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Lot's Wife
by Wislawa Szymborska

They say I looked back out of curiosity.
But I could have had other reasons.
I looked back mourning my silver bowl.
Carelessly, while tying my sandal strap.
So I wouldn't have to keep staring at the righteous nape
of my husband Lot's neck.
From the sudden conviction that if I dropped dead
he wouldn't so much as hesitate.
From the disobedience of the meek.
Checking for pursuers.

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The City In Which I Loved You
by Li-Young Lee

And when, in the city in which I love you,
even my most excellent song goes unanswered,
andI mount the scabbed streets,
the long shouts of avenues,
and tunnel sunken night in search of you...

That I negotiate fog, bituminous
rain rining like teeth into the beggar's tin,
or two men jackaling a third in some alley
weirdly lit by a couch on fire, that I

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Ape
by Russell Edson

You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father,
who had monkey hair and blood on his whiskers.

I've had enough monkey, cried father.

You didn't eat the hands, and I went to all the
trouble to make onion rings for its fingers, said mother.

I'll just nibble on its forehead, and then I've had enough,
said father.

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Crazy
by Laxmi Prasad Devkota

1.
Oh yes, friend! I'm crazy-
that's just the way I am.

2.
I see sounds,
I hear sights,
I taste smells,
I touch not heaven but things from the underworld,
things people do not believe exist,

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Transfiguration
by Louisa May Alcott

Mysterious death! who in a single hour
Life's gold can so refine
And by thy art divine
Change mortal weakness to immortal power!

Bending beneath the weight of eighty years
Spent with the noble strife
of a victorious life
We watched her fading heavenward, through our tears.


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Recent Hair Poems
A Sonnet 06: Keep Moving Forward
by Ayatullah Nurjati

This age is increasing
There are still many things that have not been achieved
It's similar to my hair which is changing more and more every day—white like the dry season that leaves the leaves on the tops of the trees, it's so heartbreaking
Although very few expectations are achieved

Like nails and hair that fall off and grow back
It is different with the enemy—friends come and go
The only thing missing is the teeth that never go back
Nothing left with the family, which was never outdated even Though the country was under an embargo


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Whistling Wind in My Hair
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

tunefully tousling
where I go you shall follow
summertime caress

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Hair
by Rumi Ullidov

Balconies of Babylon - where, within a lucid dream,
A vivid memory was born anew.
Grammar structure obsolete.
Rules and obedience forgotten.
Save the shadow of a ginger head,
A ginger hair
In a ginger land...
Of Samson origin or of Helen of Troy
(Of disobedience).
It smells not of ginger,

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A Ballad Of The Two Knights
by Sara Teasdale

Two knights rode forth at early dawn
A-seeking maids to wed,
Said one, "My lady must be fair,
With gold hair on her head."

Then spake the other knight-at-arms:
"I care not for her face,
But she I love must be a dove
For purity and grace."


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I Shall Not Care
by Sara Teasdale

When I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,
Though you shall lean above me broken-hearted,
I shall not care.

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough;
And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted
Than you are now.

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Popular Famous Poets about Hair
  • William Butler Yeats
    William Butler Yeats (63 poems about Hair)
    W.B. Yeats] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939 / County Dublin / Ireland
  • William Schwenck Gilbert
    William Schwenck Gilbert (23 poems about Hair)
    1836 - 1911 / London / England
  • Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde (23 poems about Hair)
    1854-1900 / Dublin / Ireland
  • Lewis Carroll
    Lewis Carroll (19 poems about Hair)
    27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898 / Cheshire
  •  Anonymous Americas
    Anonymous Americas (9 poems about Hair)
    1000-1950 / United States
  •  Ovid
    Ovid (9 poems about Hair)
    43 BCE - 17 CE / Rome / Italy
  • Li Ching Chao
    Li Ching Chao (8 poems about Hair)
    1084 - 1151
  • James Joyce
    James Joyce (8 poems about Hair)
    2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941 / Dublin / Ireland
  • Kalidasa
    Kalidasa (7 poems about Hair)
    4th Century - 5th Century / Ujjain / India
  •  Li-Young Lee
    Li-Young Lee (7 poems about Hair)