School Pictures – Bad Hair Day

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Bad Hair Day
Never, never ask your mom to cut your hair the night before school pictures.

School pictures can be angst or fun
With memories of joy or regrets.
You wore your nice dress, gave a big smile
For one captured moment, your best.

But sometimes those moments
Were less than sublime
Sometimes they captured
A miserable time

When you tried to create
What wasn’t there
I pleaded and begged
“Mom, please cut my hair.”

I want my hair cut
Just like Sara Grace
All nice and smooth
Every hair in its place.

“But I don’t know how,”
My mother protested,
“To cut fancy hairdos.”
But I was persistent.

So Mom cut my hair
Evened it up with my chin
But I wanted it shorter
And it had to curve in.

Against her good judgement
She did as I asked her
While this bad hair experiment
Turned into disaster.

“What happened to your hair?”
Asked the girls, “Why’d you do it?”
I could only reply
That we tried but we blew it.

When the pictures came back
It was just as I feared
The smile was quite brave
But the hair was right weird!

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Janice D. Green, wife, mother, and grandmother, retired after over 20 years in the public school system, most which were as an elementary librarian, with a goal to write Christian children's books. Her most recent releases are Jonah: The Fearful Prophet and The Creation (second edition) which are both published in three different formats. Janice's passion is to write about the Bible in a way that encourages people to want to know more and to read it for themselves. She also quilts and hopes to inspire families and youth groups to create Bible quilts for children. www.honeycombadventures.com www.biblequilts.com.

2 Comments

  • Hmm, well you asked for it, and she did her best…

    Always be careful what you ask for. I love the poem Janice. Well done.

    Carolyn Cordon 27.01.2012
    • You are so right, Carolyn. I really pushed her to cut it. I wanted a short cute haircut so badly.

      JaniceDGreen 27.01.2012

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