It’s Wednesday it must be time for Friday Fictioneers. The photo this week is courtesy of AnElephanCant – (an elephant obviously can) and we Fictioneers are following the yellow jersey of our tour leader Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. Join us and meet new and interesting writers from all over the globe, we have fun but be warned, it is very addictive and your Wednesdays will never be the same again.
Genre: Poetry
Word Count: 100
Life’s Cycle
We rode side by side in silence lost in thought
Happy in companionable silence
Our love was new in that early carefree time
When you looked at me and saw perfection
And I looked at you in adoration
The years unfolded bringing joy and heartache
At times it seemed in equal measure
We rode out less as our children came
And interrupted our treasured togetherness
We argued and fought like any married couple
Until we found our new direction and grew close again
The same but stronger
Now too old to ride, our cycles gather dust and hold
Our memories
40again's Blog 
… on a bicycle built for two
The rust may build
the hairs may gray
but the wheels of life
will turn our way
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Loved that you took time to reply with another poem – thank you 🙂
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Really nice Dee. The cycle of a relationship… 🙂
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Thank you Sandra, and also for sorting out the junk/spam thing. Seems to be working OK at the moment 🙂
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Well I didn’t actually sort it… akismet/Wordpress did that and I think the problem’s been properly identified now and measures taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again. I just campaigned a bit. 🙂
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beautifully written. i think it’s awesome that you were able to connect the photo with love and marriage. and i love the last two lines a lot .. “Now too old to ride, our cycles gather dust and hold our memories” 🙂
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Thank you kz so pleased you like it. I was thinking about wheels turning, that made me think of life and it just went from there. It’s great how the FFs are inspired to write so many different things from one photo. I love it.
Take care 🙂
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AnElephantCant tell you how happy he is to have provided a small spark for this beautifully nostalgic tale.
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Thank you Elephant I’m pleased that you enjoyed it. It was a great photo and will have inspired many different tales. AnElephantCan take a good photo!
🙂
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Awww that was lovely.
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Thank you Lynn glad you thought so.
Hope you’re all ok there down under 🙂
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Lovely summary of a lifetime using the bike theme!
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Thank you Gabriella, glad you liked it
Dee
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Good thing they didn’t have a tandem. Bill said they call those divorce bikes. 🙂 Sweet poem.
janet
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Hi Janet – funny but was thinking of the old song “bicycle made for two” and although this obviously isn’t a tandem the idea set me off on this track.
Hope you are all well, any news on the house ?
Dee 🙂
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Hello Dee. This is beautiful, rich with the love and the changing of times in a couple’s life. I really like this one!
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Hi Penny – thank you for your kind comments. I’m glad you liked it, was never sure that poetry was my thing, even though I love reading it, but it seemed to fit this time
Dee
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Your writing has been ever so sweet lately, darling, and this is no exception.
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What a lovely comment Helena, thank you.
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Dear Dee,
I thought I’d made a comment earlier from my phone. Doesn’t look like it made it here so I’ll say it again. Had WordPress provided a “love” icon I would’ve clicked it. Beautiful poem.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Dear Rochelle
I know what you mean – it happens to me quite a lot. It is so handy to use your phone when otherwise engaged, but I always check back now to make sure my comment is where it should be.
A lovely comment, thank you so much. I am aiming to get over and read the other FFs later today/tomorrow morning.
Have an enjoyable weekend
Dee
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Wow! A whole lifetime. Dee, you did it! Great poem.
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Thank you kindly sir!
I’m pleased that you liked the poem Kent. Ill be over to read yours later
Have a great weekend
Dee 🙂
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Ooooooohhhhhh Dee I loved this poem. A great idea to write about the cycle of life and love and it is so true (I realise as I grow older) these changes and transitions occur naturally as our lives ebb and flow with the tides.
Touched by the end line;
Now too old to ride, our cycles gather dust and hold
Our memories
If I could like it a million times I would.
Kudos.
A fellow poet! 🙂
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Oh wow, thank you so much.
The changes in life may not always be what we want, but it’s how we handle them that makes us who we are.
Thank you for reading and I’m so pleased you liked my poem.
Have a great weekend
Dee
🙂
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The happy ending really got to me, touched me. Wonderfully done Dee =)
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Thank you Troy, thats good to know.
Have a great weekend
Dee 🙂
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Isn’t that brand new love wonderful? Not as good as a love tempered by time and experience, but like the thoughts of youth, not one to be recaptured. Loved your Poem, Dee
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Hi Mary – yes new love is such a wonderful feeling, but its what happens next, when that heady, breathless, can-take-on-the-world feeling fades that really matters. Thank you for reading, so pleased you enjoyed my poem
Have a great weekend
Dee
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Oh bicycling together is such. A strong bond – I do it every day with my wife (back and forth to work)
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Thanks Bjorn and take care 🙂
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Wonderful story of a couple’s ride together through life–nice one, Dee.
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Thank you VB pleased you like it
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Hi Dee,
A beautiful tribute to long-term relationships. You captured the cycle well. Ron
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Thank you Ron, pleased you liked the poem 🙂
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Dear Dee,
This one falls into the genre of (shall we say) mushy. I’ve written a few of those myself. This is a great life analogy with a perfect title. Well done.
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Thank you Russell, mushy is good sometimes! 🙂
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“Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do?” Looks like she did and a lifetime ensued! We should all have it thus.
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Yes and they cycled happily ever after! Well, almost.
Thanks for reading
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