BS: WAV with Pics

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From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 05:07 PM

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

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 04:33 PM

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

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 05:21 PM

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

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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"

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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?"

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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.

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Mar 21 - 03:16 PM

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

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Mar 21 - 05:04 PM

My song, with several photos from the Sydney Tower Eye and beyond, "Fondly and Vividly"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Mar 21 - 01:23 PM

http://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walkaboutsverse-124-of-230.html with photos including one of a monument to Eric Morecambe.

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

Sorry, not should what happened but above should have been "From Morecambe"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Mar 21 - 02:16 PM

With photos particularly closely matched to the words, one feels, my poem on, in Lancashire, "Blackburn Cathedral"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 05 Mar 21 - 02:55 PM

With just one photo of a Cascade Globe in my flat, my poem from autumn 2000 on "Waterscapes of Oldham"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 06 Mar 21 - 02:15 PM

Quite a few photos from trips "To Spacious Southport"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Mar 21 - 03:50 PM

With a photo of a snowstorm, my poem of thanks "To A Driver"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Mar 21 - 02:41 PM

A poem about a small study in a Bury, Lancashire, flat that, 20 years ago, I painted in "Oxford Blue" - as did the owners of a shop I photographed in Oxford, with the same name, funnily enough!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Mar 21 - 02:53 PM

To err is human - Bury, Greater Manchester, sorry.

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Mar 21 - 04:09 PM

With 8 photos attached, so far, my song "Lancashire Sung Simply"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Mar 21 - 03:30 PM

For Marx, it was religion, of course, but I think the National Lottery is "An Opium"
- my WalkaboutsVerse poem with a photo of a Thai lottery, taken on a visit to, otherwise, wonderfully cultural Chiang Mai.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Mar 21 - 05:51 PM

My poem on "Housing"
with a photo of my 3rd home in Sydney, and a video of my 15th home - a studio flat in Walthamstow, London.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 Mar 21 - 05:32 PM

With a pic and a video, my very brief gardening song "In A Small Pot".

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 22 Mar 21 - 05:17 PM

"Olympics or Globalisation" - with a photo of London's, and Sydney's, Olympic Park.

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Mar 21 - 04:19 PM

My song on golfing lingo, "Lingolf", with a few photos of golf courses, in Hong Kong, Kenya, Australia, and England.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Mar 21 - 05:06 PM

With photos of Lord's, the Bradman Museum in Bowral, the M.C.G, and a couple of other scenic ovals, my cricket poem "Dot-Ball"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Mar 21 - 05:26 PM

With photos of statues and paintings (including one by my late grandfather, and another by George Stubbs), plus captions that just took me an hour or two, my poem questioning "Horses for Courses?"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Apr 21 - 05:40 PM

With a photo from a visit in 2019 to Saint Paul's Basilica in Rome, my poem "Getting to Know God"

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From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 02:00 AM

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From: WalkaboutsVerse - PM
Date: 19 Mar 21 - 05:51 PM

My poem on "Housing"
with a photo of my 3rd home in Sydney, and a video of my 15th home - a studio flat in Walthamstow, London.

you seem to own a lot of homes

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 06:01 AM

At the risk of being accused (damned if do or don't!) of boring you with pedantic detail, Sandman, I have never owned a home and don't wish to: after flying the nest, I've always rented - preferring council/social housing as I don't like capitalism, frankly.

So I'm now living in my 16th home - without owning any of them.

The state should own and rent-out all housing - with some inequality such that folks have the incentive of an economic ladder to climb, via what I've termed "Global Regulationism".

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 03 Apr 21 - 06:39 AM

...and, on my travels, God knows how many other beds I've slept in..?

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 04 Apr 21 - 06:20 PM

On England's south coast, beautiful elegant "Eastbourne"

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 05 Apr 21 - 05:16 PM

Listed in verse from a 2001 visit, with photos from 2017 and 2019 visits, "The Many Elements of Buxton" in Derbyshire.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 06 Apr 21 - 05:16 PM

"Lytham & St. Anne's" - including photos of the famous golf course.

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 07 Apr 21 - 02:54 PM

With a photo of a Youth Hostel Association stamp from 1988, my song on "Windermere" in England's lovely Lake District. (I hope to make, at least, two more visits soon - one with my camera, and one with my swimming togs.)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Apr 21 - 05:51 PM

...in the chorus, I go up and down the scale to try and create the feeling of walking up and down the fells.

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Apr 21 - 04:15 PM

My song "Tees to Tyne: First Impressions" with several photos from my 13 years living in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Apr 21 - 04:36 PM

With photos from return visits to Southport in 2017 & 2018, my poem from 2001, "On A Clear Day"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Apr 21 - 04:30 PM

With just the one photo (so far) of what I termed the "Giant's Divots" of North Wales, my poem on "Holyhead and Surrounds"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Apr 21 - 06:37 PM

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2104/Pencil_TurgeonMishra_3930.jpg
Holy shit Background
Everything emits light particuliary in the IR spectrum so naturally people glow. I am not alone in having a wide spectrum of vision albeit it less intense in color saturation overall. UV looks really violet to bright black. IR looks like a soft white glow to deep red. Some people glow right through their jeans and clothing when background light is low. For people who do not have this light sensing ability it is imperative to never mention it to them for obvious reasons. Especially religious nuts.