Ode To Rugby League

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Ode to Rugby League

Biography Thomas Keneally


We got to the cupboard, we take out club colours.

And the air sings. The season’s close.

Our boys are running up sandhills, their legs pump.

This season, this season, this is our season.

This year we all start equal.

Kids paint signs, and I am seven again.

I know I will see heroes soon.

I feel the excitement.

I have hope in March, and I might share in the glory of September.

Blow that whistle, ref.

Send that ball soaring.

Blow that whistle ref.


Thomas Keneally
Poem sourced from: Mahoney, B. (2009). Poetry Reloaded. Melbourne, VIC: Cambridge University Press

Photo from: http://www.rugbyleaguedigest.com.au/images/nrl-channel-9-rugby-league-free-to-air-viewing-2001.jpg