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Black hair

Cynthia Mansaray

Free verse
Black hair is a movement of its own

It is brave to take heat from a hot comb

The follicles are as fragile as life itself


Black hair cuts and struts

through change a thousand

times

It is a lion in her prime

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This poem is about black hair.

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Written on March 16, 2024

Submitted by Cindy577211399 on March 19, 2024

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Scheme X X X X X X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 212
Words 50
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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