Short Barrette Poems

The girl in the red barrette
Silently walking downtown
Lifting her hair over top
To watch it slide down

Russell Sivey...

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Bobby Burnett bought a barrette    
For wee, bonny Barbara's long braids.  
Braw Bobby beams on wee bonny Babs       
As she gaen through the glens and glades....

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Gertrude Besamer was a bunny with style, flair, and class.
She entered Marla’s Tearoom with a bit of jazzy sass.
Marla complimented her on her barrette made of glass.
And her well-padded bustle which enhanced her pretty a…....

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She was lying on the Ethel’s turret with a sting in the tail
            Felt a squirt on her face and barrette; is it the end of the tale?
                    Water water everywhere water, not a drop to drink
                  Ho ho the machine does totter, not a moment of wink
 She yanked her pants up ,tail between legs, and crossed the sea without sail...

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Yes,

She

Wore a

College girl's

Skirt and sweater and

A barrette in her shoulder length 

Hair. She was the college girl of fifteen years ago. 

She hadn't kept up with the times the way others had and she had a low-pitched, well-bred 

Voice that many people said was subtly insulting.

And confidence and homeliness 

Not often seen—met 

Together 

In one

Face-

One....

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mom placed baby’s breath
in my hair
on my wedding day

my hair she’d squeeze
out in the sink
in childhood no need for ink
i’d think ‘ouch’

‘ouch’ the pain
she laid helpless
on her hospice bed
with merely a couple strands

so brave
she said goodbye to hair
knowing it would grow back

it grows back in time
heavenly fine
a barrette placed with care
by her guardian angel

my sad eyes
smile
at this thought

4/26/2021...

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She waves her skirt on a sidewalk, 
Walking and dancing while she talk,
Her lips are red like cherry fruit
Curly hair with amber barrette hook

She smiles like a maiden chick
She has a nice tone of a rosy cheek
Her eyes glow like a star in the night
Beautiful, rounded dark brown eyes
 
Why she needs to be a one…?
Where she is pretty and her beauty is beyond
Why she need to be a one…?
Where there are lots of fishes in the ocean…...

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Shakespeare's pen surrendered to retirement,
Elizabeth Barrette Browning a constant motivation,
Robert Barette Browning, love's companion,
The mysteries of God's universe,
Discovered by humanity,
Honourable companions of the past,
A memory of contemporary excellence,
Companions of the present,
Defined traditionally,
God's nature encompassing us daily,
Blossoming through the seasons,
A writer's paradise.

Author: Gwen Meyer-Erlach Schutz...

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Anxiety girl could turn any situation into something worse.
If someone stole your barrette, she’d say they had stolen her purse.
She looked for the bad under every rock, ledge, collar and chair.
Thinking that no one in the world liked her or gave a care.

Anxiety girl could shake her hands at will.
She focused on the bad, that was her usual drill.
Her habitat was to live in the worst place she could ever be.
People ran from her often, and this included me....

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