Walkaboutsverse

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Mar 07 - 01:52 PM

One day you may vamos, with any luck

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 12 Mar 07 - 01:54 PM

Vamonos, compadre, ye and I
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a pre-operative tomcat stapled to a table.
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?".
Let us go and make our visit.


A

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 13 Mar 07 - 10:17 AM

(And "let us go" (Amos), for now, from this Chant, but soon "vamos" to another...)
Lancashire:
Red Rose County, God's blessed thee.
THE END

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 13 Mar 07 - 11:40 AM

In the room the women come and go
Talking of Jose Murinho

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 13 Mar 07 - 11:45 AM

LOL, Ruth. T.S. goes global!


A

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 14 Mar 07 - 04:35 AM

Dear Ruth: I don't follow our club football these days, as I like it the way it was - mostly locals in meaningful competition; however, I think you are referring to the manager of a club that has taken to the field without an Englishman - let alone a Cockney. Here, as a brief interlude from Chants, is my brief poetic response to the present farce:

Poem 98 REREGULATE

One Premier world-eleven v.
    Another such company,
Or wage-caps and say half each-club's squad
    From the local-junior pod?

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 15 Mar 07 - 04:23 AM

Another Chant from walkaboutsverse.741.com

42: IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON

Cabs all uniform in their shape.
    Good galleries make one gape.
Hard-going people on the move -
    Things matter much in this groove...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 04:20 AM

I took a train out of London,
    Found a highway and thumbed a ride;
I headed down toward Brighton,
    Then hitch-hiked roads the coast beside...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 16 Mar 07 - 04:58 AM

(Copy/pasted the wrong one, sorry)

About the weather lots of moans.
    Solicits stuck on pay-phones.
Summer weather - not bad, I've felt.
    Lads giving a ball a belt...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 19 Mar 07 - 04:32 AM

Real estate is worth so much -
    Tenants' rent sky-high, as such;
Nice stocky buildings all around -
    Will some have to hit the ground?..

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 21 Mar 07 - 04:05 AM

Cheek to jowl: council flats needed -
    Stock by demand exceeded;
Building higher seems only way -
    Unless less arrive to stay...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 05:28 AM

Beaut. looking girls from many lands -
    Grace gone for capital plans;
Polite folks from many cultures
    Do become money vultures...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 10:49 AM

Alas -- the signs are not auspicious.
Shallow, hackneyed, meretricious,
Butchered rhythms, forms and cases
Feeble hearts with ugly faces
Cheap affairs in tawdry places!
Made in couplets, rhymed for fashion,
Without hint of grace or passion.
Fitful notions, wizened shoots,
Tinny horns with brassy toots,
Heros, dressed in monkey suits.
Protests made by fools as I,
Under God's condemning sky,
Shame the heart left out to dry,
Without caring, without sigh.
I would you sang in poems delicious,
But the signs are not auspicious.

Llewellyn Murfree Gizmoid
Rhymes From the Bog In Back
Manchester, 1999

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 11:31 AM

(Alf Ramsey encouraged calm and discipline NOT "passion", Amos.)

Veiled women in platform shoes.
    High-street beggars in the blues.
Privacy here costs so much -
    Partnerships suffer, as such...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 22 Mar 07 - 12:39 PM

Lame in verse and crippled timing,
Hard to read, and barely rhyming,
Glued to intellectual fashion,
Keep your calm, and give me passion.
You may choose a world of ice;
I think fire's much more nice.
Limping structures void of feeling
Leave the mind asleep and keeling.
Take, oh, take Alf Ramsey's part,
Brains and toenails, dry and stark,
Leave me just the beating heart.

Ralph Ralphing
Back Up to Daylight
Pewkin, Mahgotzut, ed.
Trembling-on-Brinke, 1936

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 23 Mar 07 - 05:18 AM

(And pay a Swede a fortune to tell us how to play our favourite sport: in the 50s, English, on average, were probably the most competent decent people in the world - we are NOT now.)

See movies and shows from way back;
    Of good music there's no lack;
All-day breakfasts at the good pubs;
    An abundance of nightclubs...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 07:57 AM

Green groomed parklands: the best I've seen -
    Their gardens kept neat and clean;
Geraniums in flowerpots
    On facades make pleasing spots...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 26 Mar 07 - 06:41 AM

(One can now hear me warble at - myspace.com/walkaboutsverse)

Floating pubs on the River Thames,
    And its bridges - real gems;
Both ways, here, the water goes -
    Still in range of tidal-flows...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 27 Mar 07 - 09:00 AM

Children at park lakes feed the ducks,
    Or watch squirrels take some nuts.
Into ponds, weeping willows sag.
    Sharp attacks on those who lag.
THE END

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 04:11 AM

(As another brief interlude, I think I'll post a reading of this poem for a second myspace.com/walkaboutsverse piece - and hopefully borrow a digital camera for an accompanying photo...)

173: VALLEY VIEWS - AUTUMN 2001

The winds can whistle and the walls can creak,
    But from my beloved old rocking-chair,
Through a rhombus-patterned lounge-room window,
    The Tyne-valley views induce one to stare:...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,sinky
Date: 28 Mar 07 - 10:56 AM

a rain proof tent is all i need
a fiver for my mouth to feed
a pretty girl who likes to please
with muddy arse and grass stained knees

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 06:07 AM

(Sinking a bit, Sinky)
Over a canopy of estate trees -
    Tall birch, locust, rowan and sycamore -
To the housing, parks, stores and works below,
    Which fringe the river of the valley floor...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,SINKY
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 12:36 PM

I spied a maiden through the trees
i whispered softly on the breeze
fair maiden would you come with me
and pleasure me with muddy knees
my tent a haven to the rain
that pounds upon my buttocks bare
as i fall down upon the ground
and rip off muddy underware

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 12:42 PM

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 29 Mar 07 - 03:10 PM

Dear God! The spouters of inanity have doubled!
Their souls, I'd think, must be most sorely troubled,
Lost and bedeviled, broken-spirited bipeds!
Else ne'er would this thread be so betripéd
Let both these raucous rhymers find his brother;
For Heaven knows, they well deserve each other.

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 30 Mar 07 - 06:03 AM

(What the Dickens?!)
Then up the other side to more parkland,
    More clusters of trees and residencies,
Streets that yield at night sparkles of light,
    Plus the Angel of the North, topping these.
THE END

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Isn't it Byronic?
Date: 30 Mar 07 - 08:43 AM

Hey, I'm inspired by walkaboutsverse's wonderful poems. It has made me realise that anyone can right poetry - even me!! So, I thought I'd have a go. I'm going to use this thread to publish a 19,876,8076 line effort of mine entitled PLEASE GO AWAY THIS THREAD IS RIDICULOUS - SOME THOUGHTS. Its fairly freeform, and I'm going to add a few lines every few days for the infinite future. Maybe check out my free website or some such jazz.

1. PLEASE GO AWAY THIS THREAD IS RIDICULOUS - SOME THOUGHTS

Like a pool of vomit
Only made out of words
And yet I impose it on others
Because I am antisocial cretin...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Mar 07 - 09:02 AM

Sorry Byronic, but you are simply playing into W's hands by involving yourself

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 31 Mar 07 - 06:46 AM

Along with SOME verse, I've also a mild interest in gardening, hence - again from walkaboutsverse.741.com -

141: IN A SMALL POT

I like Acers
    But rent a flat,
So mimic one
    In a small pot:...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 05:43 AM

As for starters,
    I made a plat
Of ivy run
    Out from one spot...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 09:24 AM

Socks, and pebbles of obsidian
Thoughts and objects all quotidian;
Nothing true, or bright, or formal
Dull routine dressed up as normal.
Evil verses, such as these,
Kill the soul by cold degrees.

I-Phuket
Thai Book of the Walking Dead
Bangkok, 1287

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 03 Apr 07 - 06:45 AM

(Hear me read A SOUTH SHIELDS WALKABOUT on myspace.com/walkaboutsverse if you like.)

To this basis
    (All round the mat,
In a trunk-bun)
    Dirt - soaked a lot.

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 10:25 AM

(Can hear me play and sing THE WATER IS WIDE now, if you wish - myspace.com/walkaboutsverse)
Without traces -
    Not got down pat -
A moss-lawn spun
    And short-ferns shot...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 06:09 AM

(Recorded Good Friday, on my PC, you can hear "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" now at myspace.com/walkaboutsverse)

And, like Acers,
    Branches have sat -
Wirework done -
    Toward the pot...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 12 Apr 07 - 05:28 AM

(Did you notice the rhyme repeats each stanza?)
Trimmed with scissors,
    This foliage-hat
Thrives in the sun
    Of my sill-plot.
THE END

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 04:22 AM

(And here is A South Shields Walkabout, which you can hear, along with three other tracks at myspace.com/walkaboutsverse)

Out of the museaum-and-gallery -
Wiser on Cookson and the local way -
Down Ocean Road with, to the right of me,
Its eateries and, left, neat places to stay...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 04:24 AM

I'm sorry to seem like a party pooper, but just when did Mudcat get into the vanity publishing business?
Methinks this belongs in BS too.

G.

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 16 Apr 07 - 04:13 AM

Before, on either side, Marine Parks -
    The southern-one a most beautiful place,
Teeming with moorhen, swans, grebes and mallards
    In a large pond at a scenic-hill's base...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 18 Apr 07 - 04:11 AM

Then (holding chips from the parade's cafe
    And, thus, a flock of gulls squawking above)
Onto the South Pier I made my way:
    Seeing seaweed over rocks, like a glove...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 04:47 AM

And high-and-dry sands held from transgression
    By growth of grass and the weaving of wood;
Plus, in the dim light of a sleepy sun,
    Fishing boats returning to Tynemouth's hood...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsvers
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 07:40 AM

THE END
Now: "State to State"

From Sydney Town,
    In uni. break,
I drove out west
    To earnings make
Onion picking
    On the fields
Of Echuca
    That year's yields...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 10:13 AM

What once was only Bad
Has now grown Worser!
And none to save us from
This madcap verser.
I wish he were
A great deal terser.


A

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Raving Dave
Date: 20 Apr 07 - 03:45 PM

You have to feel sorry for this guy. He is so insecure and lonely that he has to communicate and socialise in this way. How sad he is to spend all his time encroaching upon the Mudcat forum to give vent to his pitiful ramblings. He is even 'singing' on Myspace. He even wants to make folk music his career

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 21 Apr 07 - 06:13 AM

(Feedback varies)
After day's work,
From Y.H.A.,
A group of us
Would not delay
To walk on down
To the dirt rim
Of the Murray
For a cool swim...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 23 Apr 07 - 05:14 AM

On one such day,
    I do declare,
Some three of us
    Had a big dare
To swim across,
    From state to state,
The wide Murray -
    I took the bait...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Apr 07 - 11:10 AM

When is Amos publishing his poetry? It's hilarious - esp the genre pastiches.

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 04:17 AM

Yes, foolishly,
I took the bait -
A choice that I
Would come to hate,
For I almost
Did drown that date,
Making the swim
From state to state.
THE END

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 09:47 AM

111   THE MERSEY AT DIDSBURY - SPRING 2000

Took bus one-four-three,                        
    From Piccadilly,
Along Oxford Road;
    Passed the old uni's,
Those shops with saris,
    And my first abode...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 10:07 AM

How many times, old addled friend,
You've ended couplets with "The End".
A virtuous, kindly thing to do,
Would be to simply make it true.


A

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Leadfingers
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 11:41 AM

300 !!