Set the Bar High

For Dick Fosbury, 1968 Olympian Gold Medallist

With a step, skip and hop

he went over the top

with the Fosbury flop.

In eight or ten strides

he approached from the front,

Then turned in a J,

Gave a skip, jump and hop

and went over the top.

Enough of the straddle

and the roll from the west

or the cut from the east,

this true revolutionary

landed flat on his back

but the bar did not shiver.

By thinking it through

and taking straight on

a bar he must conquer

he got the gold medal

and hopped to the top

with the Fosbury Flop.

©Terry Hodgson2020