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Plaits Poems - Poems about Plaits

Neatness and Godliness
...Every picture I’ve seen of you as a child, You wear your hair in plaits. A stern middle parting and two dark brown braids Falling down on each shoulder. A maypole’s dream. You would do your b......

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Categories: plaits, bereavement, children, grandparents, poverty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hair Composition
... Her hair dances like the cascading stream, murmuring in the silence of dormant dreams. It’s more than an element of graceful façade, the curls carry a crown of style adornment. The onyx ha......

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Categories: plaits, analogy, beauty, hair,
Form: Other



Premium Member Windswept
...Windswept Over sheet music, harmonious movement of sand. Droplets of rain dance - time swooning on sea and on land. Cupid’s arrows climb, descend strings of the violin. Heartthrobs, si......

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Categories: plaits, beauty, love, music,
Form: Couplet
The Girl on the Monkey Bars
...The girl on the monkey bars Hanging upside down The girl with the auburn plaits Riding through the town The girl with the toothy grin Hopping to one knee The girl in this rhyming tale Is the ......

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Categories: plaits, fun, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Three of Us
...We were small, innocence written all over.. Pulling plaits, dreaming of a new rover. Crossed paths..when I picked my nose, While you processed your identity of rose. She lodged once with me, once......

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Categories: plaits, emotions, friendship love, high
Form: Ballad



Duper Woman
...I used to miss your touch, now your hands feel like claws I used to melt in your stare, now your eyes come with bristles I used to miss your shag and plaits, now you wear a tail of a horse I......

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Categories: plaits, africa, age, feelings, freedom,
Form: Free verse
American Primative
...Inside an archaic framework she fetches a pail from the fields, the bucket on her hip is full of broken eagles. Wind turbines churn in the distance. He takes the mangled birds plucks them, p......

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Categories: plaits, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A New Girl
...Hair like corkscrews, crazy curly and short, pulled into two plaits, begging to be let free. With her eyes wandering about, she sprouts a smile on my face, as she boards the bus, her bag li......

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Categories: plaits, friendship, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Bridge
...The bridge between our hearts as fine as spiderweb threads Along it soldiers march workers trample, children skip with balls of light cows graze, horses gallop Between our hearts the bri......

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Categories: plaits, earth, inspirational, nature, self,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Two Soldiers
...Two Soldiers A tender moment He re-plaits her hair She waits patiently As he twists strands until they intertwine and he secures them with a twist of a bow Yellow and blue On their lape......

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Categories: plaits, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Wildfire and Innocence
...children of an emerald isle inhabiting a pause in brutish wars dulcet notes of tenderest voices raining as leaves fro......

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Categories: plaits, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Be the Bee
...Be the bee within the bees bonnet pouring Not as old man in his slumber snoring For soon the bees of honey do partake And late the old man stands his last awake Come comb your honey hair as sun......

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Categories: plaits, education, growing up, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Your Hair Pin
...Your old sleek black hair-pin is still with me, mother, I've treasured it greater than a yellow sapphire; It collects in me, memories of plaits and knot, And the roses I'd graced with dedication l......

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Categories: plaits, child, love, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Noah Flood
...My strange tears. The genie's eyes, oh genie's eyes. Gather the sun's spears. Be careful not to step on the thistles of fear. Plaits are used to create the form. To achieve a slimmer epitome. Y......

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Categories: plaits, absence, adventure, beach, boat,
Form: Free verse
My Hair
...My hair has always had a mind of its own Stays doing whatever it wants whenever it pleases Just never bothers to do any of it, at my convenience Will take its sweet time to grow When I'......

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Categories: plaits, africa, beauty, culture, hair,
Form: I do not know?

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