A Parkour Poem…

Free Hands
by steelie

Now, here’s a little story
about why I haven’t been there.
It holds a little PK lesson,
which is why I thought I’d share.

This tale of absenteeism,
begins en route to work.
Between my car and office,
a certain trap did lurk.

I try to trace each morning
to keep the senses ready.
But on this faithful morning,
me, sadly, not so steady.

I ran along a three-foot wall
as many times before,
and when I reached the end
I jumped and tried to soar.

So, here began the problem with
the bag on my left shoulder,
the strap across my body,
the right hand gripped to hold ‘er.

I landed, let’s say, oddly,
and as gravity will tell,
I tried to save the ship my friends
but yup, I tripped and fell.

I’ve been here many times before
and dove and tucked and rolled.
Although I had full trust in me,
Right Hand would not un-hold.

So, onto my right shoulder
my weight came crashing down,
Right Hand could not prevent
the awful crunching sound.

And now I’ve missed three weeks,
I still might be a while.
Thankfully, nothing’s broken
So I can’t help but smile.

I learned a priceless lesson
to help my zig and zag,
Now when I practice Parkour,
I skip the shoulder-bag.

Yes, now I have a backpack,
I runs, I jumps, I lands.
Now here’s the moral boys and girls:
“Free-runners need free hands”.

:^)

I hope to be out again soon.
Save me a spot. Cheers.

6 comments
  1. Nice poem. I wish I had your creativity!
    Stylin291

  2. Thanks.
    I had actually missed a few weeks due to the injury but hadn’t had the opportunity to let the other traceurs (PK practitioners) know why. When I went to send the email, the first couple of sentences started to rhyme in my head and the rest came quite easily… The funny thing is that I can never write like this when I want to, only when I don’t set out to.

    steelie

  3. That was such a nice poem! OOO! I liked it.

  4. Nice, is that true? what happend, if it is, that must ave sucked.

  5. @blacklight: Thanks! It started out as just an email as to why I had been missing in action but certain things started to rhyme and I just went with it.

    @G-MAN: Yeah… true story. And yeah, it did suck. I couldn’t do Parkour for a while. Even when my shoulder overall felt fine, doing any kind of parkour really put strain on it.

  6. Great Poem I loved it 😀 Keep it on

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