Short Dreadlocks Poems

kinky colored coils
sumo wrestled afro comb
red baby dreadlocks...

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weeping in rhythm
with the lightest gust of wind
silken dreadlocks



posted on June 28, 2019...

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Blades whisper
as I walk the grass
Impatiens blush
Wisteria hides
behind lavender
dreadlocks 
As dawn peeks
above roof tops
a timid breeze
touches my cheek
and May's shy kiss
brushes
my silent lips

1st Place
June Standard Contest
Sponsor:  Brian Strand
Submitted 5/30/17...

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She wore orange-red dreadlocks
Danced on the horizon far away
Setting the woods on fire
Stirring up all kinds of desire

Roosters arose with voices of power
Sleeply pines in silhouette still stood
Dormant in cold and frozen twigs
She stirred the air to warm and play

Happiness she brought
Sent the cold swiftly away...

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BEAUTY
Is the girl wearing braids in her hair
BEAUTY
Is the  young lady with an afro
BEAUTY
Is the woman wearing dreadlocks
BEAUTY
Is what we are
The women of the future
Defining Beauty as we are
It doesn't matter upon our dark skin
It matters upon our confidence within
I am BEAUTY
And so is every independent young lady and child
I define my sense of BEAUTY
BEAUTY doesn't define me...

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Blue hair, green hair
    yellow or pink
  Staring at dreadlocks
    makes me think 

  A soul in there somewhere
    cries out its grief
  For it's grown up
    with disbelief

  In God, in Right from Wrong
    its constitution weak, not strong
 
  Take this soul to the God it craves
    do not let it writhe and seethe
  Free it from its cage
    give it room to breathe...

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A ten-foot-high sunflower man
with a gold-capped tooth in his mouth but
there ain't no plan
yet he wears the same old knotty 
dreadlocks again and again
While walking himself through 
Black Folk's yard in that bebop-style
no doubt along the avenue road
while smoking some of that sweet sweet Gunga
Yet, him so full of himself
rasta man young rapper
you rapscallion, did you bring the juice...

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Dreadlocks and smiles 
in teardrops and eyefuls
which fall gracefully
and remind all look skyward
Hands held and voices
and right or wrong choices
which pull us together
and make us move forward
Lean in and step close
to ones that you love most
which never will leave you
or doubt who you are
Shoulders and strong arms
to cry and long lean on
which carry you bright
to your sky, shining star......

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 The Stiletto Life

Her Infectious smile and rhythmic click-clack on the pavement,
Mask the pain from her eight-inch, pencil-thin Louboutin heels;
Flying, neat, long dreadlocks, trail her incredibly steady strides,
As, gracefully, she sashays past, turning heads and dropping jaws;
Her white dress, a slightly revealing flutter in the breezy drizzle!

June 8, 2018

Written for "She Walks" Poetry Contest 
Sponsor : Julia Ward

 UNSUPPORTED CODE...

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He was looking at me
With his sunken eyelids
And his round lips
His dreadlocks that hang loosely to his face
It wasn't just any look but a stare

I concluded he had fallen for me
And my heart keep on beating
And my soul kept on yearning
While his locks kept killing me slowly

Eventually he spoke,
"Miss,your sweater is inside out"

As if stung,
I rushed to the washrooms
Confused by my love for his dreadlocks
Ashamed of my instincts
If only he could read my mind.........

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I wonder why his is always open 
when I smell something rotten
Our kittens under his bed faints
I wonder why he closes his dome while at home
and opens it while away

Is his intentions to punish me and the kittens?
And when I am away
I pity the poor pets and neighbours

I wonder why his shoes are always clean
is the smell in my mind?
Or it’s his socks under the shoes
and why does he mock me o f my dreadlocks?
Tomorrow I am hiding all his shoes 
Hopping to see his socks...

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