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The Beauty Of Your Hair

Sylvia Wohlfarth
Published in
2 min readDec 18, 2022

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A Homage

Unfurling tresses of freedom,
the freedom of tearing down, tearing off, tearing up.
Shaking off the yoke of patriarchal power,
as well as the oppression of the other colour.

A call to the wind to caress with its breath
and only its breath, and only gently,
the coif upon your heads and loosen those other…

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Sylvia Wohlfarth

An Irish-Nigerian soul living in Ireland after 40 years in Germany. A social anthropologist, English teacher, and more. With stories to share; and an opinion…