Hard

lesson –

grownups don’t

always want truth,

she learned at summer camp when she was nine.

It helps when your older sisters are there

to comfort you

with wise words:

“Avoid

jerks.”

                                                                                       JDG

This poem is written in a poetic form, the double tetractys,  invented by Ray Stebbing. Shadowpoetry.com has the following quote by Ray Stebbing,” Euclid…considered the number series 1, 2, 3, 4 to have mystical significance because its sum is 10, so he dignified it with a name of its own-Tetractys. The tetractys could be Britain’s answer to the haiku. Its challenge is to express a complete thought, profound or comic, witty or wise, within the narrow compass of twenty syllables.”