Your two wheels
and metal frame
have penetrated my brain
my two feet no longer
can catch up
to racing thoughts
that swoop on
spinning faster
rounding corners
jumping curbs
coasting
coasting
coasting
down the slightest slopes
you make me fly
with rubber wings
pushing me harder
pumping muscles
steely minded
wind whistling
past me around me
dodging raindrops
and ever increasing
my peripheral vision
pumping euphoria
through my veins
while I dance
on your two wheels.
Look Ma, no hands!
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I have a love affair with my bicycle. These days it is my main mode of transportation for errands and such, which is great, because I love getting out of the house and being outdoors. When I hop on my bike I always end up feeling exhilarated afterwards. Thankfully, everything I need is within a 6 mile radius of my home. I have often quoted the line from the movie Singles, where the cyclist from Expect the Best says, “I just like the way the world looks from a bike.” Me too! I used to think that it was only on sunny, blue sky days, but it’s wintertime now, and I have found that I like riding my bike even on cold days.
I have been reading a lot of Pablo Neruda’s poems lately, and this poem was inspired by his odes to common things.
Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a bilingual poet and translator raised in New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. She is the winner of the 2021 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award, the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize, and in 2018 was selected as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentee by poet Maggie Smith. In 2022 her poetry manuscript, "Eucalyptus," was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Prize from Letras Latinas. The manuscript explores her Sephardic Jewish ancestry and bi-cultural heritage.
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Oh, I remember riding a bicycle with feelings like this. Spinning faster and faster. Coasting. And especially the wind whistling. It definitely IS a euphoric experience on two wheels. You HAVE captured the bicycle feeling here.
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oh very cool…i love cycling..have a road bike in summer and usually bike the 20 km to my workplace….it’s just so good ….love the exercise but even more how it makes the head free
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Wish I could bottle your bicycle love and give it to my younger son, who is still too scared to ride his bike without stabilisers…! Dancing on two wheels – even in horrid weather? Must be love, love, love…
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I totally understand your love affair, I have one with mine. I just wish I lived in a flatter landscape.
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That reminds of my younger days when my friends and I would ride all day long around our neighborhood, making up games and adventures along the way.
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oh I will think of you tomorrow morning
as I spin on my stationary recumbent cycle
safe from the snow and wind in my basement
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This is exhilarating to read!
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Awesome that you can do that!
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You should record this and have it played during spinning classes. The crowd would go wild. You so well captured the exhilaration of cycling.
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love bicycling poems! Wrote one or two myself. Now that I am grown up I have three 🙂
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I like the fast paced & energy running down the page ~ I’m envious of your bicycle runs ~
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very exciting! paints a very vivid and alive picture. you should get a “go-pro” head camera and then combine a reading over the wildly moving images. Love it!
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That is a great idea Jay, I have one!!
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I would love to see and hear the final product!
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omg I haven’t had a bike in years… since I’ve been an adult, actually… well, I’m def going broke to get one now. haha… btw, I noticed your bio says you’re a home education advocate; that’s awesome; I was home schooled… so u go girl.
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Cool Anthony! Don’t need anything fancy though … My bike is 15 years old. Yeah, homeschooling is a passion of mine.
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I love my bicycle too.. Use it every day.. Yes it’s the best way to get about..
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dance on…smiles…as a kid my bicycle was an escape…a vehicle of adventure taking me so many places…now, the cars would probably mow me over trying to get anywhere…i need a bike though…smiles.
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