I Donate My Hair
...My hair grows much faster than most
You can ask my friends, teachers or ghost
If it is in a mohawk by breakfast it is at my shoulders at noon
I can usually stand on my locks in the mid-afternoon
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Categories:
mohawk, humor,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Aqueduct
...It juts out by the river road,
traffic passes it each morn,
what’s left of the old aqueduct,
something stately, yet still forlorn.
The rock, with no mortar, was set
so fine it would make Incas p...
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Categories:
mohawk, appreciation, history, imagery, in
Form: Rhyme
the shadow self wants to dance
...i’m here, nor there, sometimes everywhere
a storm brewing
inside i’m darker
i’ve sailed these seas before
repetition becomes habit
take me back to simpler times
an early childhood memory...
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Categories:
mohawk, age, angst, anxiety, dark,
Form: Free verse
Christmas cold moon
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Christmas cold nocturne
brightness lights the noiseless night ~
restless reindeer rise
(December Cold Moon – Mohawk)
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Categories:
mohawk, animal, christmas, environment, moon,
Form: Haiku
Markita and Her Head Ware
...Markita wore the most stunning head wear to church
No one could see from behind her, unless they sat on a perch.
Pretty soon others were wearing competing oversized hats.
They were puffy and stick...
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Categories:
mohawk, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
mohawk, adventure, anxiety, devotion, fun,
Form: Free verse
Hey Your Hair Is Sticking Up
...Hey! Your hair is sticking up!
This news flash is from a seven-year-old.
I know, I tell him. It’s Dad hair.
I can’t do anything with it.
I have two cowlicks.
Sometimes they both stick up
lookin...
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Categories:
mohawk, humor, humorous,
Form: Narrative
cold moon
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nature languishes
life exhales a solemn sigh ~
tomorrow will come
(December Full Moon – Mohawk)...
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Categories:
mohawk, hope, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Haiku
Mom Is a Daredevil Too
...The teacher was irritated, using her angry voice.
He yelled at me and hurt a kindergartener.
She wanted me to do this that and the other.
Things I never do as the counselor.
I am not punitive, an...
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Categories:
mohawk, family,
Form: Narrative
Hair Washing Heralded Huge Happening
...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 lathe...
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Categories:
mohawk, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
National Hair Day
...It’s National Hair Day - raise a comb!
Shake your tresses - write a poem!
Whether blonde, brunette or red,
Let’s celebrate what’s on your head.
Curly, wavy, frizzy, straight,
Pigtails or a sin...
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Categories:
mohawk, hair,
Form: Rhyme
Hey a Sand Mohawk
...Hey! I gave the sand pile a mohawk!
I smile at age four...
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Categories:
mohawk, age,
Form: Light Verse
Sun Moon Bliss 2
...The bonewind speaks remiss of bone
Always pulling up and headed towards the foam
When the mermaid skins were like scales in signature
Falling off aenome or when the sea was our home
A man is a...
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Categories:
mohawk, 10th grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Free verse
Out On the Fringes
...Time is of the essence, when I get my hair cut,
Impatiently waiting in turn, gives me dandruff,
Barber’s damn slow, chatting, making small talk
Oh hurry up man, I’m in need of a new Mohawk
Th...
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Categories:
mohawk, christian, hair, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
I Miss America
...I miss America
And I’ve never been there
It may seem impossible
Nothing but an affair
I miss America
And that colorful flag
The girl from Pennsylvania
Past full of sw...
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Categories:
mohawk, allusion, america, dream, native
Form: Quatrain
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