for a childhood memory
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porch swing
raining
no scares
free air
small girl
unfurl
back, forth
ghosts storm
lightning
blending
lost flash
backlash
time meant
ringlets
rocking,
rocking...
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Categories:
ringlets, child, innocence, lonely, lost,
Form: Footle
Curly Top
...Ouch! Please mommy stop it’s not fair
I pulled on her robe as she pulled on my hair
Halfway through combing out my long curls
mother hurries to get to the other girls
Gentle brushes won’t...
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Categories:
ringlets, childhood, hair,
Form: Other
Pearls And Cigarettes Rime Couee
...Massaging me with body oil,
I am now your woman to spoil.
My hair’s become ringlets.
With an arch in the jacuzzi,
I lay back let you taste me.
String pearls and cigarettes.
There is an absen...
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Categories:
ringlets, lust, passion, romance,
Form: Other
Purple Dreams in Other Realms
...Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see
dressed in a fantastical dress with two dappled wings of lace,
she shone like the midnight sun;
I must confess, she looked rathe...
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Categories:
ringlets, dream, fairy, fantasy, father,
Form: Free verse
Private Dancer
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Scarlet ribbons are woven into her hair,
titan ringlets frame her beautiful face.
Never refusing to wiggle her pert derriere,
rich men pay big to ogle nubile Ella Grace.
Huge feat...
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Categories:
ringlets, dance, jobs, money,
Form: Rhyme
only one kept her curls
...My mother’s curls were teeny tiny, ringlets of gray
Tightly wound, as if they had been set around toothpicks
My sister and I had golden curls until we were two.
They gave us a haircut, and that wa...
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Categories:
ringlets, family,
Form: Free verse
Forewarning of Dawn
...A bird that dips and wavers
Over lone waters round,
Then with a cry that quavers
Is gone—a spectral sound.
— Cale Young Rice
Sopping wet, the organ floats,
flounders in one o...
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Categories:
ringlets, dark, scary, sea,
Form: Couplet
Ink Drops Like Rain
...Ink Drops Like Rain
The Devil tried to take a bite of me.
I watched his ringlets twirl.
I've finally reached the spot
where I knew I was going to be.
It's a lose lose, to hell
and back to...
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Categories:
ringlets, abuse, age, allegory, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
shy faerie goddess
...Which is more vivid, the seventeen-year-old or her flaming dress?
Fat Rita Hayworth ginger ringlets swirl around her porcelain face.
Her lips are radiant red tonight, does she have any idea of her ...
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Categories:
ringlets, woman,
Form: Free verse
shattered n whole
...
Like glass catching light
scatter across the sky
each shard a silver of history
a world once whole
now dispersed into the quiet
between afterthoughts
Time drips at its edge
sp...
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Categories:
ringlets, allegory, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Until Then
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Along the tracks of Grandma's quaint backyard, her lavender perfume reminded me of my early teenhood,
digging the soil to thresh the roots as I buried seeds through its clayed womb.
In this la...
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Categories:
ringlets, garden, grandmother,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Raven: A Date with Death
...The Raven: A Date with Death
I danced a date
a date with Death.
He sat me down for tea.
In the darkness sat the swirl
of infinity.
The ringlets 'round his brow
did stain the spirits ev...
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Categories:
ringlets, absence, allegory, beautiful, death,
Form: Rhyme
Exquisite Toronto Water Reflections
...Exquisite Toronto water reflections
Lake’s hair is in pretty natural stagnant ringlets
An owl takes a perch in the design I see
her lovely paths lead somewhere
oak trees are readily reflected in ...
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Categories:
ringlets, water,
Form: Free verse
child invents instant creative hairdo magic
...I have invented instant creative hairdo magic, the child told the mama
When you awake from sleep, your hair will change colors, with high drama
Mama woke up and her hair was blonde with curly ringl...
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Categories:
ringlets, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Welcome May
...May your days be filled with happiness, joy and laughter
Always know I love you, a poem is what I’ll gift forever after
You’re in my heart and soul, as a child and as I mature...
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Categories:
ringlets, appreciation, may, mothers day,
Form: Acrostic
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