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Thread #89754 Message #2347758
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
23-May-08 - 01:41 PM
Thread Name: Walkaboutsverse
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
THE WEEKLY WALKABOUTS, E.G.
(A tad early this time, as I'm off to the Hexham Gathering tomorrow.)
Poem-come-song 111 of 230: THE MERSEY AT DIDSBURY - SPRING 2000
Took bus one-four-three,
From Piccadilly,
Along Oxford Road;
Passed the old uni's,
Those shops with saris,
And my first abode.
At Didsbury Village,
The Old Parsonage
Looked neat, and gave sound,
As I walked the way,
At about midday,
To a Mersey mound.
From atop this bank,
No longer a blank
Was the strong river,
Nor the wide fairways -
Where I'd filled two days,
Twelve years earlier.
I then headed back,
On Stenner Woods' track
(Hearing more birdsong,
And seeing mossed stumps
Plus well-layered clumps),
To a human throng.
This throng was viewing -
Justly pursuing -
The smart Rock Gardens,
Sloped on Fletcher Moss,
Which I, too, did cross,
Before homeward wends.
From walkaboutsverse.741.com