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Just to show I can write shorter pieces

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Never grow bitter

Bare feet, faded denims,
long straight black hair
turning prematurely grey.
A waist-high Irish Wolfhound 
stands placidly alongside.
Leashed on a thick rope,
with a leather bound loop
around her skinny wrist,
jostling for space with blue beads
and a well worn mystery plait.

A Grandma by thirty,
a great Gran before forty five.
She'll be nearing sixty now,
heading for grand matriarch status.

A life lived 'on the wild side',
but still strangely innocent.
Some people roll with the blows,
own their own mistakes,
and never grow bitter.

Gyppo

Shorter piece?  3 verses, 19 lines, 89 words.  

You bet. 

So short we'll call this  Gyppo Haiku. 

Very nice poem, by the way.  I like the way you wind the story.

Cheers.

T

Gyppo Haiku

I wrote a haiku once, with the correct syllable count, explaining why I don't like writing haikus.  It's in the archives somewhere, but so far I can't find it.  I may have to search through the 'old place'.  But not tonight.