Ho Chi Minh

[Delta40]

motorcycles weave
like water channels
zoom by me
across my sight
either side
wherever I look
I can only trust
vibrant peoples
will swerve past me
as I wander
down market alleys
and roads
with no rules

[PrinceMyshkin]

What there is of this is vibrant and true. I only wish there had been more of it.

[Hawkman]

I really like this poem D40 but I feel that the format on this occasion is not doing it any favours. May I suggest;

"Motorcycles weave
like water channels,
zooming by me
across my sight
on either side
wherever I look.
I can only trust
the vibrant people
will swerve past me
as I wander down
market alleys
and roads with no rules."

which is just so much easier to read. Thanks for sharing the poem, best, H

[Bar22do]

Lady D40, we who have no rules rely on the rules of others... it's our one rule. Though you put it so artfully!
A pleasure to read plus a hope that you also wander up the roads!

Best wishes, Bar

[AuntShecky]

There is definitely an urgency and an immediacy about this. (I'm trying to puzzle out the title, though.)

[Hawkman]

Think it refers to the city in Vietnam Auntie. H

[Delta40]

Thanks everyone. Hawk, you're definitely right. I arrived here yesterday, jet lagged and agog at the site of this place. Its all I could muster. still working out why 140,000 dong is worth $8! I'm a millionaire here lol. Today I'm going to visit the war museum.

[Jerrybaldy]

Hello Australia. You invented "No rules" . God love ya.
JB

[qimissung]

Lucky! This is a fine, vivid piece of writing, and your going to have so much more to write while your there!

[AuntShecky]

Think it refers to the city in Vietnam Auntie. H

I knew that, and also the infamous trail with that name, but I still can't make the connection to Delta's poem.

[Delta40]

I was struck by the abundance of motor cycles and seeming lack of road rules in the congested atmosphere, a sharp contrast to traffic flows in Australia, if this helps you.

[breathtest]

'I was struck by the abundance of motor cycles and seeming lack of road rules in the congested atmosphere, a sharp contrast to traffic flows in Australia, if this helps you.'

...and the poem captures it perfectly!