"Dancing in the Rain" Something I wrote several years ago.

[BikeWriter]

Dancing in the Rain

Born deep in the forest,
far from the prying eyes of mortal men,
a small creature flits ceaselessly
‘round the perilous rack and fen.
It searches for a bit of *Magicke*
to keep it’s Age Olde Race intact,
snooping in the Neverlands,
Stealthy Fugitive from Truth and Fact!
A raptor plummets from the sky,
cruel talons spread…..
Shrill Scream of Pain...
THE ANCIENT TRIBE IS DEAD!
Forest Giants tremble,
they moan this sad refrain, “
We’ll never see their like again,
dancing in the rain...”
BikeWriter
1/29/2000

[oneighty]

1. Nice

180

[BikeWriter]

2. Thank you, Oneighty. I see you're a Korean Vet.

Welcome home and thank you for your service to America. I took a tour of VietNam back in 1967 and 1968.

[oneighty]

3. Ah!

I went to Korea spring 52. 1968 I was invited back into the Navy. "No, no." I say to the recruiters.

What service? There are a lot of Vietnam Vets in DU.

Welcome home to you.

Do you write a lot of poetry?

180

[BikeWriter]

4. I have one other I'll post here, Oneighty

I was Air Force, and stationed at Pleiku, Air Base. These two are the only poems I've written that I value. I do have about a quarter of a million words written in three fiction books. One is a western, another is a semi-biographical book about outlaw bikers, and the third is a sword and sorceror sort of thing.


A tale of a life at sea.

T'was fifty years ago or more,
young lad stood on fog-shrouded shore,
and shivered as ghostly sails slid past,
draped limply from tall, phantom masts.
Fearsome crewboat ran ashore,
boney fingers 'round worn, water-logged oars.
T'were Satan, himself, at the helm,
beckoned me to board.
Tis' many a hellish sight I've seen,
from Spanish Main to England green,
Old man now, worn and gray,
I come ashore, ne'er again to stray.
BikeWriter

[oneighty]

5. A sailor, as I was

can wrap their thoughts about that.

Your books. Are they published? I have a collection of life stories, poems and such in a self published book- 230,000 words or so. (Words) tells me so. And that many more stuffed in boxes here and there.

180

[BikeWriter]

6. No, I haven't published anything as yet.

A fellow veteran who was publishing a small local paper and the Texas State Vietnam Veteran's paper put one of the tamer chapters of my biker book in the state paper for me. That's the only section that has seen light of day, except for portions of it I've let people read to critique. I've considered self-publishing that one book. I think it would sell at bike shops and runs. Until I can do something like that I'm still editing.

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. your poems are

beautiful

(180 told me I should read them--as usual he was right)

[BikeWriter]

8. Why, thank you, Jitterbug! I'd written those quite a while ago.

They were a change from my usual fiction. :)

[BikeWriter]

10. I had to come read 180's kind words again.

:(

[BikeWriter]

9. Thank you for refering readers my way, my Friend.

:)