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Were we excited!

Easter egg anticipation

a brisk Canberra in early morning chatter  

bodies primed with no loose matter

waiting for execution

Were we excited!

 

Did we run!

swallowing the track with each disappearing second

striding passed our compatriots with a contemptible smile

to shatter the line in champion style

achieving PBs far more than we reckoned

Did we run!

 

Did we celebrate!

hugging and jumping and fooling around

tears,  laughter – ‘more bubbles please!’

fine food and drink sank down to our knees

then that slow- low morning-after moan

Did we celebrate! - yes we did!

 

Richard Scutter 15 October 2012

1 ... Based on using the same poetry scheme as Thomas Hardy in his poem We Field-Women ( line 1=line 6 then abba with an extension in the last line of the final stanza).