Romancing The Beard

What women are attracted to
Though to some it may seem weird
Is a man who has a curl-i-que
That we’ve come to call a beard

They seem to love what’s hair-ly
On the chin and down below
That hair they find so rarely
Is that hair that they can’t grow

They love that tickly feeling
When caressing bearded men
Those beards just send them reeling
For those men they have a yen

These ladies have this craving
For men with chin filled bristles
These men who do no shaving
Who have these chin filled frizzles

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poem by Stanley Cooper
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For An Old Man (Baltimore 1968)

i saw an old man today
he was all of ninety years
gray hair and whiskers did grow
round his ears

i asked him why he penciled notes
upon a browning pad
i do it to pass the day, he said
to keep from being sad

was he the wiser of generations
are we the age he has been
or is he just the passing of time
and of bottled gin

i saw an old man today
he was all of ninety years
gray hair and whiskers
did shadow his lonely tears

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poem by Steven S. Walsky
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A beard well lathered is half shaved.

Italian proverbs
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On a fool's beard all learn to shave.

Portuguese proverbs
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Every man is the king of his own beard.

Iranian proverbs
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Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.

Romanian proverbs
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A heavy heart seldom combs a gray beard.

Irish proverbs
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Brains are not to be found in the beard.

Indian proverbs
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The beard does not make the philosopher.

Italian proverbs
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Wisdom is in the head, not in the beard.

Ukrainian proverbs
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Flies know well the sweet seller's beard.

Lebanese proverbs
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The cat well knows whose beard she licks.

Portuguese proverbs
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Hair and hair make the carlo's beard bare.

Scottish proverbs
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If the beard were all, goats could preach.

Danish proverbs
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With this beard you want to go to Tajrish?

Persian proverbs
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Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

quote by John Greenleaf Whittier
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Eight Words, Four Seasons And I Am Old

Autumn beard
Invading winter

Spring memory
Summer gone

poem by Martin Lochner
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Wisdom is in the head and not in the beard.

Swedish proverbs
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A priest's beard is always soaked in butter.

Russian proverbs
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Who spits against the wind, fouls his beard.

Dutch proverbs
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