BS: WAV with Pics

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jun 21 - 02:43 PM

Not every picture is worth a 1,000 words.
1,000 words can't describe a masterpiece.
Birds on wires only look like music script.
Words may resemble whats been better said
but in hollow, boring, and lifeless ways.
Keep mundane mondays give me saturday night

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Jun 21 - 01:48 PM

Having visited with my pen a couple of decades ago, and with my bridge camera a couple of days ago, please find some pics newly attached to my poem on, in Greater Manchester, "Worsley Village"

...if one can't write a decent poem or take some decent photos of this place...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Jun 21 - 05:38 PM

A couple more photos and captions added to the second-last poem in my collection of 230, "Joys Of Life"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jun 21 - 03:14 PM

...or, indeed, Rome's Foro Italico area, where Italy are now playing Switzerland in the Stadio Olimpico, and where I saw qualifying matches for the Italian Open tennis 2 years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Jun 21 - 04:22 PM

Yesterday, after receiving my second Covid jab there, I took some photos of Manchester's SportsCity area - a huge sports hub akin to the Bois de Boulogne area of Paris, or the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct.

Hence, 5 pics added to my poem "Manchester - A Gist"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 01:40 PM

With photos from the British Museum, in London, and a Diego Rivera print in my flat, my poem on "A Multicultural World of Carrying"

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

Broke away from the French Open tennis for an evening outing to an ex home in Eccles with my camera - adding pics to my poem "From an Eccles Flat" (as you may know, where Eccles cakes come from).

(I also added a photo of the Eccles War Memorial to the above "Remember Them?" poem.)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jun 21 - 05:34 PM

With photos of war memorials in London and Lancashire, my poem "Remember Them?"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 May 21 - 11:10 AM

E.g., on another thread, MG tells us he hopes to visit Kerry, among other places, in these isles, later this year; I read the thread and decide to post my poem about playing golf at the beautiful Ring of Kerry, only to find it has been deleted - as I say, that (a waste of my time for me and possible loss of inspiration for MG) did NOT happen for many years.

WalkaboutsVerse can't respond in verse, while others can?!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 May 21 - 10:13 AM

My understanding is this - because (whatever the quality) I have written poems on many topics, I can and have linked them to many threads on Mudcat; thus, I was instructed a few years ago that I'm no longer allowed to copy/paste the verses here but may link to them.

However, just recently, one or two moderators have decided I can't do that either.

As regulars will know, other members may do both..?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Jeri
Date: 31 May 21 - 09:59 AM

Moderators delete spam.
This thread, we don't mess with.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 May 21 - 09:54 AM

Thankfully, others can be clearer, Dave.

With a poem critical of his serving (in more ways than one), and a photo in praise of the beautiful Maxply racket he used, my poem "Serious Serving"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 May 21 - 02:48 AM

It does, WAV, and the moderation team got that pissed off with UK politics finding its way into multiple threads they insisted that it was limited to just one thread. I think that is as clear a warning to stop posting to multiple threads on the same subject as any. If you do not heed that warning it is no skin off my nose but you will have no one to blame but yourself for the consequences. I don't see how I can make it any clearer.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 May 21 - 01:42 PM

"if you don't like something, fine, just say you don't and leave it at that"...you are not thinking clearly there, Dave - lots of debate happens on Mudcat, rather than just giving a thumbs-up or down, thank God.

And, e.g., my polite criticisms (and those from others) of Eurovision were not deleted, pleasingly.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 27 May 21 - 01:29 PM

I don't think I am getting my point across well enough. Having a couple of threads for your poetry is fine. It is when you pop up on many random threads posting your poems, links to them or your own pecullier brand of nationalism that people get pissed off. As I said elsewhere, if you don't like something, fine, just say you don't and leave it at that. Don't try to take over other peoples threads for your own self-aggrandisment.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 May 21 - 12:55 PM

No, Dave - way back, I used to post my Weekly WalkaboutsVerse on a Mudcat thread (as well as Twitter, MySpace, FB, WriteOutLoud, & LInkedin); I only started this one because I started adding photos to the blogs/poems on my Google Blogger site.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 27 May 21 - 12:42 PM

Maybe just stick to one thread for posting your poems? With or without pics.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 May 21 - 11:32 AM

As I said on the Read Every Thread thread, Dave - a change on Mudcat is that I used to be able to link (but not copy/paste) one of my poems on a relevant thread; but, nowadays, more-and-more, they get deleted - e.g., there is a current thread on trains where I posted my poem on a train journey to Rawtenstall, Lancashire, which was soon deleted, sadly.

For what it is worth, I will be posting less often on here now - I have been reading through and adding/captioning photos already taken, but that is just about done.

Thus, mainly just after an outing with my camera now to add new pics to some of my poems...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 26 May 21 - 01:01 PM

I told you that I will happily piss on your parade. You have been having posts deleted I believe. I am not at all surprised given how you turn every other thread you post to into something about you or your 'poetry'. Give it a rest and I will stop posting here :-)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 May 21 - 04:13 PM

With just the one pic of the mudflats in Morecambe, Lancashire, my poem on "On Fishing Regulation"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 May 21 - 12:15 PM

As I've posted before, Dave, I like eco-tourism between our United Nations.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 May 21 - 05:52 AM

You should stick to the town you were born in instead of culturally appropriating other peoples...

:D

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 May 21 - 06:21 PM

With photos from England, Australia and Kenya, my poem on zoos "In Situ"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 May 21 - 06:49 PM

With pics taken this afternoon and sorted this night, my poem on, in the south of Manchester, "Wythenshawe Park"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 May 21 - 04:31 PM

With a few pics perhaps strengthening my case, my poem on "Atlas Siblings - Newcastle upon Tyne, and London"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 May 21 - 03:35 PM

A few pics added to my poem on "Bede's World" (now called Jarrow Hall) in Newcastle upon Tyne

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 May 21 - 01:59 PM

With photos of the staithes (in NE England, landing stages), my poem on "Blyth"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 May 21 - 05:26 PM

With photos added via joining the 5pm Queue after work in 2014 (not an option this year due to Covid), my poem "Musing on Wimbledon - Summer 2002"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 May 21 - 05:06 PM

With a few pics of the neat harbour and a Google Maps link, my poem on "Cullercoats"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 May 21 - 04:50 PM

With a photo of The Great North Road/my road to Damascus, getting me into folk music back in 2002, "The 35th Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 May 21 - 04:41 PM

"A Second Ballet"
including photos of Sydney Opera House.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 10 May 21 - 01:36 PM

With just the one pic, my poem "Weathered Pipes...Somewhere"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 May 21 - 03:07 PM

With a couple of aerial photos, from North East to South West England "To See an Uncle, Again" (in Bude, Cornwall).

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 07 May 21 - 03:43 PM

With pics, and a video actually taken on New Year 2018 (hopefully, I'll get my camera out again on 5/11/2021), a haiku poem mentioning the gap between the speed of light and sound, noticed on Bonfire Night - "Remember, Remember"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 06 May 21 - 03:27 PM

With newly-captioned photos and a Google Maps link, my poem on "A South Shields Walkabout"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 05 May 21 - 03:24 PM

Verses and photos on, in N.E. England, the "W.W.T. Washington" (Wildfowl and Wetland Trust).

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 May 21 - 04:41 PM

"On A Saturday", with a photo of Newcastle's excellent People's Theatre.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 May 21 - 01:07 PM

3 photos of The Side in Newcastle upon Tyne, attached to my poem on "The Quick Clubbers' Trot in Newcastle"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 May 21 - 05:58 PM

"Wallsend", Newcastle, with pics of Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 May 21 - 03:38 PM

Still masked but having had my first jab, made my first photography outing in many months today (the above are ones newly sorted and captioned from previous such outings).

A simple train journey to Bolton, with photos newly added to these 3 poems -

"Once Churches"

"Entrée"

"Further North"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 30 Apr 21 - 12:47 PM

With 2 pics from Jarrow, Newcastle upon Tyne, my poem "Next Time"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Apr 21 - 01:48 PM

...a fisher of men and women?! With 4 pics, my poem on "Whitley Bay Fishermen"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Apr 21 - 10:08 AM

Celebrate your RAD (reputation after death) now.
Ya can't do it after.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Apr 21 - 03:53 AM

...and Lefty Laver left Australia for money in America...and had an Australian Open arena named after him?!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Apr 21 - 09:23 PM

Another couple of names to compare with...

John Lennon performed an aspect of American culture - pop - and left England for the USA, before having an airport here named after him.

After study and respect for Aboriginal land rights, I have put a lot into my repatriation and am, frankly, extremely unpopular.

When Gandhi, on the other hand, repatriated from Africa to Asia, most Hindus loved him for it and increasingly asked Europeans (most of whom were English) to repatriate.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Apr 21 - 02:08 PM

The (mighty?) McGonagal has spoken for himself, Sandman.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: The Sandman
Date: 28 Apr 21 - 02:00 PM

David have you ever thought of writing a tribute poem to the bard of dundee. you know how in music we have tribute bands well how about a tribute poem to the writer of bridge over the silvery tay

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Apr 21 - 01:57 PM

Hi Raggytash - I completed my collection in 2003 and, admittedly, as I have been on Mudcat a long time, most who wished to have a look would have already done so; but, a few years ago, I decided to add photos to some of the poems - hence this new thread.

E.g., above someone mentioned not liking my poems but did appreciate the photos of My Diet and, according to Google's stats, a few others are clicking on the links to have a look...

With four photos attached, "A Glassy Tyne"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Raggytash
Date: 27 Apr 21 - 06:45 PM

Hmm ?

I understand that people wish to promote their own material.

However .................

If one individual posts over 150 times in less than 2 years is this not a touch of overkill?

I may have been slightly more generous if the material had any merit but from where I am sitting it is unadulterated ..........

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Apr 21 - 04:14 PM

I think the photos, captions, and verses combine particularly well in this one - "Upon Armstrong Bridge", Jesmond Dene, Newcastle upon Tyne.