The Rider

• Nicholas Conomos, Grade 8, St Mary's Cathedral College
• Poetry
• 2016

Excellence Award in the 'Top Secret 2016' competition

The horse it gallops
The horse wearing a glare
It feels free with the wind in its hair

The bull gets chased by a long lasso
The bull panics it doesn’t know what to do
The lasso cracks and swishes about
It hits the bull right on the snout

The man wearing country clothes and a stern face
He tells his horse to pick up the pace
The man leans back and swishes the lasso
The bull freezes on the spot
And the bull is what the man has got

The bull bucks up
The horse it whines
The man falls off and cracks his spine
And later that night… the dingos will dine!