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A smoky vignette opens up, as if morning fog over the mountain valleys blown by winter winds.
Piano notes pulsing in a melancholic, waltz~ like cadence…the plangent tension ...
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Categories:
pompadours, art, change, clothes, culture,
Form: Free verse
50's Hair, If You Dare
...Crewcuts, flattops, pompadours
Cowlicks, ducktails, side parts
Clean cuts, Ivy Leagues, slick-backs
Where have all these hairstyles gone
No longer do the cute chicks fawn ......
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Categories:
pompadours, hair, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Roses Too
...Ripe strawberries are intensely red,
And blazing full-blown roses are too,
And pompadours in a leafy homestead,
Or the heart love has rendered blue.
So ruby the sun's comings and goings-
And bed...
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Categories:
pompadours, beautiful, bird, flower, fruit,
Form: Rhyme
A Blossoming
...Although I had always adored flowers, I had never had a green thumb;
And while I tried awfully hard, my efforts always had sorry outcomes.
Like the sorrow of old garden roses, during the unantici...
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Categories:
pompadours, beautiful, fantasy, flower, garden,
Form: Couplet
In the Shadow of the Trees
...red pompadours sing
cobalt macaws spread their wings
burgundy shadows
in the pink roses
sweet hummingbird mystery
like where the day went
here in the shadows
the day has gone up in smoke
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Categories:
pompadours, beautiful, bird, color, flower,
Form: Haiku
What Gets On My Nerves
...You want to know what annoyeth me? Let me count the ways!
I could weave a veritable tapestry of all my aggravations, mostly in
light and deep crimson hues which signify the violence in my Heart.
Eas...
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Categories:
pompadours, anger, angst, how i
Form: Narrative
Cruisin' the Drag
...Sipping cherry limeade, driving in the car parade,
we're cruising in the Lone Star state.
Didn't want a bucket seat; the thing it couldn't beat,
was sitting up close to your date.
One hand on t...
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Categories:
pompadours, car, funny, growing up,
Form: Rhyme