The times were against it I suppose, with the Rio
Games echoing suspiciously, and all of Southern
Continent winter sports codes contests reaching
penultimate ends we’re in an inevitable hiatus, &
a place where our Super Rugby series vanishes
Tho’ let me say Wellington’s Hurricanes lent it an
auspicious note of solemnity in trashing Gauteng
Lions 20 points to 3 in a contest, as The Parable
states, which aficionados inevitably see as who’s
true victor over adversity, but dare I mention it, y’
Need be a Wellingtonian. And - it isn’t the end of
an era - we’re on the threshold of a new contest
where South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and
Argentina battle out who’s the best International
Rugby Country, as we Colonials prefer to see it,
So Rio can throb t’ the beat of its Olympic fever,
while we rest up quietly, contemplating the heat
of what we know is yet to come …
© 7 August 2016, I. D. Carswell
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