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Thread #120107 Message #2780290
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
04-Dec-09 - 04:18 AM
Thread Name: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
(I feel I've answered you, Tim; and, again, Ps and Qs - there may be ladies reading this thread.)
Didsbury is in Manchester - NOT Liverpool, which is usually associated with the River Mersey...
Poem 111 of 230: THE MERSEY AT DIDSBURY - SPRING 2000
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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.
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(C) David Franks 2003