Image: "The Beast" outside Clarks on arrival, I'd made really good time mainly due to the roads being surprisingly clear, and The Beast having plenty of power. In the background is The Royal Standard Clark flew to celebrate my arrival and let others know I was there. He is pictured in the backgound with his friend Blanca

 

 

23.11.22 – 90) Alarm rings I wake to find last nights events still in my mind

A night of sharin’ my rhyme, been waitin’ for it a long time

What should have happened last year was at last here

An’ it was go, let the poetry an’ questions flow

Poems written on location, from riverside to service station

Had a ball, good time had by all. One thing clear, we hope to do it again next year

But for now I can’t be dwellin’ cos; there’s a little voice tellin’

Me there’s somewhere else I gotta be, for my 2022 Poetry Tour Part 3

 

90) Once more car stowed ready to hit the road

Breakfast, an’ to the motel staff I say “bye” then I gotta fly

But first a prayer to drive with care

Then away before daybreak, GPS telling which route to take

Tells me to take the route through Big Lake. An’ then to I-10

So I’m on my way, coffee in my thermal cup, when needed to perk me up

Soon it’s break of day, an’ a sky of grey, throwin’ bouts of rain my way

Roads is quiet no one else I see, it’s like it’s only me

Can’t believe it’s so quiet on Thanksgiving Eve

Still morning gloom I’m on the I-10 and need the rest room

On way once more ain’t been on this part before

Get the music flowin’ as I’m goin’

San Antonio gas really cheap, fill up here an’ again save a heap

This time it ain’t so dour it’s past rush hour

Go through steady, soon it’s done I’m on the familiar 2-8-1

Sign I see tells me where I need to be

Got the music on once more from Country to Classical score

Down the road I’m flyin’, almost cryin’

Cryin’ with joy, my mind in a whirl

At the thought of meetin’ Ivy again, my favourite canine girl

But can’t let the emotion stop the motion

Further McAllen bound, when I arrive it’s hugs all round

Drivin’ down I’ve given my best, now time for a well earned rest