BS: WAV with Pics

Subject: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 May 19 - 04:43 PM

Hi all:

In my free time the last few years, my hobby has been going back to places I visited in Walkabouts: Travels and Conclusions in Verse/WalkaboutsVerse/WAV with a bridge camera.

Here is one example from a recent visit to Rome - quite timely as the Giro cycling and the Italian Open Tennis are currently on:

"A Beautiful Stage"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 May 19 - 11:33 PM

...stayed in Ostia and had about one day on the coast, one day walking about the city, and one day watching tennis at the wonderful Foro Italico.

There are so many beautiful sites in Rome but, of course, people know it and there are big crowds and queues at most of them.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 14 May 19 - 07:08 PM

Even if no one else is able to say it, Well Done.
Was it easy?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 May 19 - 02:48 PM

Thanks, Donuel:

It was easier last time in 1988, in my early 20s!

But I remembered that - unlike spacious Paris where the good underground is really needed - Rome is a walkabout city and this visit confirmed that.

I took the metro to the Vatican then walked a scenic route - in the order of the photos - to the Colosseum, buying an umbrella and wiping my camera lens a lot in the changeable weather that day.

The other 2 days, I took it easier - on the coast and at the tennis.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 May 19 - 03:30 PM

Excellent selection, WAV. Reminds me of a wonderful week my late wife and I spent in Italy. Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 May 19 - 03:38 PM

Where did you visit, FB?

So many beautiful places in Italy, of course - and I'm being reminded of this now by the helicopter cameras covering the Giro cycling.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: fat B****rd
Date: 15 May 19 - 06:22 PM

Rome, Florence, Assisi and Perugia.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 May 19 - 06:32 PM

Only been to the first 2, and know the other 2 from TV and Saint Francis, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 May 19 - 02:32 PM

A local one this time on a revisit, 19 years on, with camera, to Blackpool and Fleetwood - "A Good Seaside Day" .

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 May 19 - 03:50 PM

Recently on our local NW England news, Blackpool Tower is now 125 years old.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 May 19 - 05:58 PM

"Liverpool"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 May 19 - 02:54 PM

A surfie poem with pics on, in Sydney, "Cronulla"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 24 May 19 - 02:56 PM

Here we go again, WankaboutsVerse binge posting.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 24 May 19 - 05:06 PM

?

Over here we pay people to go over and photo the UK

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 May 19 - 03:45 AM

I think you hit the wrong button, Dave, but keeping calm and carrying on with upper lip stiff...

Not to compare myself in any other way, Gandhi and Mandela probably disliked their status quo at least as much as I do - one fought with non-violent non-cooperation, the latter resorted to terrorism.

Having been born in Saint Mary's Hospital, Manchester, the day Alf Ramsey's English team won the FIFA World Cup, and been highly trained in Australia and (too a lesser extent) England, I keep promoting WalkaboutsVerse

(The lazy answer would have been - if you don't like it, go to hell.)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 May 19 - 09:20 PM

thanks for the pics, the other beaches are a tad different to Australia's beaches!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 May 19 - 04:32 AM

Agreed, Sandra - although not a surfie, I have bumped into a few of our world's most famous beaches and those around Sydney are hard to beat.

And, when I visit my elderly parents there every year, what I appreciate most is the beautiful rock pools (as in the above Cronulla poem), where I can enjoy the fresh sea water, without too much swell, such that I can keep my glasses on.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 May 19 - 09:31 AM

"My Diet"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 May 19 - 03:39 AM

A bit like this thread, for the most part! "One-Pot Cooking"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 May 19 - 05:03 PM

For anyone who would like a look at some of the English artists at London’s National Gallery, my intro poem to WalkaboutsVerse, "Pictures"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 May 19 - 04:37 PM

My hometown poem "Manchester - A Gist"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: The Sandman
Date: 29 May 19 - 05:28 PM

wav are you familiar with the poetry of Ian Bailey, he is a neghbour of mine and is also from manchester

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 May 19 - 06:16 PM

No - I had to do a web-search, Sandman; is it the chap in the news on trial at the moment?

Either way, I hope to get back into both the folk and poetry club and festival scenes again but, as I say, I've been spending a fair bit of my spare time lately revisiting places with my camera.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: The Sandman
Date: 30 May 19 - 12:55 PM

The Irish dpp said there was insufficent evidence to prosecute, in france you are guilty until you can prove your innocence, he is being tried in his absence in france, it is [as i understand] a civil case which requires less evidence.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 May 19 - 01:51 PM

He lives in Manchester now, Sandman? May have been on the local news which I have missed lately due to watching Roland Garros and the Giro, after work.

Heading south, my "Impressions of London in 1997" (with photos taken 3 or 4 years ago)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 May 19 - 06:17 PM

no he lives near schull county cork ireland, but frommanchester originally

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Jun 19 - 05:31 PM

"Picturing Sydney"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Jun 19 - 04:30 PM

An Australian PM has (& I have) but still no UK leader has apologised for abusing Aboriginal "Land Rights"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 07 Jun 19 - 02:30 PM

Re Brexit and #DDay75, "Remember Them?"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Jun 19 - 01:59 PM

Including a pic of Eric, "From Morecambe"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 03:30 PM

With an address, of sorts, not to a haggis but the coconut, my poem Through South-East Asia" .

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Jun 19 - 07:43 AM

In 1988, I hitch-hiked from "Land's End to John O' Groats"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jun 19 - 05:26 PM

With photos of Barcelona (including one of the bullring that was) taken during a long-weekend visit last year, my poem on "Toreo".

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Jun 19 - 02:47 PM

The introductory poem to the Walkabout Lancashire section of my collection, "More Pictures" - with photos taken in 2017 of Manchester Art Gallery.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Jun 19 - 01:03 PM

My song, in C Major, "We Go Together" with pics of pigeons and "bees".

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Jun 19 - 02:51 PM

With the qualifying on this week, there is not long to go now, so my poem, with lots of pics from a 2014 visit, "Musing on Wimbledon"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jun 19 - 02:10 PM

...now that "Eastbourne" is over for another year.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 04:57 PM

"Proud Preston"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Jul 19 - 06:28 PM

On the coast, near Newcastle Upon Tyne, "Cullercoats"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 10 Jul 19 - 04:56 PM

Just got home from a visit by train to Buxton, Derbyshire, straight from work, and added a well-dressing photo to my poem on "The Many Elements of Buxton"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Jul 19 - 05:12 PM

"A Fern In Full Flight"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Aug 19 - 05:56 PM

"Joys of Life"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Aug 19 - 04:30 PM

In North East England, with Roman ruins, Wallsend

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Aug 19 - 04:24 PM

Nice day here in England yesterday, and, with my camera, I made a day-trip into Lancashire to 3 places I had previously visited (about 20 years ago) with my pen; and I've just finished adding pics to my poem on "Clitheroe Castle's Views"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Aug 19 - 01:55 PM

From the same above day-trip, just finished editing and adding photos to my poem on "Blackburn Cathedral"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Aug 19 - 05:41 PM

My poem, with photos of her memorial in Hyde Park, on the death of Diana in 1997 - "A Loss For Humanity"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Aug 19 - 12:32 PM

"Whalley Abbey...What Tales?"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Sep 19 - 05:27 PM

Most of my poems are in trad English forms, but I did try an Italian sonnet and a few Haikus, including this one on "Rivington", Lancashire - now with pics attached, after a recent revisit.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Oct 19 - 04:07 AM

"One Rugby?"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Dec 19 - 08:08 AM

I just made a visit "To Scotland, Again" - this time with my camera (rather than my pen), and by train rather than the coach journey of the poem.

You can also see in the pics evidence of how much rain there has been in these parts the last few weeks.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Dec 19 - 07:09 PM

Excellent tour of Rivington among others

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Dec 19 - 03:03 PM

Thanks Donuel, and have a happy Christmas..."The Nativity"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Dec 19 - 11:00 AM

"Monaco and its Railway Loo"...according to Google Blogger stats, the 2nd most read poem in all of WalkaboutsVerse!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 19 - 05:59 PM

And, according to Google Blogger stats, the most read poem in all of WalkaboutsVerse, with just 1 pic, "Congestion"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Dec 19 - 11:18 AM

Yet to get back to India with my camera but, via a stopover heading back from my visit to family in Sydney this year, I have been back to Hong Kong and took the photos attached to this poem - "China and India in 1988"

And a happy new year all.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Jan 20 - 02:03 PM

From my time in London in the late 90s, my poem, now with pics, on an interesting street market - "Portobello Road"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Feb 20 - 09:53 AM

"At A Pond"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Feb 20 - 01:17 PM

"A Second Ballet"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 06 Mar 20 - 04:25 PM

With pics of the M.C.G., Lords, etc., my poem on cricket "Dot-Ball"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 06:07 AM

With pics of the Colosseum, the Burj Khalifa, and Buckingham Public Hospital, my poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, "Along with the Ingenuity"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Mar 20 - 10:41 AM

With pics from the Olympic Parks in Sydney and London, my poem "Olympics or Globalisation?"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: gillymor
Date: 14 Mar 20 - 10:51 AM

Yet another finely wrought argument for racism and xenophobia. Bravo!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 07:48 PM

No Gillymor - Yet another finely wrought argument for keeping our world multicultural.

And, from just above that, I saw on the news today Elizabeth Windsor, plus Corgi, making way for our new Buckingham Public Hospital.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: gillymor
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 08:30 PM

The Dixiecrats could have used more of your ilk back in '48 when they were trying to beat back integration.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 01:26 PM

The USA, Gillymor, should be run by a council of Native Americans/Amerindians/First Nations and those who don't like the idea of that may do what I've done and repatriate to where they belong - the Trumps, e.g., may choose either Scotland or Slovenia; my poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, "Repatriating - Australia to England"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 03:52 PM

Just finished, again, going through, and adding pics to, my intro blank-verse poem 0 - 19: HELPED BY “THE OLDS”; SCRIBED 2000 A.D.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 06:05 PM

Just done some more work on the captions of this WalkaboutsVerse song - "Impressions of London in 1997"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 09:50 PM

One should not dismiss the great great grand cousin of Proust,

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 09 Dec 20 - 02:44 PM

...In "Remembrance of Things Past" (Proust), a "A Bayswater Bedsit" - my first home in London upon repatriation from Australia in 1997; and photographed on a return visit in 2014, with captions added a couple of minutes ago.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 01:38 PM

With captions just added, my poem on "Portobello Road" - not far from the abovementioned bedsit, in London.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 01:41 PM

Pre Pandemic retrospectives are all the rage.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Dec 20 - 12:44 PM

With a photo of a local mural, my poem on "The Notting Hill Carnival"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Dec 20 - 02:42 PM

With photos of the Diana Memorial in Hyde Park, my poem "A Loss For Humanity"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 03:33 PM

"The Proms" - with a photo of Albert Hall shot from Kensington Gardens.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 06:08 PM

"Oxford" - including photos of The Bridge of Sighs, Radcliffe Camera, and one of Matthew Arnold's "dreaming spires".

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 20 - 05:12 PM

At churchyards, "Why the Yew?" with a couple of pics.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 Dec 20 - 02:45 PM

"Hobson's Choice" with photos of Cambridge, including King's College - from the front and from The Backs; thankfully, the carol service is still going ahead on Christmas Eve...forgive me but I guess they had...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Dec 20 - 06:04 PM

...some further forgiveness required as this poem is about Cornish Pasties but the two photos from Devon's Exeter Cathedral, "Tin-Miners' Lunch"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Dec 20 - 11:35 AM

Don't you have anyplace else you can conduct this self-promotion of bad poetry? Are we your only victims?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Dec 20 - 11:31 AM

Not exactly sure on "victims" SRS but, according to Google's stats, a few hundred thousand have had a look at my verses, and I used to get considerably more visits when my collection was on MySpace's blog spot.

Either way, happy Christmas, all; and, with a pic (again according to Google stats, a few million have looked at my contributions to Google Maps) from Rome and one from home, my carol "Christmas Sung Simply"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 05:08 PM

With photos of pedestrian crossings in London and Chiang Mai, my poem on their timing - "Green Light"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 05:39 PM

Guide books and traveloges have a rich and varied history.
You don't have to even have to call it poetry.

Hey look I wrote a poem!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 05:40 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_book

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 05:48 PM

So Donuel,
We now can tell,
Is a poet
Who does know it.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 08:39 PM

I just read it and it has an extra 'have to'.
I have an aphasic stutter in spoken words too.

Oops I did it again...poem

egads and just there too
Rhymes seem to stick to me like glue
Is there anything I can do

Ahh I can read WAV with video and sound.
See... I'm cured.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Dec 20 - 05:36 AM

...no longer feeling blue.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 03:53 PM

With newly captioned pics, my poem about The Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses - "Bit of Each"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Dec 20 - 05:27 PM

With newly captioned photos (whilst, again, watching "The Sound of Music" on he Beeb), my poem on "Liverpool"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jan 21 - 04:20 PM

A poem and photos about the nice rail-side scenery where hills meet the sea in "North Wales"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Jan 21 - 05:18 PM

"To Scotland, Again"
- with newly captioned pics from a train journey to Glasgow from Manchester, plus some of Glasgow's fine architecture and 2019 Christmas decorations.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Jan 21 - 12:23 PM

"Millennium Dreams"
with photos from England and Australia.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Jan 21 - 06:53 PM

With photos of the Burj Khalifa & a trad wind-tower dwelling in Dubai, my poem "Overcome"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 21 - 07:31 PM

Have you gone commercial in any way yet?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 12:02 PM

No Donuel: as an amateur, I've turned up at poetry and folk clubs and festivals (including a few competitions), and done some mini-gigs; on a lighter note, at Newcastle's Green Festival (quite a big one) it's free entry and unpaid performance, but we were given a ticket for a vegetarian meal so, that day, I literally sang for my supper!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 03:10 PM

With aerial photos of German farming (taken to and fro a visit to Rome in 2019), my poem on, when it comes to meeting global food needs, "Progress"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Jan 21 - 01:55 PM

With some photos from the observatory in Greenwich, London, my poem on Mars, "Pie in the Sky"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 07:41 AM

PIC OF ORION NEBULA i CALL MT OLYMPUS
I prefer the spectacular

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 04:59 PM

...I have never had a decent telescope but do have quite a good south facing view from my studio flat; and, just lately, I have been looking at Argos's options; I have 40 X zoom with my late grandad's binoculars but it would be nice to have over a 100...

I tried mostly trad English poetic forms in my collection, but also made up a couple of my own and had a go at an Italian sonnet, plus a few haikus - including this one with a few photos attached of airliners and contrails: "Humanity"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 05:43 PM

Unless you want to spend an arm and a leg in order to get fuzzy views of the Great Red Spot or Saturn's rings, the best astronomy tools for the amateur astronomer are your eyes. A decent pair of 8x30 binoculars are useful at times too. Most zoom binoculars are of inferior optical quality, so don't bother. For meteor showers, magnifying tools are your worst enemy as they cut down drastically the amount of sky you can see. The bins will get you seeing some nice double stars, such as the one in the middle of the Plough handle (a triple, actually, which binocs will reveal), and you can see the four big moons of Jupiter (there's a brilliant app for them). Decent kit for viewing things close up in anything like decent definition will cost you big mazumas.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 05:51 PM

Thanks Steve.

This is one telescope I was tempted by Celestron PS70/700 Refractor Telescope

And this is a good site I found recently for seeing what is out there each night https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/

(100)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 06:11 PM

I strongly recommend the Star Walk app. It might cost you a couple of quid, a one-off, but it's incredibly beautiful. Point your phone or iPad at the sky and it tells you exactly what you're looking at in glorious view. Move your device around and you can follow the sky around, even below the horizon, and there are lots more facets to the app. I wouldn't be without it. Apart from Daily Art, it's my very favourite app.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 06:18 PM

I'm absolutely no expert on telescopes, but I would just say that, in order to save both disappointment and your hard-earned dough, you should do mucho homework before you buy, preferably on astronomy-type websites. It's something of a minefield, and I have a feeling that you definitely get what you pay for.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 06:21 PM

Thanks again Steve and I shall keep it in mind but, whilst I am up-to-date with my laptop and Windows 10, I don't have a smart phone as my 2002 model Nokia still works! (It's in my bag in case I have to make an emergency call and for the occasional message, and sometimes used as an alarm.)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 02:40 PM

My poem "For the Poor" - shaped into a pyramid and with a photo of the Pyramid in Cestius, taken through a bus window in Rome, during my visit in May 2019.

Subject: RE: Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 04:22 PM

Bagle

Subject: RE: Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 05:07 PM

My poem sailing was shaped like a sailboat.

In photoshop finalize the text and draw new words in a different colour or colorize the finalized text witf a word or symbol
unused engagement ring

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 06:29 PM

Believe me, you have never written an actual poem.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Jan 21 - 05:32 AM

Either way, thanks for the Nasa pics, D. (I quite like the way they peel open); and an apology for the typo just above - it's the Pyramid OF Cestius, in Rome, sorry.

Subject: RE:Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 11:00 AM

Familiar stars in OZ https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2101/SouthernCross_Slovinsky_3000.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 02:09 PM

Thanks, again, D. ... not sure what mountain that is?

My WalkaboutsVerse poem questioning "People or Money?" with a photo of zhezhi - the Chinese predecessor of Japanese origami - from a Hong Kong money-changer.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 04:04 PM

That is a mountain in Peru thats also beneath the horizon of the equator.

“The ultimate horizon”

Please, remember me
Happily
By the passion flower vine laughing
With bruises on my chin
The time when
We counted every black car passing
By my house beneath the hill
And up until
Someone caught cold that wasn't a cold
With a cough, and fever,
A hospital
A vision too removed to mention
But


Please, remember me
Fondly
I heard from someone you’re still living
And then
They went on to say
That the pearly gates
Had some eloquent graffiti
Like ‘We’ll meet again’
And ‘Fuck the Trump’
And ‘Tell my mother not to worry’
And angels with their grey
Handshakes
Were always done with such abandon
And

Please, remember me
At Halloween
Making fools of all the neighbors
Our faces painted white
By midnight
We’d forgotten one another
And when the morning came
I was ashamed
Only now it seems so silly
That season left the world
And then returned
And now we’re fed up by the city
So

Please, remember me
Mistakenly
In the window of the internet and kitchen
Then pass us by
But much too high
To see the empty roads at early hours
Leave notes of wisdom not read
Just like the gates
Around holy places
With words like ‘Beats underground’ and ‘Don’t Look Down’
And ‘Someone Save Temptation’
And

Please, remember me
As in a dream
We were raised like forest babies
Among the fallen trees
And fast asleep
Aside the weeds now taller than trees
That fell silently
Losing all their height
Gave a gift for tommorrow
In an empty canopy so new life cries
A new idea
That swings as high as any savior
But

Please, remember me
My misery
And how it cost me all my wonder
Those friends that love the rain
And chasing trains
The colored birds above there running
In circles round the well
And where it spells
On the wall behind St. Peter’s
So bright with cinder gray
in spray paint
‘Who the hell can see forever?’
And

Please, remember me
Frequently
In the car waiting for others to finish
My hand between my knees
I was only free to dream
And said I am the unknown poet
But never meant to last’
The clowns that passed
Made me come up with anger
DC was filled with circus dogs
Filling parking lots
It had an element of danger
So

Please, remember me
Finally
And all my uphilling musing
now sleds down the hill
But if I make
The pearly gates
I did my best to make a drawing
Of evil and good
A boy and girl
An angel kissing a devil
A monkey and a man
An orchestra and choir
Filling all of Earth
an auditorium
with old familiar songs.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 26 Jan 21 - 02:58 PM

With reference to Henry Lawson's poem "Faces in the Street" and a photo of the monument to him in Sydney's Domain, my poem "The Order of the Day"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 21 - 08:13 PM

Old Hippie

Americans are most all immigrants.

HOW FAR WE HAVE COME

When our fathers came to this golden land
There was nothing but forests and rivers and sand
And a few million Indians running around
Now look what we’ve made of the little they found

There’s cities of silver that shine in the night
Churches of splendor and halls of delight
And only an echo of Indian drums
Who can deny how far we have come

The slave ships they came with the whip and the rack
And a million black people with scars on their back
Picked cotton, drew water, and slept in the cold
With a bible for comfort they were happy and cold

The laws they were passed, slavery went
Our lives integrated at least six percent
In the sharecroppers shack and the big city slum
Who can deny how far we have come

The immigrants came from the green Irish shore
From Poland and Russia, ten million and more
Germany, Italy, all the world round
To settle our ghettos and immigrant towns

Their brains and their bodies they put to the wheel
To build our great factories and towers of steel
To march to our battles and carry our guns
Who can deny how far we have come

Now all through the Andes, they’ve heard of our name
On the factory wall, in the palace of shame
They drink Coca Cola and the times that they spend
Goes straight to the pockets of our businessmen

To pay for our Fords, and our split level homes
Our Hi-Fis and records and six percent loans
Our profits protected with dictators guns
Who can deny how far we have come


In Asia and Africa, they’re learning too
How free enterprise can do wonders for you
South Africas prisons are bursting with men
Barbed wire keeps the Vietnamese in

Where elections are daydreams that never get far
American weapons are there standing guard
We’re ready to fight for the lands that we run
Who can deny how far we have come

Our fears they are many though they’re seldom saved
They’re black and they’re yellow and they’re brown and they’re red
They see through the legend, they smell the decay
They’re learning to fight the American way

And we in our armchairs are quick to condemn
Our bankbooks are falling, our profits might end
The breaking of change is our funeral hum
Who can deny how far we have come

When our fathers came to this golden land
There was nothing but forests and rivers and sand
And a few million Indians running around
Now look what we’ve made of the little they found

There’s cities of silver that shine in the night
Churches of splendor and halls of delight
And only an echo of Indian drums
Who can deny how far we have come

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Jan 21 - 12:02 PM

"Repatriating - Australia to England" - with a photo of an almost full-English fry-up.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 05:22 AM

Not sure if the attached pics of pollution are your thing (there is also one of a white rhino from a Nairobi Safari Walk), but here is my poem on the pros and cons of "Plastics"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Jan 21 - 12:58 PM

"Moroccan Tea" and, if I do say so myself, the attached photos are mint!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Jan 21 - 03:04 PM

With 3 syllables per line of verse, & plenty of flora & fauna pics, my poem "A Good Life"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Feb 21 - 02:18 PM

With photos of Owen, Darwin, etc., my WalkaboutsVerse poem on "Paradigms"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Feb 21 - 04:55 PM

"If we humans evolved from apes,
Why on earth are there living apes?"

Maybe you don't accept the theory of evolution, or maybe you've just kept yourself ignorant of its detailed proposals. In any event, these two lines are a travesty.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 04:32 PM

Not to compare myself in any other way, Steve, David Attenborough majored in zoology and has a strong interest in anthropology (I think his son still lectures on anthropology in Australia); and I majored in anthropology and have a strong interest in zoology.

Thus, I've watched and read a lot of his work, plus others such as on the Sky Nature channel, and agree with most evolutionary theory - but, to my mind, it does not explain everything/there are holes.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 04:54 PM

Of course. But do try to think of a branched tree, not a straight line.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 05:23 PM

...but Homo sapiens lived in the same locations/environments as other apes..?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 05:41 PM

We still do.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 05:45 PM

...so they should be "we"!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 07:41 PM

At this point I'm terminating this particular line of enquiry. When one realises that one can't get through, yet persists in trying, one dices with the onset of insanity...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Feb 21 - 09:17 PM

Meteors are colorful While the human or ape eye usually cannot discern many colors, cameras often can. Pictured is a Quadrantids meteor captured by camera over Missouri, USA, early this month that was not only impressively bright, but colorful. The radiant grit, likely cast off by asteroid 2003 EH1, blazed a path across Earth's atmosphere. Colors in meteors usually originate from ionized elements released as the meteor disintegrates, with blue-green typically originating from magnesium, calcium radiating violet, and nickel glowing green. Red, however, typically originates from energized nitrogen and oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. This bright meteoric fireball was gone in a flash -- less than a second -- but it left a wind-blown ionization trail that remained visible for several minutes.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 04:56 AM

You will see plenty of colours in a meteor shower with the unaided eye if you set yourself up to observe as ideally as possible. A few years ago we were in Andalucía in an extremely remote location with a perfectly dark sky (1). There was no moon (2). The sky was cloudless and free of haze (3). My sister and I set ourselves up with two reclining deckchairs and aimed our gaze at the radiant of the Perseid meteor shower (4). I made sure that my distance specs were clean (5). We were lucky in that the temperature remained above 25C all night but we did douse ourselves in 50% deet. We saw many shooting stars, most of which were coloured other than "white." In less than ideal conditions, or if you just catch an accidental glimpse of a passing shooting star out of the corner of your eye, you may miss any colour. Of course, the colour-detecting cones in your retina are best in bright light...

And this has got what to do with poetry? Well, you never know...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 12:02 PM

...never been but have heard Andalusia has the only desert in mainland Europe.

Without recalling any given location, I do remember looking up at many stars from outback Australia. (I'm still looking into a telescope, by the way, but figure I'll wait for warmer weather in Manchester to open the door to my juliet balcony, so am not in such a hurry.)

Following on from debate over evolution, not sure if anyone is up for an animal, mineral, vegetable game! but here is my poem on "Collecting the (golf) Cards" - with an extra photo of my minimal mineral collection, just under the tele.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 12:19 PM

What does WAV have to do with poetry? I dunno
Waves on the other hand have everything to do with everything.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 01:46 PM

We've travelled quite a bit around Andalucía, but as it happens the desert at Tabernas is very close to where we mostly stay. The film set used for several spaghetti westerns is still there and is a tourist attraction. We stood in the desert but viewed the Wild West from afar only. We could only ever go in the height of summer and the temperature was routinely around 37-40C most days, except in the Sierra Nevada mountains and the somewhat lower-altitude sierras to the east. On one memorable day we tried to sit on a beach at Cabo de Gata in a gale-force wind and 40-degree heat, which wasn't quite like Bude in February. The humidity was so low that it was comfortable in the shade even on the hottest days. In a few minutes we'll be having our usual Wednesday cheesy night in, no cookery required, eaten off the lovely fishy-pattern pottery from the village of Alhabia in Almería province. The pottery may be Spanish but the cheeses will be English, French and German, the olives from Sicily, the cherry tomatoes from the Netherlands and the red and white wines from Puglia and Sicily. Oh, and Bath Olivers... I still proudly sport my EU badge when I'm out and about.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 01:51 PM

I enjoyed that.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 04:09 PM

I forgot to mention the chorizo, Spanish of course, which I sliced as thinly as I could. I chose a dolce version so as not to overwhelm tbe cheeses...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 04:12 PM

"...the somewhat lower-altitude sierras to the east..."

For any geography buffs checking up, I meant the sierras to the east of the Sierra Nevada.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 04:12 PM

I don't recall it from when I twice visited my late uncle and auntie (who had moved down from Manchester to a bungalow in Kilkhampton) but the Bude Sea Pool looks very inviting - when the climate warms-up and covid cools down, of course.

(Sydney is famous for what they call rock pools but from Google Maps and pics it seems at least as good.)

Hope to make a third visit one day...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 05:36 PM

I'm a member of Friends of Bude Sea Pool. It's been cleaned out, renovated and been given upgraded yet very tasteful facilities. It's a grand local asset these days. We had an old aunt of Mrs Steve and the aunt's daughter living in Kilk until about 20 years ago so we know it well. It's a few hundred feet above sea level and we joke about its chilly climate as compared with Bude. The sea pool is a great place to get sunset views over Summerleaze Beach to the Downs beyond. I have many such photos! Our favourite lockdown exercise is a quick stomp round the Downs, from Crooklets beach to Summerleaze, past the sea pool. It's been bracing recently!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 05:49 PM

Thanks for the local knowledge Steve - sounds good.

Haven't got a pic of it (as I say, I'd like to make another visit - with bridge camera) and I think I've posted it before when you have mentioned Bude, but after enjoying a walkabout I decided to call it "Birdwatchers' Bude" as, both along the coast and inland, I saw a lot that day.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 06:22 PM

Just behind the tourist centre we have a very unlikely colony of bee orchids. I'll have to take your word for it on tree creepers, but we have of plenty reed warblers (a bird with a sore throat) sand martins, chiffchaffs that now overwinter, a few kingfishers and otters in both the canal and river. I'm told that Ratty lives near Rodd's Bridge, but I fear he hasn't much chance while there are escaped mink about. The unintended adverse consequences of animal rights liberators.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 12:10 PM

I wrote that 20 years ago but imagine I would have checked if it was a "Treecreeper" I saw rather than, with a similar habit, a Nuthatch.

Also, I have since checked on the internet and am quite sure that the cliffs are indeed "sandstone" there in your nice part of the world - but, as you probably know, it varies throughout Cornwall.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 01:34 PM

I notice, mainly due to Covid I think, rugby league has moved closer to the suggestions I made in this poem many years ago - "One Rugby?"; with a photo of Headingley Rugby Stadium.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 01:59 PM

Massive upper Carboniferous sandstones alternating with thin, dark shales. Much-twisted and folded by the Armorican mountain-building phase. Makes for some great sea cliffs.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 02:08 PM

Cheers, Steve.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 05 Feb 21 - 02:10 PM

With a couple of photos from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, my poem "Monopoly on Weaponry"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 06 Feb 21 - 06:15 PM

With lots of photos of Kew's Kitchen Garden, and a couple of lakes, my song/chant from WalkaboutsVerse "Just Subsist"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 07 Feb 21 - 04:29 PM

With a photo of London buses, my poem on "Congestion"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 12:03 PM

With photos of the Colosseum, Burj Khalifa and, soon to be, Buckingham Public Hospital, my poem "Along with the Ingenuity"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Malcolm Storey
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 12:53 PM

Just south of York where the York - Leeds railway line diverges from the East Coast Main Line is an area were a minor crosses over both lines.
This is a popular spot with rail enthusiasts.
It is also a good place to see bee orchids - from late spring onwards.
Always provided we will be allowed to visit.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Malcolm Storey
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 02:45 PM

Whoops

Should have typed minor ROAD - dindawlexting fingerts

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 03:04 PM

Thanks Malcolm - I know roughly where you mean and am quite sure I've been on the line between Leeds and York (probably for a work F2F meeting way back in the pre-Covid days!).

And I've never come across bee orchids but would like to try and photograph them and, if any good, attach to one or two of my poems...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 04:42 PM

Bee orchids were discovered in Bude about 20 years ago - in a patch of rough grass right behind the tourist information centre. I have some lovely photos (somewhere...)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 04:59 PM

I shall have to remember that for my next visit - "Bee Orchids' Bude," as well as, mentioned before, from my last visit "Birdwatchers' Bude".

...bridge camera on macro mode, probably...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 05:07 PM

Their flowering period is very brief, maybe around mid-June to mid-July.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 04:33 PM

With mummy photos from the British Museum in London, my poem on "Global Regulationism"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 05:21 PM

With photos of me and my music, my poem "Testing 4,3,2,1"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Feb 21 - 04:20 PM

A tad late for Valentine's Day but with photos of a couple of head-turned collared doves, plus a few of Manchester's bees, my love song "We Go Together"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 03:05 PM

With some photos from Manchester Art Gallery, my poem "More Pictures"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 04:50 PM

Several photos attached to my song on a bus trip form Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens to "The Mersey At Didsbury"
- near my first of some 16 homes.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 Feb 21 - 01:18 PM

With several pictures of the castle and the views, my poem on, in Lancashire, "Clitheroe Castle's Views"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Feb 21 - 06:27 PM

With about 40 photos taken with my bridge camera in August 2019, my poem "Whalley Abbey...What Tales?"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 10:33 AM

Above ground where ther is more sky I stand on top of ‘the mountain of perspective’.
This mountain ‘starts off’ at the apex where there is infinite perspective
but once I move down away from this apex, the degree of perspective drops away.
As we move further down the mountainside I end up in an ever-deepening gully
The walls on each side rise up higher and higher, cutting off otherb routes.
At the top I could see in all directions and horizons went hundres of miles
At the bottom, I had no more freedom, I was irrevocably tied to my my feet on a path.
Underground in my minds eye a tunnel of infinite length and cracks and tunnel furrows.
Every furrow is infinite, and there are infinite numbers of them ye I see but one.
To gaze into it means to be trapped by it, to live in that furrow ignoring others

This reality is as an endless array of possible view none of which are essentially true,
and each of which excludes awareness of other views.
The only essential truth is the truth of the tunnel, which contains all the furrows,
If you can see all the furrows, then you can see how none of them are evrything
From mountain top to underground I see how with my eyes most information is lost.
I need new eyes beyond the sky and space and time to see the overwhelming truth.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 10:48 AM

Can anyone here post a live work of spontaneous invention and not just canned formulaic trivia with rules besides me?
It doesn't have to be perfect, just live in the moment and real.

All Dave's candy bars are alike. Who has something different?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 11:41 AM

Donuel: before I sat down to write poetry, I read a lot from the anthology of English verse and, in my collection, tried to use lots of different structures, as well as coming up with 1 or 2 of my own.

As for "in the moment," it's true that I have sat on the 230 poems and songs I self-published in 2003, but I have kept working at it - adding notation to the songs/Chants from Walkabouts and, as per this thread, photos from going back to the places I wrote about with my bridge camera.

And, just a few days ago, I have started adding a "Location on Google Maps" link at the foot of each blog/poem, in case folks are impressed enough to investigate towards their own visit.

That said, in agreement with you, I think, re "I was irrevocably tied to my feet on a path", I also feel folks should stick to the path rather than ramble anywhere - better for wildlife, etc.

And also fine with me if others wish to post their verses here.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 01:52 PM

With quite a few photos of Blackpool (including the Illuminations) and Fleetwood on the Lancashire coastline, plus the abovementioned Google Maps link, my poem on "A Good Seaside Day"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 02:41 PM

I am sure you have explored and discovered details nearly every little furrow. To gaze into one type of furrow imo means to be trapped by it, to live in that is a grave and not a farmers crop of diverse beauty and food for thought.
Don't denigrate Rambling - Bucko. That man has rambled means that he has inherited the Earth and did not remain in a valley in Africa to die. The Gettysburg address was the ramblings of a man on a train headed to Gettysburg.
With all due respect you are an expert organizer. Organization may fool the eye but not the heart. I prefer artists.
Example: your search for other people's rules and methods prove they are not your own like a singer who copies other people's style but have no voice of their own..Finding your own voice is not an easy thing to do. It is as hard as throwing away what you think you know and beggining anew. What you do is still better than one line inspirational corporate posters like "Hang in there kid".

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 02:51 PM

Ouch - I hadn't copped a "Bucko" since my schooldays in the suburbs of Sydney!

Traditions exist where folks have been impressed by how their forebears did things, and I don't regret reading/studying Wordsworth, Blake, Shakespeare, etc., before attempting my own verse; that said, as I said just above, there are structures that I have not seen anywhere else in my collection - e.g., in "Wise"
it's the second last syllable that rhymes.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 02:55 PM

Why don't you ask mods to change your thread title to:
Unique Poems and WAV by Dave


This would be more inclusive and satisfying to your ego.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 05:48 PM

The uniqueness of this thread is that I'm adding pics to the travel poems which, to complete, could take quite some time, I'm afraid, Donuel:

A trip to the north of Sweden; another to Berlin (my first and only visit included going through Checkpoint Charlie in 1988), Paris and Nice/Monaco; Manchester > New York > LA > Tijuana > LA > Hawaii > Manchester; and a limited version of my trip from London back to what was then my home in Sydney - Mumbai > Gulmarg and Srinigar? > Kathmandu > Bali > Uluru > Adelaide > Ballarat > Echuca > Sydney.

And, from Sydney whilst staying with my family, a flight up to Cairns to visit Kuranda again; and a return flight to Fiji.

Plus several day trips in Lancashire to complete Part 3 of WAV - "Walkabout Lancashire".

For what it's worth, since publishing in 2003, I have only been to 2 new nations, as stop-overs when visiting family in Sydney - Qatar and UAE. I have, however, already been back to some nations with the photos above.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 06:03 PM

Well that work sounds like epic proportions. All I have for suggestions is a forward that could include details such as disease encounters, political and personal information not found in travel guides. Playing up the facts and not the poetry could make this more appealing to publishers. Separate the 'poems' not related to travel elsewhere.
Climb every mountain, fill every niche. :^)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Feb 21 - 06:24 PM

Non-travel poems are "elsewhere", D - under Conclusions; the full title is "Walkabouts: travels and conclusions in verse".

If I'm still alive, I was thinking of trying my hand at digitally illustrating some of those without pics..?

Self publishing has been interesting: I've learnt the basics of desktop publishing, sound recording and engineering, printing, fonts, book binding, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Feb 21 - 04:15 PM

"Irony In Lancaster"
, Lancashire, with several photos.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 03:16 PM

"Proud Preston" with several photos of its interesting bridges over the River Ribble.