Grand Final Fever

                                Aussie Rules at MCG

Gala award Brownlow Medal Monday night,

season’s best, fairest, centre stage, TV spotlight,

glamorous partners, Red Carpet, special highlight,

provocative, curved cleavage, voyeur’s delight.

                                                                           

Future of seductive sensuous designs

will titillate, stimulate, even if aura declines,

imagine, males bare chested, diamante brief,

demising couture fashion, beyond belief.

 

CBD Friday, crowd at parade cheer favourite team,

fanatics fantasize premiership in their dream,

friends, families, kids, celebrate with glee

one eyed, eagerly await fulfilment, at the G.

 

CBD Sat'day arvo, interstate, country, fans, meet

in sunshine, atmosphere electric, joyous feat,

pies, burgers, amber fluid, a social cohort,

off to hallowed turf, Grand Final of our sport

 

Thousands, rainbow shades, stream into ground,

siren, centre bounce, crowd roars, explosive sound,

club colours, caps, scarves, tops, dazzling day,

speed, handball flows, teams’ structured play.

 

Player with ball, tackled, dives, stacks on mill,

umpires inconsistent, allow manhandling at will,

rugby scrum, Aussie Rules dynamics falter, now fails,

ball dribbles out, defenders grasp, wind in their sails.

 

Skills diminish, stop, start, flooding out of control,

no team member up forward to score a goal,

kicks backwards, crowd bored, boo, blast,

recalls past, rules interpretation must not last. 

 

Final siren, winner receives rip-roaring accolade,

vanquished, fervent fans disappointed, dismayed.                                                                             

 

Alan Pinkus                                                         alpinkuspoetry.blogspot.com