This Horserider.
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:32 pm
This Horserider.
Upright in his saddle, riding true, riding tall
just easing along beside fences and wall,
he’s come for the thrills of
competing quite soon
at the Innamincka rodeo
which starts around noon.
He is burnt a sun bronze by the
Capricorn glare,
he is handsome, he is tough
with a far outback stare
that comes from flat country
and seein’ for miles
but his skin easily creases
when he lays on his smiles.
The ride down from Birdsville
has been lonely and hot,
but this far in the outback they are
used to their lot.
He knows of the ‘Dig Tree’ and the tragedies there
it’s where Burke and Wills perished after
Gulf Carpentair.
Born, then bred to a saddle from early in life
some drinkin’ - some carousin’ - but kept out of strife.
He knows about cattle spread out over this land,
the muster, the bluster, the red desert sand.
He has ridden Strzelecki, the soft sandy creek
also the dirt track where lesser men weep
before passing the Corner of Cameron fame
then on to Tibooburra
where they all know his name - - -
(c) Rimeriter 2005.
Upright in his saddle, riding true, riding tall
just easing along beside fences and wall,
he’s come for the thrills of
competing quite soon
at the Innamincka rodeo
which starts around noon.
He is burnt a sun bronze by the
Capricorn glare,
he is handsome, he is tough
with a far outback stare
that comes from flat country
and seein’ for miles
but his skin easily creases
when he lays on his smiles.
The ride down from Birdsville
has been lonely and hot,
but this far in the outback they are
used to their lot.
He knows of the ‘Dig Tree’ and the tragedies there
it’s where Burke and Wills perished after
Gulf Carpentair.
Born, then bred to a saddle from early in life
some drinkin’ - some carousin’ - but kept out of strife.
He knows about cattle spread out over this land,
the muster, the bluster, the red desert sand.
He has ridden Strzelecki, the soft sandy creek
also the dirt track where lesser men weep
before passing the Corner of Cameron fame
then on to Tibooburra
where they all know his name - - -
(c) Rimeriter 2005.