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Jimmy Greaves haikus ( Get Well Soon)

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 you in those long shorts
on scrapbook pages and walls
always my hero

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3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 to ape your swivel
on concrete fields by street light
how I tried and tried

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5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 blurred in blue and white
you dancing past defenders
endlessly that day

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7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 cold December day
Jimmy netting five with ease
soaked in wind and rain

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9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 your last four-goal match
I ran on that field un-checked
just to say goodbye

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11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 bound for Italy
on that whistle we all cried
please don’t leave Jimmy

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13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 so great in those days
like Best and Gazza gifted
until your playing stopped

Notes

First published Feb 2010. Please get well Jim. All best wishes from everyone at Football Poets.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/jimmy-greaves-haikus-get-well-soon/