Wind eaters
Life breathers
Two wheels down
The group pulled into the parking lot
Of our quiet country town
Rumble of big engines
Silenced with a twist of a key
Lift the helmet
She grinned
Brown face
Silver hair
She laughed
Bold
Sun drunk
Shoulders back
Unzipped jacket slung sideways
They looked like they were bigger than the rest of us
Life force strong
They didn’t care to belong to the car park sheep milling about them
Carrying out their ordinary tasks
In their ordinary lives
Why would you?
When you can ride?
*this happened over a decade ago. This woman remains one of my chief inspirations to ride. I think I began googling when I got home how to get my bike licence.
She wasn’t beautiful nor young yet her life force, her energy and obvious love and lightness was tangible – I probably stared.
I love strong women.
Since then I’ve had adventures some good, some not so good but all very …for want of a better word – invigorating.
And that is what life should be – inspiring, invigorating, energising. Not some boring, humdrum half dead walk to the grave.
At the moment a lot of my focus has been on improving my running distances with a large part of that has to do with health – reducing stress and eating well.
So not much poetry or writing getting done.
Went for a ride this morning – recalled in doing so, my original inspiration for buying a motorbike – this woman.
The poem flowed – thank God because frankly with all the running and the cooking and the eating this blog was in danger of turning into a health orientated one.
If anyone is interested in more health orientated topics I may start a different blog for that, till then my Instagram stories will do I guess as I am getting a lot of positive feedback from there.
And at the end of the day there is that small issue of time 🤔😳😁
The poetry will return. It’s not so much that it’s not there actually – it’s just that certain things/people have been annoying me lately and poetry is so transparent.
I can’t write about rainbows and roses when my visceral view is a bit more storm clouds and lightening
Maybe that’s the reason for the blockage
Write the rants and get rid of them
It is a songline after all – my songline and not all tunes are high notes – music would be boring indeed if that was the case.
See how the week pans out – could be a rough one – hopefully see you on the other side…if you haven’t unfollowed 😬😁
