The Pedalling Postman
The story of my strife.13 total reviews
Comment from Kelley Stead
Love your rhyming and lyrical style. Very easy to read, well written and clever. Such a simple idea, postman being chased by dogs, but very well done.
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2019
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Love your rhyming and lyrical style. Very easy to read, well written and clever. Such a simple idea, postman being chased by dogs, but very well done.
Comment Written 29-Jul-2019
reply by the author on 29-Jul-2019
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Thanks for your terrific review, Kelley!
I'm glad that job was only a brief one. Luckily it didn't put me off dogs forever.
Comment from Liz O'Neill
This is great. I am definitely voting for this one. The description is so vivid that the reader feels as if they are riding with you on the back of the bicycle. This puts the reader at a great disadvantage too. The slower dogs can nip at our butts. You have come up with the best solution. Your image is so clear and colorful this could be made into a cartoon. Well described.
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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This is great. I am definitely voting for this one. The description is so vivid that the reader feels as if they are riding with you on the back of the bicycle. This puts the reader at a great disadvantage too. The slower dogs can nip at our butts. You have come up with the best solution. Your image is so clear and colorful this could be made into a cartoon. Well described.
Comment Written 20-Jul-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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Thanks for your enthusiastic review, Liz. Clench those butt cheeks!!
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lol
Comment from john mallahan
When ya think of all the folks of old, that persisted, through the thick & thin! This guy might not have wanted to live in Washington St. though. Summers might be good, but a lot a the rest of the time could be mired in the mud!
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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When ya think of all the folks of old, that persisted, through the thick & thin! This guy might not have wanted to live in Washington St. though. Summers might be good, but a lot a the rest of the time could be mired in the mud!
Comment Written 20-Jul-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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Thanks for the reminder that things can always go from bad to worse!
Comment from CrystieCookie999
It looks as if there was a lot of thoughtful work put into listing drawback to this postman profession: cursed curs and horrible Holly hedges to name two. I love your last three humorous lines: The mail was all soggy; chewed up by the doggy, so I crawled away home to hide. I am trying to remember the last time I saw a postman on a bicycle and couldn't. Was this before the 1970s? The illustration suggests more like the turn of the century. Some great internal rhymes.
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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It looks as if there was a lot of thoughtful work put into listing drawback to this postman profession: cursed curs and horrible Holly hedges to name two. I love your last three humorous lines: The mail was all soggy; chewed up by the doggy, so I crawled away home to hide. I am trying to remember the last time I saw a postman on a bicycle and couldn't. Was this before the 1970s? The illustration suggests more like the turn of the century. Some great internal rhymes.
Comment Written 20-Jul-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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Thanks for your review. I used that illustration to emphasise the fact that postal delivery by bicycle is a thing of the past. My poem is based on my experiences in the early 70s when I had finished high school and was a postie for a while until I was traumatised by dogs chasing me... it did turn me into a very quick cyclist though!
Comment from Laine Carson
Your poem painted a dark picture of the sad life of our postmen. I did laugh though at the image of the poor soul sitting drenched and in danger of being eaten.
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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Your poem painted a dark picture of the sad life of our postmen. I did laugh though at the image of the poor soul sitting drenched and in danger of being eaten.
Comment Written 20-Jul-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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Thanks for your review. Humour is often to be found at other people's expense. We do love laughing at another's problems... until it happens to us!
Comment from Gail Denham
Oh that's a sad sad tale. What about the poor postmen who walk their beat - how they must hate those dogs. A nephew/law retired from a walking route - he misses the people he met.
Good poem.
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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Oh that's a sad sad tale. What about the poor postmen who walk their beat - how they must hate those dogs. A nephew/law retired from a walking route - he misses the people he met.
Good poem.
Comment Written 19-Jul-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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I'd hate to be a walking postie. Being on a bike was bad enough.
Thanks for your review.
Comment from royowen
I think you've done a marvellous job with this share a story in a poem about your job, and you have. I think you've highlighted all that hazards and pitfalls of your job, hilariously well, and great rhyming gives that classical poetic sound one needs to do well. Well done, good luck, blessings, Roy
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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I think you've done a marvellous job with this share a story in a poem about your job, and you have. I think you've highlighted all that hazards and pitfalls of your job, hilariously well, and great rhyming gives that classical poetic sound one needs to do well. Well done, good luck, blessings, Roy
Comment Written 19-Jul-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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I'm pleased you like my humour. I usually write free verse, but I am trying to get better at rhyming poems. I felt it suited this subject.
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Well done
Comment from Robert Zimmerman
Hello mystery writer. The postman being chased by dogs appears to be a universal problem. At one time I remember seeing a walking postman carrying dog repellent spray attached to his belt. I like the last stanza very much as it summarize the day of delivering the mail . Robert
reply by the author on 19-Jul-2019
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Hello mystery writer. The postman being chased by dogs appears to be a universal problem. At one time I remember seeing a walking postman carrying dog repellent spray attached to his belt. I like the last stanza very much as it summarize the day of delivering the mail . Robert
Comment Written 19-Jul-2019
reply by the author on 19-Jul-2019
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...big ones, little ones, young ones, old ones, black ones, white ones... the dogs all seem bent on causing problems for the postie!
Thanks for your review.
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You're welcome!
Comment from Y. M. Roger
Okay, you've outdone yourself on this one! :) You had me grinning all the way through and what a great format you've used...even keeps the reader engaged and feeling as though they are bumping right along with the poor fellow!! ;) ;) Great job and thanx for sharing! ;) Best of luck at the polls! ;)
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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Okay, you've outdone yourself on this one! :) You had me grinning all the way through and what a great format you've used...even keeps the reader engaged and feeling as though they are bumping right along with the poor fellow!! ;) ;) Great job and thanx for sharing! ;) Best of luck at the polls! ;)
Comment Written 19-Jul-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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Another lovely review, thanks!
Comment from Lobber
Hello,
I spent one summer as part-time relief postman. I had routes to walk, no bike and dogs were my Bain. One leaped though a closed screen door and tore my pants to shreds ...funny..no blood or even cuts! - Lobber
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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Hello,
I spent one summer as part-time relief postman. I had routes to walk, no bike and dogs were my Bain. One leaped though a closed screen door and tore my pants to shreds ...funny..no blood or even cuts! - Lobber
Comment Written 19-Jul-2019
reply by the author on 20-Jul-2019
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Damn dogs and posties seem destined to have dramatic encounters. That would be scary to have a dog shred your clothes.
