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Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
15-Jan-10 - 10:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Fish & Chips - 150 years old today
Subject: RE: BS: Fish & Chips - 150 years old today
Enjoyed these chips...
Poem 187 of 230, A SOUTH SHIELDS WALKABOUT - AUTUMN 2001
Out of the museum-and-gallery
(Wiser on Cookson and the local way),
Down Ocean Road with, to the right of me,
Its eateries and, left, neat places to stay;
Before, on either side, Marine Parks -
The southern-one a most beautiful place,
Teeming with moorhens, swans, grebes and mallards
In a small lake at a scenic-hill's base.
Then (holding chips from the parade's cafe
And, thus, a flock of gulls squawking above)
Onto the South Pier I made my way:
Seeing seaweed over rocks - like a glove -
And high-and-dry sands held from transgression
By growth of grass and the weaving of wood,
Plus, in the dim light of a sleepy sun,
Fishing boats returning to Tynemouth's hood.
From http://blogs.myspace.com/walkaboutsverse(e-book)
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(C) David Franks 2003