National Poetry Month 3 of 30:

April is National Poetry Month.  Again this year, inspired by Mary Lee Hahn, I'm going to join other poetry bloggers (view links in sidebar) taking the challenge to share poetry each day during the month of April.  For thirty days my hope is to write a new poem each day.  The first two years I took this challenge I wrote any poem that found me.  This year, however, I've decided to try to write a poem about an object each day.  If you've read Billy Collins' poem, The Lanyard, you may have noticed the way he took an object to tell a much more meaningful story of his relationship with his mother.  My hope is to find the deeper significance in the things around me.  

Unicycle
Getting used to one wheel
was not the hardest thing.
There's steering without handlebars,
without a bar to cling.

One must keep her balance
work hard to not fall down,
the faster you can manage
the more you move around.

It takes a lot of practice,
but soon you too will see,
that one wheel's all that's needed,
on that we can agree.

Doing tricks with one wheel only, 

forward and back you go

ride across thin ramps

put on a special show.  

While bicycles have two wheels
a unicycle needs just one.
Once you get your balance
it really can be fun.

© Cathy L. Mere 2014