She gathers her arms for her nightly fight
to do battle with her hair, to “get it right”
she’s been cursed with unruly, super fine hair
that won’t cooperate and flies everywhere.
Oh, to have thick, voluminous hair
so sheik, so silky, so shiny and fair
spun layers of gold, or deep auburn flair
or lovely chestnut tones, “fabu-lair”!
But, alas, unwanted whispy is she
as she settles into her pin-curl “soirée”
she wrestles her head scarf to keep it tight
and prays it “stays put” while she sleeps at night.
In the morning, her second round fight resumes
unpinning her curls, knows they’ll fall flat real soon
next comes the teasing, the crimping, the spray
knowing the volume won’t last half a day.
Then sighing, with hand mirror, checks every spot
every turn, every angle, she does this a lot
I wait for my mother to finish her hair
If “it isn’t right” we’re not going anywhere!
Colourfication
We watched the feathery clouds
Scalloping the azure sky.
The breeze blew patterns of
Ivory shells in the cloudy drape,
Flowing over a coral roof bewitching
The amber sun to capsize inch by inch.
In a flash the sky shrouded us in in an indigo canopy
Before magically sliding it off to unravel
Zillions of silver sparklers scintillating us in the skies.
I froze holding the carnation bouquet close to my bosom,
My feet had almost sunk into the grassy olive carpet,
Breathing in the fragrance of the bedded marigolds.
My ruby heart revived me out of the celestial spell
While I lay charmed in my sweet love's arms,
Unpinning my glossy jet tresses to wallow in the scented breeze.
March 17, 2016
Contest : United Colours - Colourfication
Sponsor : Silent One
Simple words left unsaid
this blindness of pride
unpinning the twine
a haunting
———-
Draping her shadow
crescents of blood
thickens to drizzle
a river of mud to
his presence
———-
Gloried divine
Savior to sole
unhealed in misery
no growing old
the revelation
———-
Centipedes crawling
pains again
poisoning floods
these misty rains
in exorcism
———-
Easing confessions
of screaming torture
reeked a misery
expelled in anger
a cleansing
———-
Unhitched by grace
serendipity flowered
this breeze to face
tendrils of love
seeped to core
is forgiven
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