BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 03:12 PM

My attempts at Folk With Baroque Recorder?

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Paco O'Barmy
Date: 11 Dec 09 - 03:33 PM

Excellent! Keep it coming Walksabout!

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 05:54 AM

Thanks, Paco.

The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in the NE of England...

Poem 186 of 230: W.W.T. WASHINGTON - AUTUMN 2001

Arriving, took tea
    With beans on dry toast -
Sitting down to see
    What large ponds can host.

From this collection,
    I walked out to the
Wildlife section -
    More the place for me.

There are many hides;
    Plus feed through the cold -
On one of the sides,
    Woodpeckers took hold.

And, as I moved on,
    Beside the Wear,
A calm grey-heron -
    Willing fish near.

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 04:50 AM

In Cornwall, England...

Poem 190 of 230: BIRDWATCHERS' BUDE - WINTER 2001/2

Behind the Tourist Centre,
    Between canal and river,
On the marshy drained floodplain
    (Not now visited by train),
In among willow and reed,
    Eking out some winter feed:
Treecreepers, bobbing robins,
    Chirpy blue-tits, grey-herons,
The screams of water-rail,
    And snipe sharp on their trail.
Plus, out along limestone down,
    Soaring seabirds can be found.

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: GUEST,Ruth sans cookie
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 07:35 AM

It's Christmas

Wavey, have you got a secret child? I see he's even from Neecastle...

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 09:06 AM

No, Ruth - that's not chipped off my block: for starters, the fade-out at the end is far too sophisticated for my tastes!

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Dec 09 - 05:15 PM

Thus tomorrow's daily ditty will have to be Christmas Sung Simply...

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 04:31 AM

Don't do it, WAV - come up with something new instead.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 04:55 AM

I've retired from versification, S., and haven't yet, this season, posted it as a daily ditty...

Poem 230 of 230: AS GOSPELLERS HAVE SAID/CHRISTMAS SUNG SIMPLY

(TUNE:

D A B A G E
E E D G F# G
D A B A G E
D A B A G E
E E D G F# G
D A B A G E
E E D G F# G

D A B A G E
E D G F# G
D A B A G E
E D G F# G)

As gospellers have said,
Beneath signalling skies,
On land dusty to tread,
A trough in a stable
Was the strawy first-bed
Of a divine baby -
The forgiving Godhead.

A season for new hope -
There then, and here now;
The yuletide of goodwill -
There then, and here now.

In respect of this chance,
Beneath bright or dark skies,
Faith's the star that we glance
Attending Christ's churches
And trying to enhance,
With singing and ritual,
Our God-loving stance.

A...

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 04:57 AM

...and, if anyone wishes, you can hear it, with English flute/tenor-recorder intro. and "organ" accompaniment, here .

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: s&r
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 05:04 AM

You can have this one WAV it only takes minutes

Christmas sung simply – a nice enough thought
Let's sing of the things that the wise men have brought
And sing of Rudolf (the shiny red nose)
And sing of the frost on your fingers and toes
Sing of the star in Bethlehem's skies
Sing of plum duff and sing of mince pies
Sing too of Santa and fairies and elves
But sing of the beggars who live by themselves
Sing of the joy that all men should feel
And sing of the boy before whom we should kneel
Sing of the misery sing of the pain
Sing of the sorrows inflicted again
Sing of the evil that many are taught
Christmas sung simply – a nice enough thought


Stu

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 05:22 AM

Lyrics from the glorious video of GottabeAndrew, which I posted earlier singing his shoe-in for Chrimbo Number 1:


It's Christmas


Wake up everyone, It's Christmas!

Christmas is the greatest time of year,
But to enjoy it most we need to get out of bed.

It only comes 'round once a year,
There's snow outside with some reindeer,
Go to the window and then you will see,

Santa's coming down the chimney,
Putting some presents underneath the tree,

And everybody knows,
It's christmas,
It's christmas.

Your advent calendar has a chocolate for you,
Though you might have school or work to travel to,

Talk about it in the present tense,
'Cause soon you will open your presents,
Get out of bed now, it's gonna be a good day,

Santa's coming down your chimney,
Putting some presents underneath the tree,

And everybody knows,
It's christmas,
It's christmas.


If ever Wavey does a volume of guest work, or features videos of guest artists on his Myspace, I think GottabeAndrew would be a worthy contender.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 08:22 AM

I didn't mean a new poem, WAV - just something different by way of the reason; a wee piece of renewal, something fresh, rather than the endless repetitions of the same-old same-old, and getting older all the time, however timeless you feel the message might be...

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 08:59 AM

Lately, I've tried to be more topical, S., but, even so, accept that for the likes of you they are mostly old hat, by now.

For what it's worth, Ruth, Stu's quick effort is more my cup of tea...any more Christmas ditties..?

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 12:23 PM

"If ever Wavey does a volume of guest work, or features videos of guest artists on his Myspace, I think GottabeAndrew would be a worthy contender." (Ruth, almost certainly)...if you make it to the Chillingham Arms singaround at 8.30 PM, this Friday, you may hear my above Christmas ditty live!; and, following that, you may even be able to track down your YouTube pop-friend, elsewhere in Newcastle...?

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Amos
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 12:52 PM

That is truly saccharine, WAVster. Reminds me of polyester leisure suits in pastel hues.


A

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 01:04 PM

You better hurry and book your flight then, Amos - maybe not with BA, though, their cabin crew are about to go on skrike, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 01:33 PM

Are you telling me you don't have any polyester leisure suits in pastel hues, Amos?

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Amos
Date: 14 Dec 09 - 01:44 PM

Not since 1978, LH. I try to keep somewhere in reasonable proximity to the times when I can.


A

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 04:25 AM

My late uncle lived near Bude, Cornwall...

Poem 189 of 230: TO SEE AN UNCLE, AGAIN - WINTER 2001/2

Leaving the broad scenes of England's North East,
    From corner to corner by linked buses,
To the beautiful tight-hedge boundaries,
    And mazy lanes, that herald the South West.

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 08:23 AM

Hey, WAV? Did you watch the BBC drama Small Island? You can catch it on iPlayer. I highly recommend it.

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From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 08:39 AM

Sorry Ruth.....He has no time for that as he's busy choking the net with repetitious piles of absolutes shit. By the way WavyFWBR........You can link buses by coupling their bumpers or chaining them together but it would take a load of buses to stretch across England. If you mean linked bus routes, that's different. Why not say "linked bus routes?" Its not like your crap has rhyme, meter, or any redeeming social value except as an emetic........


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 09:26 AM

I attempted a variety of forms in my 230 poems, and that one, Spaw, was meant to be near-rhyme; however, on the above-linked myspace blog, I've just changed it to "bus journeys," thanks. Now, if I'd thought it was "absolutely ...." (Ps and Qs, again, Spaw), I would not have left it in; but, on the other hand, I wouldn't say it's one of my better pieces.

Ruth - I rarely watch television plays.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 10:09 AM

Linked buses is better, WAV - it fits with the English vernacular and makes perfect sense in the context of the poem; it makes for less fussy poetry too.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Amos
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 10:42 AM

I think he means "connecting buses", but maybe its local vernacular for the same concept. Try inserting the phrase "condoms tied together with square knots" in its place.


A

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 12:08 PM

Pity, WAV - you might have learned something. And it wasn't a play - it was a 2-part drama.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 12:28 PM

Casting my mind back 8 years, it was "linked buses" in that I didn't have to wait too long for the next bus at...Birmingham, Exeter, and one other changeover, I think.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 01:00 PM

Exeter! Had my first visit back in June - now there is a place which is worth hanging around in, the cathedral anyway, where one can see things like THIS at head height. We made it to Bude as well actually, the pasties were pretty amazing; but more amazing was the field recording I made on my Black Sea Fiddle in St. Swithin's at Launcells just up the road - which is currently track three on my Myspace site: http://www.myspace.com/sedayne.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 05:48 AM

Speaking of pasties, I also heard that, traditionally, they would have jam, or some kind of sweet, on one side to complete the meal...

Poem 55 of 230: TIN-MINERS' LUNCH

Visiting relatives in Cornwall,
    I saw the mines that miners mined,
The type of lunch they liked to eat,
    And heard this tale about it all:

The real Cornish pasty's thick crust
    Keeps the cooked food inside it warm,
And, when it is properly done,
    A fall down the mine won't make it bust.

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 06:13 AM

Being a Geordie I was born with a fondness for Gregg's cheese and onion pasties - hot or cold, they are hard to beat. Right now, no doubt, you might buy a festive variant of same...

A George Welsh Joke; best read out loud in a Geordie accent.

Man goes into Gregg's near closing.
'I'm half-starvin heor, pet - whit can I hev?'
'Ye can hev a cheese pastie or a meringue - '
'Nah, yer reet - I'll hev a cheese pastie.'

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 06:23 AM

Did you see the "Worms (Eat Some Worms)" thread, above the line, S. - any Geordie variants on that..?

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 16 Dec 09 - 07:53 AM

One Sunday mornin as aa went a fishin' in the Weor;
Aa cowt a fyish upon me heuk an it tyested awful queeor!
I ran for hyem becoz aa had a bad case of diarrhoea;
An all thet neet wez kept awake with an itchin up me reor!
Wheest lads - had yer gobs - an aal tell yes aal an aaful story
Wheest lads - had yer gobs - an aal yell yer 'boot me WORMS!

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 06:03 AM

In the north of Wales...

Poem 165 of 230: HOLYHEAD AND SURROUNDS - SUMMER 2001

The vivid heaths backed by Snowdon,
    The water-filled "Giant's Divots,"
And the keeps of kept construction.

The fast flows under Menai Bridge,
    The flat farmland of Anglesea,
And then Holyhead's ground-round ridge.

Off the train, all Holyhead's homes -
    Although varied in their structure -
Seemed matched to the ridge in their tones.

After the fortified church-grounds
    (Including Old Harbour vistas),
The museum ended my rounds.

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Dec 09 - 07:51 AM

That was me - on a local-library computer, whilst listening to school kids sing some carols: and very good they were, too.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Dec 09 - 06:01 AM

Poem 65 of 230: NORTH WALES

"Hills meeting sea"
    Proclaims to me
"Good scenery."

And it's views of North Wales,
    Both sides of the train-rails,
Whereupon this thought hails.

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 09 - 05:56 AM

For no-one in particular...

Poem 109 of 230: WE GO TOGETHER

(TUNE:

C E G E C E G E
E G E E E
C E G E C E G E
E G E E E
C E G E C E G E
E G E E E
G A B B A G A G
B A G A G

C A B B C A B B
C A B B C A B B
B A G A G
B B A G A G)

Does a mortar need a pestle?
    A curry a grind?
Does a monsieur need a madame?
    An ooh need two la's?
Does a work-bee need some pollen?
    And flowers a bee?
Yes, Honey, we go together.
We go together...

Like scones and tea just after three,
Or cheese and wine at dinnertime,
We go together.
Yeah, we go together.

Does a mortise need a tenon?
    A cue need a glaze?
Does an hombre need a muher?
    A tango take two?
Does a taproot need some wet earth?
    And flowers a buzz?
Yes, Honey, we go together.
We go together...

Like...

Does a fortune mean a soul-mate?
    And love extreme care?
Does a body need a shelter?
    A finger a ring?
Does a sloth-bear need a hide-out?
    And bees a beehive?
Yes, Honey, we go together.
We go together...

Like...

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 06:12 AM

Poem 154 of 230: GETTING TO KNOW GOD

God lets us go
    Our own way -
Until the Day;
    Now and then, though,
He has a Say
    In His own Way -
Prophets to Sow,
    Deserts to Pay.

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 12:20 PM

Deserts to Pay.

What do you mean by that?

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 03:36 PM

Similar to what's in The Bible, S. - the idea that God may let many things go/leave them to chance, but occasionally intervene.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 20 Dec 09 - 03:48 PM

Do you think he's intervened of late???

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 05:31 AM

God knows, I'm not going there; and when you posted re. your online album, "Jesus At The Zoo", I wasn't going there, either, S.

This and more "cloud poems", from me plus others, may be found on the Cloud Appreciation Society website...

Poem 23 of 230: ABOVE EVEREST

When flying from Nepal to Thailand,
    I was given a "good-side" seat;
And, as I looked out the plane window,
    The view I saw was really neat.

For breaking through a thick sheet of cloud
    Were the high Himalayan peaks;
And, rising the highest of them all,
    Mount Everest - heaven bespeaks!

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: s&r
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 06:24 AM

Bespeaks what? You do know bespeak is transitive?

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 21 Dec 09 - 07:21 AM

and when you posted re. your online album, "Jesus At The Zoo", I wasn't going there, either, S.

From my notes to Jesus at the Zoo:

The images come from the 13th century Ashmole Bestiary, which actually depict God creating the animals, birds & fishes. That God should look so much like Jesus creates certain problems for a Gnostic such as myself, so the images immediately become something else, especially as it looks like God did his creating in a menagerie, which raises all sorts of notions, Theological & otherwise.

Whilst many of the pieces slated for inclusion on JATZ are animal related, the others explore themes of Animal Nature from a Gnostic perspective: Mad Maudlin is the human mind astray in the animal body encompassing the entire cosmos even unto the raiding of Hell; Tempus Est Iocundum is the animal body aroused to the exclusion of the human mind - so very much astray with respect of instinct and / or dysfunction.

Thus do madness & sexuality entwine; feared by the Church, yet celebrated by Shamans, Pagans and Feral types alike! So - good Christians beware, though of course such duality is the essence of the Gnostic Tradition embedded, I feel, in spiritual traditions of the West these past 2,000 years and more*. A while ago Christians were wearing little bracelets with the letters WWJD on them - What Would Jesus Do? - and one answer has to be - He would go to the Zoo. Why? Because Zoos are arks, more pragmatic means of conservation emerging out of our ongoing curiosity for a world now in crisis which we still perceive in symbolic and ideological terms, though not to the extent proscribed by the Bestiaries.

* The Buddha attains enlightenment sitting peaceably beneath a tree; Jesus Christ through the tortured agonies of being nailed to one. This is the very essence of East / West Dichotomy!

I might add that I'm not religious in the slightest, but religion, and the persistence of religion, I find fascinating in terms of its wider folklore.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 05:01 AM

Poem 101 of 230: JUST SUBSIST

(TUNE:

D F# G G A A G G
D A B B A A G G
D B B B A A G G
D A A A B A G G
D A A A B A G G)

At times when I've had time to take,
    I've thought of a plot by a lake:
The plot would be of fertile ground;
    The lake would have some trout around.

The plot's house would be made of brick -
    Well insulated, in good nick.
And, round this abode, there'd be built -
    Solar panels, kept at best tilt.

Inside large coops would run the legs
    Of chooks and quails - for fresh eggs.
A vine for grapes plus summer shade;
    And, in thin beds, vegetables laid.

Up at dawn, to use all sunlight -
    Fish and farm by day, read at night.
A spouse with me I'd not resist -
    In retirement, we'd just subsist.

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 22 Dec 09 - 05:39 AM

Taciturn as ever, WAV? It's Xmas for X's sake! Open up those doors!

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 04:29 AM

By way of contrast with Newcastle, on the east coast of England, now covered in snow: on the east coast of Australia there will be Christmas barbeques at beaches such as...

Poem 8 of 230: CRONULLA

South of Sydney,
    Sand and sea -
That's Cronulla.

Surfies and girls,
    Sunbleached curls -
At Cronulla.

The promenades,
    The lifeguards -
That's Cronulla.

A modern mall,
    Flats stand tall -
At Cronulla.

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Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 10:37 AM

Sounds like paradise, WAV - we hope to be moving out there in the next few years to soak it all in!

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 12:10 PM

It's a good place for us to VISIT, S., and, as well as such above sites, appreciate some Aboriginal culture.

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: s&r
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 04:21 PM

Oh Sean

If you emigrate what a poor swap!

Stu

Subject: RE: BS: WalkaboutsVerse Anew
From: s&r
Date: 23 Dec 09 - 04:22 PM

700?

Stu