Homemade Haircut

[.Lucy.]

I wanted to cut the curl right out of my hair.
I wanted to cut straight through.
I wanted to cut the curl right out of my hair
And it was pretty easy to do.

A funny thing, and I’m not sure why
but my hair gets curlier with length.
Cut a certain way at a certain angle
the curl loses its strength.

With chameleon hair that changes
and varies according to its own opinion,
I decided to cut the curl right out
And stop being it’s minion.

So I picked up the scissors, while
down my back hung those curly locks.
I sliced through the spirals, layering,
my shorn hair gathering around my socks.

Then I realized in the mirror,
I’d cut it much too short! My now straight hair
wasn’t even past my shoulders,
But this was the look I had to sport.

Sure the layers I’d created, cut the curl right out.
But I’d lost more than a foot of hair
Lost all that spiral sassiness,
it felt like there was nothing there!

So I put my hair up, hoping for it to grow back.
Two months later, it’s grown back so fast,
The curl is starting to show. Should I chop it off
again or learn from the past?


LT
12-07-10

[judih]

winter loves hair
hair loves winter

i rest my case

[Lao C Ryter]

What a fun read. Thanks Lucy.

[joel]

I used to cut my hair myself, attempted saving cash.
My haircuts never were good.
A decade later: early bald. My savings plan was rash:
I haven't pictures I would
be liking to have to remember my head
when haircuts were something I could.

[jim turner]

Just proves you can write a good poem about just about anything. Now write one about the "boyfriend" looking at what you've done and saying, "Oh, no!"

[dadio]

Good poem. Learn from the past, Lucy.

[happytrails]

I love this poem and I can so relate. I always cut my hair now that I am old. But I also always wear a hat. Even indoors. I have made myself a whole bunch of hats in all kinds of colours and styles.

But I remember once when I was a young woman getting ready for a date and my hair didn't look "right", so I decided I would just give it a little trim, Then it was shorter on one side than the other, so I cut the other side and then.................well you get the picture. That was the first time I wore a hat instead of a hair do. My hair ended up about two inches long. And MY hair doesn't grow fast.