Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 30 Jan 07 - 08:53 AM I have a soldiers plight - Always left, right, left, right... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 01 Feb 07 - 08:30 AM Everything was fine - Apart from weight and line... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Walksaboutverse Date: 01 Feb 07 - 11:11 AM And the fog on the tyne Which I'm claiming as mine.. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 06 Feb 07 - 05:26 AM (That wasn't me! - I haven't played golf since leaving Manchester for Newcastle in 2001.) It took a member's bounce. A rare bird to announce... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: manitas_at_work Date: 06 Feb 07 - 06:25 AM That's strange - it was posted by member Walkaboutsverse! |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Walksaboutverse Date: 06 Feb 07 - 03:26 PM I think my user name says it all. I am the only REAL walksaboutverse. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Sparticus Date: 07 Feb 07 - 01:45 PM I'm Sparti..... Sorry! I'm Walksaboutverse! |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 08 Feb 07 - 09:28 AM (From the gallery: "There's only one walka-bouts-verse; there's only one walka-bouts-verse..") An unlucky horseshoe. Had a look - liked the view... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Small w versus Large W Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:50 PM walkaboutverse "verses" Walkaboutverse I'm confused with handles so diverse Is it one or is it two Whom claim to pen this poo |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Sparticus Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:45 PM Small "verses" Large, Large "verses" small Size is the key but that isn't all. Look for "s", small "w", One alone pens this poo. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,WALKABOUTSVERSE Date: 10 Feb 07 - 05:53 AM (NOT Winnie the...) Poetry in motion. Read with blind devotion... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 13 Feb 07 - 07:55 AM He's just hit a cracker. I'm only a hacker. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 15 Feb 07 - 09:20 AM I wish I'd missed the well. A fried-egg where it fell... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 16 Feb 07 - 05:44 AM A crop of a divot. It was speed that killed it... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 16 Feb 07 - 05:48 AM A crop of a divot. It was speed that killed it... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 17 Feb 07 - 05:44 AM Your wedges land so neat - Butterflies with sore feat... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Amos Date: 17 Feb 07 - 09:12 AM The tone and caliber of all your verse is just pathetic; Catharsis other than through art -- a strong emetic Will serve to cleanse your gut and clear your pores. I also recommend more time outdoors. If you, by this prescription, are unswayed, Then I suggest you go out and get laid. Winston Carbuthunkle Lines to Bad Poets Rankle and Enflammé, Eds. Glasgow, 1937 |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 19 Feb 07 - 08:12 AM (I've been pulished elsewhere, Amos - e.g. The North East Poetry Journal - and have placed in festival-comps.) Like pitchin' in Puddin'. Never up, never in... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:23 AM Drive for show, put for dough. Can't beat bad luck, you know... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Guest Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:47 PM Placing in festival competitions when you are the only entry or one of three hardly counts. Especially when the other competitor gets disqualified for entering the wrong comp, as happened in one case. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Amos Date: 20 Feb 07 - 06:37 PM Oh, hmmmmm? I can only assume you travel in small -- and probably diminishing -- circles. A |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 21 Feb 07 - 04:30 AM (There's usually about 5 to 10 competitors and 20 to 30 watching; and judges don't have to give any awards out - it's like The Chelsea Flower Show in that way. Plus, I can't remember anyone entering the wrong comp., Guest. Finally, you could at least avoid knocking your own culture to get at me!) He's just missed a gimme. That, then, would be dormy... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Guest Date: 21 Feb 07 - 12:10 PM Croxdale 2005 |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:09 AM It went in the side door. A Bradman of a score... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:39 AM (When a golfer's put catches the edge of the hole and drops in, folks tend to say "It went in the side door"; and when someone has not had their best round, folks tend to say "A - Donald - Bradman of a score", i.e. a big number on the score-card.) Just spoiled a good walk. Can't play, but can he talk!... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 22 Feb 07 - 08:33 AM (I swear their was a post between my last two suggesting I go take an online typing course and giving a link to it, hence the explanation..?) 'Twas daylight robbery. Not "how" but "how many"... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 23 Feb 07 - 04:58 AM The nineteenth's not too far - Have a jar at the bar? THE END |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 24 Feb 07 - 06:14 AM Another example from my life's work - another lay/poem-come-folk-song: 162 TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001 Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works in the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements. The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 24 Feb 07 - 12:07 PM Wheat, rape and pillage in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shiny shields; Long sandy beaches with dead whale scenes; Romantic Marmite goes between. Ice-creams in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, gantries or a wharf And crossed by practical delights - I'd reach and type more if I wasn't a dwarf |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,guest Date: 24 Feb 07 - 12:11 PM It really makes me wonder how your brain is wired |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 26 Feb 07 - 04:09 AM (Please note: the above two posts are mis-wired - although one has clearly visited my website; also "Broken-roofed buildings" refers to a native-style of architecture.) This is where we are up to - Broken-roofed buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 27 Feb 07 - 10:38 AM Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Jim Lad Date: 27 Feb 07 - 04:43 PM I'll go wash my hands now. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 01 Mar 07 - 04:52 AM (Or go for a surf, Jim...) Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 02 Mar 07 - 05:54 AM Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 03 Mar 07 - 06:25 AM And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Amos Date: 03 Mar 07 - 10:40 AM His critics think he does this just to spite 'em -- Weak couplets and bad rhymes, ad infinitum. God grant the feller takes a pausium Rather than continue on ad nauseam. A |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST Date: 04 Mar 07 - 08:22 AM Amos, The guy is not a full shilling and by responding it gives hime encouragement to carry on. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 05 Mar 07 - 05:01 AM (Speaking of God, Amos...) Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 06 Mar 07 - 04:03 AM Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 07 Mar 07 - 06:05 AM And, with moulding-works out that way, It's somewhere for a longer stay...? THE END (P.S: sixth year in Newcastle, as I post.) |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,guest Date: 07 Mar 07 - 04:30 PM six years 2 long |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST Date: 07 Mar 07 - 04:33 PM Wow, this is one of my favourites of yours, Walkaboutsverse! So true. I sympathise *completely*. *Completely*, I say: From One Lover to Free Lover to Fee Lover, For children's sakes, let's fashion back to One Lover: In public-life there are - guess what - women and men; Thus, upbringing's best by a woman and a man - Not by one or two men, or one or two women, And not in a tug-of-war of women and men. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 08 Mar 07 - 06:11 AM (Sadly, one in three of our children now grow-up in broken families, Guest) The latter is a poem, of course, and on this forum I'd like to go back to my CHANTS FROM WALKABOUTS: 136 LANCASHIRE SUNG SIMPLY Lancashire: Cut by rivers, met by sea; Patched by farmland, Mills and other industry... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 09 Mar 07 - 04:33 AM Lancashire: With your Pennine boundary... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 10 Mar 07 - 06:48 AM Steeped in history, Through your buildings there to see... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 12 Mar 07 - 05:27 AM Lancashire: Where, through Graces, moorlands be... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: manitas_at_work Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:04 AM Shouldn't that be: Lancashire: Where, through Gracie Fields be... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Amos Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:31 AM And where no-one Has to pee... Where beer and nuts Are given free. Oh, in Lancashire to be! That's the place for bloody me... A |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:38 AM (No - that's just Manitas at work, and Amos with his "vamos" again.) Wooded parklands, Flowered gardens - kept neatly... |
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