...we were only 17 and we were barely dressed … but that was in the potting shed.

This sounds like a poem about betrayal.
But who cares, bikes are mere toys for juvenile boys. :)

Wanna saddler?

I yes my one time favorite mode of transportation, now left to only memories
budd

Is this Teen or True confessions about a past life...? -e-

It's a wonder that so many of those white bearded crotchety kneed bikers survived after stealing all the girls with their brash behavior.

Ron

Many will remember their wild old fun days from this poem. You have done wonders with your words.

Sandie

There is subtext in this. Seems most everything these days devolves in one way or another. It gets harder and harder to sift through what we don't like to find something we do. Peace... r

This is a skillfully conceived and delightfully apt piece, Ch'eri, and a nice 'opener' to have you back amongst us, again. Your subject is one that many of us can readily fathom and appreciate, especially those with more years on the life-odometer than others. The symbolism is deft, the length just right and the analogues chosen quite perfect, in my opinion. On a parallel (if only indirectly related) note, I started off my life with a small red Honda motorbike, that I traded successively for larger machines as the decades progressed. Today, although old enough to know better than to trust my life to others (dipsh*ts) who carelessly drive their impervious armoured tanks in the freeway high-speed lanes, I still keep a beast in the garage (although not a Harley, but a zero-to-60-in 2.7 seconds Japanese kamikaze rocket) today, next to more pedestrian bicycles. The figurative transition through life, from immature youth to doleful seniority, is well portrayed in 'Red Roar'! It's an excellent way of 'reinserting' your presence here, in the Author's Den Community. Good on ya, Sheleagh!

A fine picture duly revealed with poetic hues of the rainbow of history... "RED ROAR" glows as it shows the face of the old days.

Greetings to Author/Poet Ch'erie Perrot.

Feb. 17-19

Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU