OctPoWriMo Day 15

Today’s prompt is change of perspective. My poem is going to seem “out there” if you don’t read the suggested process.

My Hair’s Covid Dreams
 
My hair is tired of stay-at-home orders.
Tired of being held back by the ties of my face mask.
My hair wants to be blowing free at the beach
basking in the sun.
My hair wants to hang in my plate in a restaurant.
My hair wants to fling around as I dance in public.
 
My hair can’t remember the last time it was cut.
It seems such a waste to wash it and comb it.
Who sees it? Just a couple of people on Zoom.
 
My hair is tired of ponytail elastics.
It’s craving hair jewelry bling.
It’s demanding retail therapy—and not the online kind.
It wants to be dyed—not some inobtrusive color, 
but something sparkly and bold, 
something that will make people take notice.
 
My hair wants a selfie on social media.
My hair want to go viral, and not in a pandemic sort of way.

©ARHuelsenbeck

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monica6453 on October 15, 2020 at 5:58 pm said:

My hair is crying out to be cut and frosted. And finally tomorrow it will get what it wants after 7 months. I’d love to have the colors the pictures have but I’m way too old.

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lifelessons on October 15, 2020 at 6:31 pm said:

Love this..I’ve been hacking at my hair in stages over the past few days. Everything that sticks out, I cut off.. at some times with haircutting scissors, at others with my regular scissors. Yesterday, I grabbed a pair of snubbed-nose children’s scissors. Anything short of a knife will do. An inch or so a day–maybe two. Now I’ve started in on the back. It is sort of addicting.

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isaiah46ministries on October 15, 2020 at 7:09 pm said:

Wonderful.

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jenfullmoon on October 15, 2020 at 9:12 pm said:

I love this. I’m so sick of my pandemic hair but it’s not safe to get it dyed and I have no clue how anyone does it themselves. And if i could get my hair dyed I’d have to get it done my natural color (ugh) because who knows if I can ever get it done again.

Seriously, I ordered a wig online.

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Angela van Son on October 15, 2020 at 11:56 pm said:

I LOVE the poem!!!!!! You’ve caught so many different experiences of this period in such a vivid way. The desire is palpable.

And I also love how everyone’s hair relates, according to the comments 🙂

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Betsy Angene on October 16, 2020 at 1:57 pm said:

I love this poem.

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revivedwriter on October 16, 2020 at 7:00 pm said:

I love this! Also, I can sympathize with wanting “retail therapy — and not the online kind.” I miss walking around, browsing a real store!

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Raymond L on May 21, 2022 at 4:07 pm said:

Thanks for a great read.

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