Grass&Gravel Times
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
 
Once in while a person has to do an internet search to find where his work ends up. Today's search revealed one ended up on Bicycling Life A Web-site for Everyday Bicyclists. I reprint below but this is a pleasant site and reading the rest of the poems and browsing the site is worth the time. I like their attitude towards cycling:

Many bicycle web sites are "event" oriented. Lots are interested on races or racers. Most are seasonally oriented, and a few are advocacy oriented. We are not disinterested in these things. We are simply more interested in the promotion of cycling as a "normal" means of transportation for every day travel needs as well as recreation and healthy exercise.


I don't remember when I submitted this poem but. . .
Bicycle Commute

Stillness returns as I retrace the path
Daily rhythms hold at workday close.

Spirit wind is a constant companion.
Even when the leaves are idle,
The breathe of life is called forth
By the joy of movement.

Time is irrelevant, the sun moves
The mind to reflect on the day
As gravel stones sing a broken melody
And the horizon communicates purpose.

Machine, sacred ring of Black Elk's vision
Revealed in steel and sweat.


 
The Grass&Gravel Times is all about how mindful bicycle riding on grass and gravel creates a poetic vision. We will keep track of new developments at the, Northern Great Plains Poetry Message Deconstruction Zone where the words, spatial presentation, phraseology and margins are tested and presented in the context of cycling-mind-space explorations of the Dakota Denizens. Contact me by email

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