Joe’s triathlon consisted of a 750m swim,
A hand bike race which covered 20km,
And then a wheelchair race for 5km grim:
Joe collapsed on the Rio finish line fen.
But he came sixth, a good Royal Marine,
Stepped on an IED in Helmand in 2008,
Both legs amputated, a chair did him fine,
He’s the only w/c user with UKSCA gait.
He first competed in Ironman UK triathlon,
In 2011, and In the London Paralympics,
He carried the Paralympic Flame icon,
In the opening show, up in the air - antics.
2013 at the ETU Para-triathlon Euros,
In Antalya, Turkey, and Joe won bronze,
2014 and the next ETU, Kitzbühel pose,
And Joe took deserved Austrian bronze.
In Rio back in 2015 at the ITU Worlds,
Joe stole 4th place, and in Penrith 2016,
At more ITU Worlds, Joe’s silver cords,
Were awarded from a 2nd place steam.
In Lisbon at the 2016 ETU Euro Champs,
Joe came home 3rd taking bronze position,
And in French Besançon his bright lamps,
Were bronze lamps again, composition.
Categories:
penrith, sports, strength,
Form: Quatrain
Rupert Lang set out from London,
it was ten minutes to eight.
He meant to travel to the Midlands
to be with his dad in hospital
in Birmingham. Weather forecast:
chance of rain.
Peter Smith drove down from Penrith,
he was traveling to Dover
to take the channel tunnel to spend
the next two weeks vacationing
with his family in France.
On a section of the M1 south of Birmingham
a Vauxhall Vega, its driver asleep at the wheel,
jumped the grassy median into the north-bound lanes
and crashed headlong into a Ford Cortina.
An unclaimed hotel reservation
and the latest Playboy magazine
fluttered to rest, side by side,
on the shoulder close to exit 31.
Categories:
penrith, death
Form: Verse
Robert Lang set out from London,
it was ten minutes to eight.
He meant to travel to the Midlands
to be with his dad in hospital
in Birmingham. Weather forecast:
chance of rain.
Peter Smith drove down from Penrith,
he was traveling to Dover
to take the channel tunnel to spend
the next two weeks vacationing
with his family in France.
On a section of the M1 south of Birmingham
a Vauxhall Vega, its driver asleep at the wheel,
jumped the grassy median into the north-bound lanes
and crashed headlong into a Ford Cortina.
An unclaimed hotel reservation
and the latest Playboy magazine
fluttered to rest, side by side,
on the shoulder next to exit 31.
Categories:
penrith, loss
Form: Verse
Rupert Lang set out from London,
it was ten minutes to eight.
He meant to travel to the Midlands
to be with his dad in hospital
in Birmingham. Weather forecast:
chance of rain.
Peter Smith drove down from Penrith,
he was traveling to Dover
to take the channel tunnel to spend
the next two weeks vacationing
with his family in France.
On a section of the M1 south of Birmingham
a Vauxhall Vega, its driver asleep at the wheel,
jumped the grassy median into the north-bound lanes
and crashed headlong into a Ford Cortina.
An unclaimed hotel reservation
and the latest Playboy magazine
fluttered to rest, side by side,
on the shoulder close to exit 31.
Categories:
penrith, loss,
Form: Narrative