I appreciate everyone's "measured" enthusiasms. This prose-poem is whatever you want it to be. That is one of the virtues of poetry. Bike forums are just one of the many venues for my work. I will explain some of the functions of my prose-poetry as follows.-Ron Price, George Town, Tasmania
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My poetry and prose allows me to release surplus, excess, energy and an abundance of thought and desire which I am unable to assimilate and give expression to in my everydayness and its quotidian features. The entire body of my work is an expression of thoughts, desires, passions, beliefs and attitudes which I am unable to find a place for amidst the ordinary. This literary opus adorns the ordinary; it enriches my everyday experience, as if from a distance. I have come to see and feel my literary efforts as if they were a breeze en passant over my multifaceted daily life. I do not write to convince or proselytise, but as a form of affirmation of all that has meaning and significance in life, my life and, by implication and since all humans share so much in common, Everyman's. I write of that foul rag and bone shop, as the poet W.B. Yeats called the heart, and of that golden seam of joy in life, of frailty and strength and of the abyss of mental anguish and a heart exulting unaggrieved.

An additional part of my oeuvre is an epistolary narrative written over fifty years, 1957 to 2007. This epistolary work is driven by a desire to write and writing that is acquired, refined and thought about over a lifetime, with a core of facticity and a periphery of interpretation, imagination, intuition, sensory activity and an everyday analysis in the context of these letters. The inclusion of this collection of letters and more recently emails and internet posts in its many sub-categories is part of my effort This epistolary narrative is intendedto provide a prose-poetry mix of sensory and intellectual impressions to try to capture the texture of a life, however ineffably rich and temporarily fleeting, in one massive opus, one epic form, with branches leading down such prolix avenues that its total form is most probably only of use as an archive and not as something to be read by this generation.

At the present time there are some 50 volumes of letters, emails and internet posts under ten major divisions of my epistolary collection. The third division of the ten contains my contacts with sites on the internet and there are some 25 volumes of site contacts at: site homepages, forums, discussion boards and blogs with their postings and replies, inter alia.

Sometimes site administrators, bemused by my offerings, deregister me; sometimes they give me advice but mostly I am accepted as, perhaps a little eccentric but on the whole an enrichment to site content.-Ron Price