So it's been a couple of years since my last post. Riding my bike has still been a main stay in my life. Last week it was crazy beautiful and perfect riding weather.


Unfortunately I seem to be having some issues with my shoulder so no riding. Now it's rainy crappy weather and well my shoulder still hurts. Think I'll just have to "ride through it". This summer I hope to go on some longer rides going on different trails. That being the case I need to start doing longer rides.
I read a poem that Nikki Giovanni wrote about biking. She feels that riding a bike is a metaphor for life. Riding a bike is about balance and trust. If you want to read more refer to the interview with Bill Moyers.
I loved the poem.



"Midnight poems are bicycles


Taking us on safer journeys

Than jets

Quicker journeys

Than walking

But never as beautiful

A journey

As my back

Touching you under the quilt



"Midnight poems

Sing a sweet song

Saying everything

Is all right



"Everything

Is

Here for us

I reach out

To catch the laughter



"The dog thinks

I need a kiss



"Bicycles move

With the flow

Of the earth

Like a cloud

So quiet

In the October sky

Like licking ice cream

From a cone

Like knowing you

Will always

Be there



"All day long I wait

For the sunset



"The first star

The moon rise



"I move

To a midnight

Poem

Called

You

Propping

Against

The dangers"