Poetic cycling

Poetic cycling
English / Nederlands
35 short poems 
Translation / Vertaling: Gijs & Janneke, Joost & Nienke
Autumn / Najaar 2020
Haute Folie Maastricht Netherlands
ISBN 9789403610993
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Miel Vanstreels (1951, Godsheide, Belgium) lives in Maastricht (Southern Limburg, the Netherlands). He has been touring a road bike since he was eleven years old. At home and abroad, preferably in hills and mountains. Musing is his favorite activity when cycling. He captures his reveries in (very) short poems. 

Miel Vanstreels (1951, Godsheide, B) woont in Maastricht. Sinds zijn elfde toert hij rond op een racefiets. In binnen- en buitenland, het liefst over heuvels en bergen. Mijmeren is zijn meest geliefde bezigheid tijdens het fietsen. Die mijmeringen legt hij vast in senryu's, een variant op de haiku.

Poetic cycling

Passo dello Stelvio

With great legs
life is a climb
hors catégorie
...

Southern Limburg

Wherever I cycled -
very few landscapes are so
generous with solace
...

Mortirolo

No matter how long
and steep - stepping down
means everlastig regret
...

Tourmalet

How will I look back
tomorrow - the answer
numbs all the pain
...

Col d'Allos

Breathtaking
landscape - the greater the legs
the better the views
...

Galibier

If soul and legs
find each other - small bliss
at great height
...

Twenty hills

Climbing famous hills
in a lovely landscape -
gently worn out

...

Fate

My sad fate -
slower than slow
up the hills
...

February

The first hills
of the year - happy that my body
still wants to follow my mind
...

Without a title

Cycling is great
if you don't let the years
limit your fun
...

Blessed the cyclist
who lovingly ignores
his lac of talent
...

Cycling with my sweet -
for fifty years dancing
on the pedals of love
...

Two brothers cycle up
a long climb with their dad -
they wistle I wheeze
...

A cycling tourist
who cycles uphill even slower
than me - amazing
...


Miel Vanstreels