BS: WAV with Pics

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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 - 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: Malcolm Storey
Date: 10 Feb 21 - 02:45 PM

Whoops

Should have typed minor ROAD - dindawlexting fingerts

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 04 Feb 21 - 02:08 PM

Cheers, Steve.

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 - 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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 - 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 - 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: 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: Donuel
Date: 03 Feb 21 - 01:51 PM

I enjoyed that.

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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 05:41 PM

We still do.

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 - 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 - 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: 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: 01 Feb 21 - 02:18 PM

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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.