Short Scalp Poems

first peoples voted nay
(they haven’t much of a say)
Call him chief?
beyond belief!
but they’d sure like his scalp for display...

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Women, seize me; don’t shun me.
For my mane designed by birth –
No bad hair day, I’m bald up top!
Scalp shining in manly mirth.

© January 16, 2011
Dane Smith-Johnsen...

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The hair on my head is no more.
I lost it at age twenty-four.
The X chromosome
made useless my comb
and brought shiny scalp to the fore....

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The sting of her scalp,
the bite on her lip.
Her skin like a map;
the marks on her hip. 
The act is one
of passion and sin,
and when it is over
she’ll say 
“Take me again.”...

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"If we would need a boy for prom and someone would ask us-"
"I wouldn't accept him"
"But I didn't even mention his name.
I meant everybody, who it might be."
"Yeah, I am just saying"
Sigh...

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So many of us pull strands of hair out of our scalp
all in the name of perfection, but why chase this illusion?
There's true beauty in being perfectly imperfect.



Date written: 07/28/2019...

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I may have it right,
in the write,
or it may be false,
its your job,
to get going for the scalp,
I gut feel that falsk,
is what is false,
and not quite genuine,
am I right with the meaning....

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Poor Sam is sans his beloved toupee

   It was snatched from his scalp one windy day

      'Twas last seen sailing o'er town

         Sam trying to coax it down

            If found call Sam - a bounty he will pay...

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he’d bought a skull rug for that spot
high on his head where hair was not

but …

it brought him rash and scalp decay -
one horrid nightmare’s “hell toupee”









Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, February 28, 2023...

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Seafoam dreams massage deep into my scalp,
as uncomely thoughts drift drain-ward destined. 
A warm, white noise water rush of comfort 
cradles me back to the days of my womb home, 
with the only goal of growing and thriving.


11/9/19...

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Showering
Knob all the way left

Skin on my calves 
Burning crimson
Tingling with heat

Scrub it off
     off
          off

Scratch the fingerprints out
Of my screaming pores
Pull every hair
He ever touched
Out of my scalp
Replace myself
With new pieces
Of me...

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sweat on the defoliated landscape

               that had once been his scalp above his nape;

                                      thinks the mirror

                                            is in error,

                believes from the bald truth he can escape !...

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It fits in your palm
like flesh, 
its firm plastic handle
the color of his skin.
Its bristles tingle
your scalp,
pass through your hair,
your tresses
like fingers of a lover.
Remember how he eased 
that new word 
across his lips: golden
tresses, giving you
the beauty of your hair....

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Today I grieve... and tomorrow.
Every tear that falls
on the second jaw
is there because of gravity,

or sorrow has something
to do with it--
my leaking groundward

as fingers grasp my crown
probing deep into scalp
for an answer--

when nothing more is found
but wet scraps of hair....

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I saw an alien from space
his bare scalp with panther place
octopus tufts gaze nose
"they dub me Russ," he goes
and I jumped due to your face

Written: May 3rd, 2023

A Funny or Bawdy Limerick Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin

Checked by HMS.Com/ 8-7-6-6-7 syllables
Rhyme: Checked by Rhymezone.com...

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Untamed unruly 
Insubordinate strands coiled into a restrictive pose
Chemical warfare and arson to my scalp to straighten you out
For a while you complied but you always get tangled up in a mess
Arrested for disorderly conduct
Failing to yield to a comb
Robbing me of my sanity
This delinquency I can’t tolerate
So I had to lock you up...

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Silly boy;
Don't you know you should be fearful of the girl who wears another person's hair on their scalp,
Don't you know that she can wear your skin on her teeth and take pictures of it?
Aren't you afraid of the girl with a crown of thorns around her head,
Don't you know a halo is made of light?
Silly boy;
Why must you be so careless?...

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I`ve seen them dance with Dodos at dawn
and slide down curves of a mammoth's tusk
to swim in the midst of creation`s spawn,
then define the gloaming and name it dusk.

I`ve seen them skate on the scalp of pluto
and confirm that saturn's rings are of ice;
then suspect all planets like games of Cluedo:
The who dunnit query of who made life?...

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I’ve bloomed past blossom season, a frame held by flesh, fragile.
Wrinkles appear now, near feet left by crow.
You see the grey in the brown, see a patch of scalp showing,
you see the change in my gait, see my once brisk pace slowing.
But you don’t see me. I am no longer desirable, desired,
nor worth a glance from afar. A smile. You don’t see me....

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Chewed stalks brown corn
Skeleton dead heads of sunflowers
rotten tomatoes and watermelons

fruitless vines and weeds waist high
Purple salvia blooms shine
Orange Marigolds

**ideas---------

blooms blown
Weeds shown

stalks bare
Full hare

scalp bare
no hair

flower power showers 
Sour pity hour
Powdered sugar icing
tower the sweet wower...

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Too many words and rhyme
but not enough
creativity
nor style or original scheme

He senses that his reign must end
His poetry becoming archaic
obtuse
Unimaginitive

Time advances his once A-OK vision
As the snow falls in Late January
The hair on his scalp is turning grey
A youth he did knew as his ideas now fading away

It is time to end the Chapter...

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She did not like what she saw,
A damsel without her locks.
Her face looks forlorn,
In mourning for her lost locks.

She did not like what she saw,
A scalp without her mane.
But her resolve tell it all,
She will just be sad in vain.

She did not like what she saw,
But wailing will give more pain.
Her resolve in the long run, 
Is to see the loss as a gain....

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Post Covid, my scalp has been shedding
Hair covers the pillow and bedding
There’s tresses on the floor
If I lose any more
The prospect of baldness I’m dreading!



A great deal of poetic licence about hair in the bed  but since I’ve had covid  I’ve noticed strands of hair on the floor and also a friend has had the same thing happen

11/27/21...

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I run to my next class with industrious speed, I have to make it before the bell

Damn it, my car broke down the day before the deadline, what the hell

I leap my body through the door, my scalp itches and my teeth hurts

The teacher sees my sweat face "Why did you run here an hour early?" So he blurt

Turns out I set my alarm clock back by accident, at least I'm not late, oh well.
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Trump and a Trollope

Trump's favorite  type of woman was a trollope,
And on horseback with her he did like to gallop;
Deeply involved;
Solution  solved;
His scaly scalp was found in plate full of scallop.

Jim Horn

Intend and Apprehend

What we originally started to intend,
Terrible Trump we knew apprehend;
Magic melodrama,
Wearing a big bra,
And alive should have him skinned.

Jim Horn...

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