Hair Red Poems

My fingers love to ripple down her long blonde curly hair

 
 
Date Written: 2/17/2023

2 Place

A Ripple To Me 2 Contest
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I am very small,                     ...

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I was only seventeen standing outside of the library,                ...

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Life has many highways,                     ...

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I would fly down the cement sidewalk,                  ...

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Smells like clean sweaters
and leaves all
crunched up
Cold, it doesn't hurt
But
It bites
Hair constantly windswept
Wool hats
Itchy ones
The sound of little
Gold and
Red 
Fragments 
Being shattered and pounded
Little crumbs...

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It was the last year of high school and there was a lack of beaux,
But then I got an invite. Whew, that was close!
So now...

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Hair as golden as leaves falling,
Wings as red as trees slowly dying....

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The pretty red hair girl
at the Houston Station
gave me heart palpitation,
but she got all my revered admiration...
because she resembled a Barbie doll;
and I became so...

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The cool evening breeze 
sweeps across her moonlit hair 
laying bare her beauty 
by the gently air 
never have my eyes 
seen a maiden so...

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Whar art thou dame of my dream?

Eagerness readily overtakes me prior 
to succumbing to nightly slumber. 

Tis boot a blink when eyelids become relaxed 
adrift...

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My loving beautiful Rose, 
I love you from your head to your painted toes. 
I called her everyday until our love grew, 
I will dream of you...

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Years before 13th birthday
Sun beckons me run play
In the street under golden ray
With neighborhood kids on hills of clay

Learning to ride bike and skate
Playing kickball...

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Where is grandpa’s red devil box? 
Each grandchild asked this as we entered the home.
It was a box grandpa had teased us with since we...

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Imprisoning textures
and routine lectures
in loneliness,

"your own fault"
"not Other's loss"

blame
shame
dipolar co-arising

Loneliness effacing
cognitive/affective reason
and denying access
to more social future seasons

Including primal memories
of self-appreciation
self-sufficiency
communication resource-fullness,

And yet,
  ...

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