Short Barbershop Poems

Barbershop sports brag
Our basic boast is boxing
Mothers just sit there...

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The barbershop is buzzing;
My guy is running late.
At home, my dinner’s waiting;
I am hungry, which I hate.

The traffic out the window
Zips by quickly, heading home.
I sit and watch the city breathe
And write my daily poem....

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There once was a boy of three
Ricky was just as cute as could be
He got a bottle of orange pop
From his Grandpa's barbershop
Which leads to great adventures, says he




Follow the adventures of Soda Pop with Richard Lamoureus...

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two cinquains, one reversed



accord
harmonious
like a barbershop choir
each singing alone, together
sweet sound

aligned
synchronized with the same pow’r Source
like a well-oiled machine
all parts on task
in sync

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She has a certain savoir-faire;
always clever with the cleaver.
Young leveret wants to believe her,
follows signs for trim of hare.

Too old, her title to recoup,
waits patient at the barbershop,
then takes a little off the top;
a tortoise makes delightful soup....

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Flip flop look what’s landed on top
Straight out of the barbershop
Bald head’s a bowling ball
Leg up high for aerial
Come swift stumbling to a full stop



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on January 4, 2018 for contest UPSIDE DOWN WORLD sponsored by EVE ROPER -  RANKED 3RD...

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(This is a fictional poem)

I've watched him in Friday and in Barbershop.
Last week Ice Cube beat me up and he wouldn't stop.
I kissed a lady who turned out to be his girlfriend.
I'm in the hospital and it will take awhile for my broken bones to mend.
If you see Ice Cube, don't aggravate him and don't make him mad.
He'll kick your ___ too because he is bad....

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Distant dogs bark
Rain clouds
in the internal weather
of the yet unknown
~
Did we, like satellite moons,
on the outer orbital rims
of a blind universe
just collide?
~
She brushes my long hair,
the hair is a ghost
long fallen.
A barbershop chorus
modulates its harmonics.
~
A deaf television blares
out of his coffin.
He has changed channels;
gone are ears of the watchers....

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Those two submarines are playing cards on their lunch break,
Suddenly a boiled egg passes and say:
-Hi five what you guys doing?
-We are playing cards
-Can I play?!
-This is only for members. 
-That's OK 
-I was going to the barbershop anyway,
- Ask Hydra for a Beer egg 
- I have been going to AA man are you crazy!,
The egg vomits 
The submarines laugh 
Hydra juggles

Dedicated to Professor Adriano Moreira...

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I took my grandson to the barbershop today . Tonight is prom night so very special i must say.
As I sat and looked around expressionless faces was all that could be found. All about gazing into their iPhones and androids it was engough to pop a hemorrhoid.
O tempora o mores as Cicero would say is this what our world has become today.
The ability to converse has become almost remedial. One day i fear our tongues will become vestigial....

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Slick it down with wax
     It fits a crook

  Tho' it could also be 
     a circus-master's look

  Let it grow long, wooly and wild
     It's an over-age, curly-haired child's

  Squish it together into three teen males' little nubs
     Presto! -- a psychotic 'student rifle club'

  Eliminate its last faint trace
     A dapper gent your life has just graced

  A moustache is versatile, you will agree
     be it 'barbershop-quartet-ish' or a deep mystery...

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