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Ronnie Colyer My Hero

...Picture day a day that I from self consciousness detested
add to my gap toothed grin wild eyed and unrested

In first grade sitting next to a handsome young man in a suit
Bouncing along on the bu...

Categories: permed, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme

The Devil Wears Slim

...The devil wears slim fit suits
Parading his perilous muscular body whose shape leads to a man's daughter's demise.

The devil wears pointy & shiny Raniera shoes, walking around posing a floppy ste...

Categories: permed, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Thoughts of You

...TH0UGHTS OF YOU

The last time I ever saw you,  
you were standing beside my bed,
so dressed up with your short permed hair.
You were wearing a printed navy long sleeves shirt,
tucked in white ...

Categories: permed, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Atraction

...Attraction

As race is concerned 
Beauty lies within 
Buried beneath the surface 

The stick figure 
The petite 
The full figured 
And well rounded
The dreaded
The bald headed

Of body
...

Categories: permed, age, beautiful, beauty, black
Form: Free verse

Paradise

...Paradise 

Switch off the lights 
Close the  drapes and the blinds
Bury the sunshine 
Surely , dawn shall arise
And tend to my cry

Melanin 
Unique 
Exceptional 
Complexion    
Uncommon 
...

Categories: permed, appreciation, beauty, best friend,
Form: Free verse

The Beach

...Along the water's edge, the grey waves
Break noisily in a white foam spray,
Curling carefully like well-permed hair.
Driftwood carried on to the shingle
Envelops the wind-blown plastic and
Frame...

Categories: permed, beach, sea, winter,
Form: ABC

Geeez, I Feel So Old

...That record player my older sister tried to hide,
with Foreigner, The Bangles and Madonna intensified. 
Me only ten, yet in love with the sexy New Kids,
remember Z. Cavaricci pants and ...

Categories: permed, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Time Out of Place

...The lacquer, the tease, the crimp, of the hair
as we go out in style, mesh tops with flair
the motley choices of fashion pronounced
by the neon signs on our t-shirts no doubt.

Bobby socks and c...

Categories: permed, travel,
Form: Rhyme

School and My Future

...My future happiness depended upon school, 
They’re understanding of religious older parents,
Them constraining them with supervision, 
So that I could have autonomy in my garments. 

I mean, my ...

Categories: permed, caregiving, character, education, mother
Form: Rhyme

Lust In Love

...Wriggled in her arms.
Lost in an adventure of romance, moving far afield.
Though I have no weakness for writing, 
my story got underway.
Wallowing in the admiralty of her beauty
Adorned with bea...

Categories: permed, anxiety, for her, girlfriend,
Form: Free verse

Morning Hair

...Morning Hair

Gray white straight wiry
Frightening straight yelling wire
Makes Brillo looked permed....

Categories: permed, funny
Form: Haiku

Discovering Women

...In 1950 the boy's world
was mostly populated by women.
Men were there as well
but they were like forces of nature
dark, incomprehensible, moving around
making deep sounds.

Women had red paint...

Categories: permed, life
Form: Free verse

The Ghetto's Poem

...Single mothers and drug dealers
are some of the inhabitants
in this habitat,
permed pimps and
lizard green cadillacs.
Headless fiends
so high,
off drugs no lie,
they get served by
dreds with...

Categories: permed, black african american, life,
Form: Lyric