A Girl's Black Hair
...when I
young I
was well
and tell
my friends
split ends
my hair
not fair
but clean
not mean
I wash
and brush
my locks
like ducks
to say
like fay
I sing
and swing
...
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Categories:
split ends, color, funny, hair,
Form: Footle
My Hairied History
...
Day one out of the womb – had a full crop of hair,
black like my daddy’s (it later went more fair).
Early childhood – Mom kept my brown hair short
because I’d twist it into knots. What a silly...
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Categories:
split ends, growth, hair,
Form: Other
Under the veil of twilight, in the whispering pines
...Under the veil of twilight, in the whispering pines,
Where the sweet rain drifts through the western air,
I find myself lost in the labyrinth of my own thoughts.
Hypocrite women, how seldom we exp...
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Categories:
split ends, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Contradictions African Winter Hair Revelation
...Both time
&
Life is fleeting
Birth most certainly
Similataniously
Also leads and ends in death
Like the winter climate in South Africa
Johannesburg specifically during Winter
...
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Categories:
split ends, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
January 24th, 2023 Hair Washing Heralds Huge Happening
...January 24th, 2023 Hair washing heralds huge happening
Hark….the herald angels sing, and twitter
for mass communication
mediums stop the presses
when I, a regular schlemiel
take shampoo to...
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Categories:
split ends, adventure, anxiety, devotion, fun,
Form: Free verse
Loving Chip and Dale
...Chip and Dale were favorite cartoons of my sister and me.
With so much ***** and happiness, joyful they could be.
They ran around in chipmunk form and chittered away.
Making our cartoon fest much...
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Categories:
split ends, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Hair Washing Heralded Huge Happening
...Earlier today April 4th, 2022,
which supersedes bald faced headlines
pointing finger and
Putin blame for Bucha killings
squarely on head & shoulders
of Russian autocrat, née
yours truly lathe...
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Categories:
split ends, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Split Ends
...Her hair, blonde, is twisted in the wind.
The whipping strands are the colors
of the shinning cropland
by which she is standing. She is alone
by this golden feed that is bounteous; wholesome ...
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Categories:
split ends, allusion, angel, anger, beautiful,
Form: Prose Poetry
Just Strands of Straw
...Just Strands of Straw
I look into the mirror,
my hair has dropped to the sink.
It is a trail of tears,
years of taking care of split ends,
fluffing and drying,
tying it up,
leaving it ...
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Categories:
split ends, anxiety, cancer, grief, hair,
Form: Narrative
The Real World
...Welcome to the real world
where Cinderella has six inch stilettos
and carries flat shoes just in case
where Rapunzel is shaved
or has short hair due to split ends
where sleeping beauty has min...
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Categories:
split ends, christian, cinderella,
Form: Free verse
Family Life
...To prove that she just did not care
She tossed all her clothes in the air
Her father would scream
Whilst mum ate ice cream
And the postman sighed, "What a pair!"
Gummi Bare
Freddy had a rub...
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Categories:
split ends, family, funny, hair, parents,
Form: Limerick
Inspired By Contest Where I Was In 70s
...The distinct decade
Preceding my birth
Ecstasy and aids
Consumed this earth
They begged for pleasure
Pleaded for peace
Floated high as a feather
Then along came grease
A musical comedy
F...
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Categories:
split ends, fun, history,
Form: Rhyme
Flytrap
...dead ends and crop circles
split ends and dark circles
everyone thinks i'm a mirror
i'm not the mirror, you are
lock me in your basement
i've got a strange, sick craving
in the painting, the ...
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Categories:
split ends, allegory, flower, mystery, scary,
Form: Lyric
Memory Thunders
...She's the girl with no friends,
The one you made fun of for having split ends
When she used her haircut money
To buy something for her sonny
Because she loves him with all her heart,
Even if hav...
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Categories:
split ends, mom,
Form: Rhyme
Seduction of the Lock
...What shimmers yonder blowing in the wind
What smooth and glowing curls unfurl out there
Take wing in Spring like yellow gods spaghetti
Glowing with the morning sunbeams just beginning
Pretty g...
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Categories:
split ends, absence, appreciation, beauty, conflict,
Form: Free verse
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