This Old Woman

(Describing myself from outside)

This old woman, slightly fat,

wears bright colours,

silver jewellery, crystals

and low-heeled shoes.

The pendants around her neck

are on cords she made

from shoelaces, knotted

to be adjustable.

The first one depicts

a five-pointed star

disguised inside

a five-petalled rose.

If people enquire,

to most she will say,

'Isn’t it beautiful?

It's a Celtic knot.'

Those to whom

she might say,

'It’s my pentacle; I'm Pagan,'

seldom need to ask.