New Perm Takes Over
...Shelly has a new perm from an old kit high on a shelf
It is a curly perm that somehow managed to feed itself
Every day there are more curls and it is poofy and round
It travels outward and upward,...
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Categories:
perm, humor,
Form: Rhyme
My Hairied History
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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...
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Categories:
perm, growth, hair,
Form: Other
My Hectic Hair History
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There’s a nadir of personal despair -
In feminine terms it’s - No hair, no flair!
My hairy genes caused me lifelong distress,
I longed for a look I didn’t possess.
I daydreamed of golden l...
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Categories:
perm, humorous,
Form: Other
Remember the times, remember the days when beauty was an untouched gift
...Remember the times, remember the days when beauty was an untouched gift,
before combs straightened and broke, before curls were burned and hidden,
under artificial wigs, when we were beautiful, oh,...
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Categories:
perm, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
When We Were Beautiful
...Remember the time.
Remember the days.
Before the weave…..
After the straightening comb and fried dried perm, wig…….
When we were beautiful,
Oh, so black and beautiful.
When the character of bla...
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Categories:
perm, black african american, change,
Form: Free verse
stubborn opinionated doll named Mare
...Dorothy had a stubborn opinionated doll named Mare.
Mare had a persnickety attitude, her nose in the air.
I am taking in boarders, she told the stunned Dorothy.
So far I have signed on two, with a...
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Categories:
perm, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
MAMMA
...MAMMA
My mother is sadly now just a faint memory
As her passing was a number of decades ago
But always caring, maternal, and good to me
Of course, classed as a baby boomer, I know
I was to b...
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Categories:
perm, age, cancer, eulogy, heartbreak,
Form: Terza Rima
take two
....
i had my thumb
under her chin
and my palm on her
throat
the rest
mine duke's digits
wrap hern neck
'neath her perm
a...
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Categories:
perm, allegory, beautiful, extended metaphor,
Form: Carpe Diem
The Dance of Waves
...Written: October 11, 2023
As I Watch The Waves Crash Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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As I wait with anxiousness on the edg...
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Categories:
perm, analogy, water,
Form: Rhyme
The Medusa's At the Hair Salon
...Mr. and Mrs. Medusa
Put their huge hats on their heads
To constrain their hair that always
Looks like they just got out of bed
They drove off to the hair salon
Even though they remembered
Th...
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Categories:
perm, fun, hair, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
You'Re In Trouble - Bawdy Warning
...My neighbour, Mellifluous Myrtle
Her urine she’d stir with a spurtle
She’d give me a wink
Then down it as drink
She’s loopier than the mock turtle!
One Sunday we’d watched the Gran...
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Categories:
perm, drink, humorous,
Form: Limerick
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:
perm, adventure, anxiety, devotion, fun,
Form: Free verse
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:
perm, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Butt Ugly
...A vain, self important baboon
Would preen as he made ladies swoon
Chin chiselled and firm
A blonde curly perm
His butt still looks like a balloon...
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Categories:
perm, animal,
Form: Limerick
Your Hair-
...You're fleecing
Ever so covering
Fluffy is your fur
The hair
On your chrome
So engulfing
Where does it really come from
bushy
curly
strengthen
lengthen
long flowing
fa...
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Categories:
perm, analogy, appreciation, hair,
Form: Free verse
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