Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Bicycling

The most popular bicycle model—
and most popular vehicle of any kind
in the world—is the Chinese Flying Pigeon,
 with some 500 million in service.^[1]

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, 
should always be the vehicle 
of novelists and poets. 
~Christopher Morley

Life is like riding a bicycle. 

To keep your balance you

must keep moving. 

~ Albert Einstein, letter to

his son Eduard, 1930.

Midweek Motif ~ Bicycling

Each bicycle has taken part in many stories.  Each cyclist is a protagonist and maybe even antagonist, supporting character and audience to the drama.  Maybe some have a philosophy of bicycling as well.  Do you?

Write a poem with a bicycling motif.  

Nikki Giovanni reads "Bicycles"  from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.  

From her book Bicycles: Love poems.

Ode to Bicycles (Oda a la bicicleta)

by Pablo Neruda

I was walking

down

a sizzling road:

the sun popped like

a field of blazing maize,

the

earth

was hot,

an infinite circle

with an empty

blue sky overhead.

A few bicycles

passed

me by . . . .

(Read the rest in both Spanish and English HERE!)

Please:
  

1.      Post your  new  bicycle  poem on your site, and then link it here.

2.      Share only original and new work written for this challenge. 

3.      Leave a comment here.

4.      Honor our community by visiting and commenting on others' poems.

(Next Midweek Motif = the color Green)

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