren ravaged landscape

Renews and brings forth with it fresh life again

Simararilay like when we go and get a haircut

In order to remove and cut off split ends

Which makes it once more grow and thrive again

But as a caveat I am also willing to admit

There is most always an exception to the rule

And if I may please use myself as an example

To prove this point if you are willing to indulge me

In regards to me using a haircut as a metaphor

That is until one day you are like me

Find yourself not having to cut your hair anymore

As you haven't got anymore no longer to cut

You are now Bald and it unfortunately

Ain't coming or you aren't able to grow back

And it is only after that and at that point

You will eventually finally come to understand

And finally eventually realize and begin to appreciate 

That which you seemingly took for granted 

The difference between linear thinking

Life and Deaths

Premium Member My Hairied History

Day one out of the womb – had a full crop of hair,
black like my daddy’s (it later went more fair).

Early childhood – Mom kept my brown hair short
because I’d twist it into knots. What a silly sport.

Peanut butter and some gum in my hair might stick.
Never a long hair style could I ever pick.

Pre-teen years – at last I saw my dark hair grow.
Pony tails and pig tails were ways my hair might show.

Junior High, late 60’s, hair piled high like a hive.
A wonder that no bumble bees were seen in there alive.

My hair was also parted always on one side.
I’d wear curlers in a store. Did I have no pride?

High school days – hair longer. In boring math at school,
I sat there pulling off split ends. Must have looked a fool!

College days – used a cheap product from the store.
“Sun-In” gave me reddish-blonde. I used it four times more.

The 80’s – got a perm. The curls were tight. Had oodles.
Now I can have sympathy for cockapoos and poodles.

90’s – used extensions. A lot of folks I fooled.
Strawberry blonde seemed to be the color then that ruled.

New century. New color. My hair was very blonde.
There were two guys in a tram in Rio that I conned.

My friend who looked American knew every word they stated.
About my natural color those guys in Portugese debated.

They finally decided my blonde was natural.
I got a kick out of those young fellows’ folderol.

Later on, my hair got over-bleached. I showered, and
lots of strands of it crumbled right into my hand.

After that, while growing out dark roots about two years,
I wore a wig until uncolored hair went past my ears.

A co-worker , not knowing I wore a wig at school,
told me that my hair had never looked so cool!

By 2010, my hair was in a rut.
Only one side of it grew, so I’d always get it cut.

Turned 60 and got cancer. Ate better to be stronger.
Miraculously my hair AND nails grew a whole lot longer.

Since then till now, my daughter’s been my dear beautician.
She keeps the gray away and my hair in good condition.

Were my hair not dyed, salt and pepper it would be.
I love my gold-like hair, thick, and long and wavy.

Some people think a woman of my age should wear a shorter “do.”
Decades it took to get this look, so NO (and I’ll keep my cute bangs too!)
Form: Other

January 24th, 2023 Hair Washing Heralds Huge Happening

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 once a week)
of straggly follicles, and commence 
to dispense with the heady eco system 
viz rare crop of flora and fauna 
(some rank as endangered species) 

rub and band together 
to scratch envy of  
flaky key neigh bring ponytails 
and create quite an niche, 
and where also can be found
lousy knit wit vendors ready to scalp 
and give shaft to razor sharp purveyors, 
who mane lee scout out available 
head and shoulder room to nap 

without a stir, tub bed down 
(praying  Holy Scott no wash out 
nor Harris mint occurs), 
or burrow vis a vis, 
where subcutaneous porous droplet size 
watership down pieces 
of prime residence found 
counting one mister comb lee 
bald bold faced realtor 

amidst competing rival 
bulb buss Edward scissorhands
(with knot to heavy a price toupee) 
affianced to rapunzel, 
whom he sheared split ends 
as her barber of civil, 
one dapper dander ruff dude to offer 
lice cent shuss insects a tonsured 
cut above other stylish habitués 

preferring to fraternize, 
glad-hand, and hobnob 
amidst a cluster of big wigs 
housed by yours truly - Samson
in gleaming puffy pompadour 
pads tightly secured 
with the best dreadlocks, 
which harum-scarum 
green barrettes serve 

as first line of rinse able defense 
IdentityGuard (with franchisee 
Bob O Link averse to split hairs, but fierce 
as a Mohawk and ring leader 
to protect any curl of mine) 
waving away intruders, 
who if insist tubby persistent 
and tangle with fate 
cannot expect camaraderie 

from buzz cutting crew i.e. the fuzz 
to give expletive filled lathering, 
severe shame poo wing subjugation 
plus an up braiding experience), 
and teach stragglers 
they will suffer 
a real perm in hint bang up job 
if they brazenly brush 
against brylcreem of the crop 
rooted as rightful heirs 
(hairs) of tousled doo mane,
thus concludes my tail. 

Postscript: Yours truly
an aging long haired
seventh generation pencil neck geek
finds ultra joy when 
volunteering for kitchen duty,
hence imagine the hypothetical picture
portraying Geico caveman 
mimicking pseudo dawn of humanity.

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