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Mohawk Poems - Poems about Mohawk

Premium MemberI 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

Premium MemberChristmas 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

Premium MemberMarkita 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

Premium MemberHey 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

Premium Membercold 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

Premium MemberMom 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

Premium MemberHey 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

Premium MemberOut 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 

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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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