Almanac Poetry: ‘Warnie’ – Bill Wootton

 

Warnie 

 

Big Bash cricket suited

distractible attention spans

But still there were those long, slow, fast bowler run-ups

Cricket fans seek constant

money shots

Look at all those replays

even mid-over

They want more

clash moments

where ball thumps

into moving or still wood

or misses the lot

 

Step in, Mr Warne

Two or three small steps actually

and launch

See it land

and dart

or even more bewilderingly

go gun barrel straight

Whip it back

and here he comes again

 

The traps

the cajoling

the reckoning

the appeal

was obvious

 

That and the fact

that he took over 700 wickets

 

 

 

 

 

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