Poetry in motion - but alas no more.

Not often a bike gets mentioned by the Poet Laureate.

"What was your special charm Simon Powell?
Your silver smile;
How you held your face aloft,
a trophy, when you laughed.
You had style,
swooping towards Swansea
On your Moto Morini,
Bravo, bravo! pale rider."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/28/germaine-greer-simon-powell-poetry

I remember him from the early days of the MRC. RIP Simon, "take it to
the limit one more time".

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Was he in the Eagles too?

 

No.
HTH
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Sorry - still in "70s lyrics" mode.

 

Not a Poet Laureate, but:

Across the open countryside,
Into the walls of rain I ride.
It beats my cheek, drenches my knees,
But I am being what I please.
The firm heath stops, and marsh begins.
Now we're at war: whichever wins
My human will cannot submit
To nature, though brought out of it.
The wheels sink deep; the clear sound blurs:
Still, bent on the handle-bars,
I urge my chosen instrument
Against the mere embodiment.
Though so oppressed I find I may
Through substance move. I pick my way,
Where death and life in one combine,
Through the dark earth that is not mine,
Crowded with fragments, blunt, unformed;
While past my ear where noises swarmed
The marsh plant's white extremities,
Slow without patience, spread at ease
Invulnerable and soft, extend
With a quiet grasping toward their end

 

Johnny Tillotson? I don't think so.

 

And a Trophy, too.....

 

And a Bravo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Honda_Bravo.jpg

 

Bzzt! Models, not marques.
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Thom Gunn. Not seen that before.

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NAHAY?

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/9a223375b573e909

 

He was a keen biker:

In gleaming jackets trophied with the dust,
They strap in doubt - by hiding it, robust -
And almost hear a meaning in their noise.
....
One is always nearer by not keeping still.

[OT] 'Claus von Stauffenberg' is one of my favourite poems.

 

Before my time.

Have you read "To the Wedding" by John Berger (author of "Ways of
Seeing"). Some good motorcycle riding passages in that, as well as being
a good book generally.

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from Richard Thompson

Said Red Molly to James that's a fine motorbike
A girl could feel special on any such like
Said James to Red Molly, well my hat's off to you
It's a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952
And I've seen you on the corners and cafes it seems
Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme
And he pulled her on behind and down to Boxhill they did ride

 

Shite and it doesn't scan.

 

Actually, that's shit quality.

This:

 

Have some of thi8s then,

I don't want a pickle,
I just want to ride on my motor sickle
And I don't want a tickle
I just want to ride on my motor sickle
And I don't want to die
I just want to ride on my motor cy
cle.

Late last night the other day
I went round and I saw Ray
Ray he didn't have much to say
except
I don't want a pickle....

 

It's not a big motorcycle
Just a groovy little motorbike
It's more fun that a barrel of monkeys
That two wheel bike
We'll ride on out of the town
To any place I know you like

First gear (Honda Honda) it's alright (faster faster)
Second gear (little Honda Honda) I lean right (faster faster)
Third gear (Honda Honda) hang on tight (faster faster)
Faster, it's alright

It climbs the hills like a Matchless
Cause my Honda's built really light
When I go into the turns
Lean with me and hang on tight
I better turn on the lights
So we can ride my Honda tonight

Or, we could just add a clause to rule 16, call it "m" - motorcycle
music. Googling "motorcycle songs" gives at least a dozen pages of
them.

 

Double phew.

I thought you might have reposted some shit from my house...