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“Ricky’s Beach”, circa 197? from “Living The Life” –Image by © Doug Barber
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Having featured the photography of Doug Barber (AKA Q-Ball) in “Living The Life”, it’s now time to honor the epic biker poetry of Eddi Pliska (AKA Sorez the Scribe). Like I said, his scribes throttle, brake, and pull no punches and together with Doug they have created a 1%er’s masterpiece that is truly one of a kind. Sorez’s work has graced the pages of Outlaw Biker Magazine, Easyriders, and he’s a member of the Highway Poets Motor Cycle Club– “America’s Only Bike Club Of Published Journalists.”
Sorez’s love of the biker lifestyle started at the tender age of ten yrs old when he picked up his first copy of Easyriders, and at thirteen he got his first bike– a Harley-Davidson 350cc Sprint that he walked ten miles to his home and repaired himself. Sorez never finished high school– instead learning life on the streets, and finding family and friends in the clubhouse– some still brothers some 30 years later. He’ll always remember on caring teacher telling him on his way out– “Don’t ever give up writing. One day your works shall be read.”
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You can buy the book “Living the Life” here
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The Selvedge Yard 
Brilliant !
great stuff……..
Truly do appreciate the write up, it was an honor and privilege working with Q-Ball on this project! As a disclaimer I need to state, ex-President of the Highway Poets.. no longer affiliated. Current ~ Co-Founder of the Road Scribes Of America! A Fellowship of the Pen ~ the Wind ~ the Road
http://www.roadscribesofamerica.com
JP,
Thank you again for featuring Sorez’s and my work. Biker poetry has been around as long as there has been two wheeled motorized horses. Cowboy poetry gained a recognized status years ago. Like many aspects of the bikers world, biker poetry has been viewed at best as a curiosity. As I mentioned in my book, it was Sorez’s work that helped me finalize my vision of “Living The Life”. Sorez is a 24/7/365 biker. He lives breaths and writes with a conviction that only someone with real life experience can. I am proud to be his “Brother” and “Known Associate”.
Long May You Ride,
Doug Barber AKA Q-Ball
Id expect that more biker poetry would be about the experience itself and less philosophizing
Like this, by Larry Ferlinghetti, who might be called a BICYCLE poet:
The Changing Light
The changing light
at San Francisco
is none of your East Coast light
none of your
pearly light of Paris
The light of San Francisco
is a sea light
an island light
And the light of fog
blanketing the hills
drifting in at night
through the Golden Gate
to lie on the city at dawn
And then the halcyon late mornings
after the fog burns off
and the sun paints white houses
with the sea light of Greece
with sharp clean shadows
making the town look like
it had just been painted
But the wind comes up at four o’clock
sweeping the hills
And then the veil of light of early evening
And then another scrim
when the new night fog
floats in
And in that vale of light
the city drifts
anchorless upon the ocean
Cynthia,
Poetry like any art form is personal and incorporates one’s own perspective of reality. We make it, we share it, we hope others will take the time to appreciate it. No art form is right, or wrong. All of art is life, and “philosophizing”, and all thinking humans do it. It is our way of coping, planning, surviving, and enjoying life. Depending on the individual it may take different forms at different times. For some two wheels is an escape from reality, while others it is reality itself. Some hard core bikers ride to escape only to find their demons riding along side. I for one appreciate the philosophical differences found in the art of expression.
Long May You Ride,
Doug Barber AKA Q-Ball