a poet is a guy who rides his bike

a poet is a guy who slowly rides his bike 
on the highway emergency lane

  occasionally he stops, jumps over the barriers, kneels down and digs 
  then he rests for a moment his hands under the clods of the field and waits, 
he looks around,
 breathing slowly 
   and then gets back on 

back on track trying to convince those who run without rest 
in the fast lane, 
that beyond the barriers of the so it must be, there is still life, 
there is still earth 
and soil
sun 
light 
and rain 

  sometimes 
  someone turns around, 
  slows down 
and listen 


Marco Bo

 http://cantidallaperiferiadelmondo.blogspot.it/2014/07/il-poeta-e-un-tale-che-gira-in.html