Walkaboutsverse

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse
Date: 30 Jan 07 - 08:53 AM

I have a soldiers plight -
Always left, right, left, right...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse
Date: 01 Feb 07 - 08:30 AM

Everything was fine -
Apart from weight and line...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Walksaboutverse
Date: 01 Feb 07 - 11:11 AM

And the fog on the tyne
Which I'm claiming as mine..

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 05:26 AM

(That wasn't me! - I haven't played golf since leaving Manchester for Newcastle in 2001.)
It took a member's bounce.
A rare bird to announce...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 06:25 AM

That's strange - it was posted by member Walkaboutsverse!

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Walksaboutverse
Date: 06 Feb 07 - 03:26 PM

I think my user name says it all.

I am the only REAL walksaboutverse.

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Sparticus
Date: 07 Feb 07 - 01:45 PM

I'm Sparti..... Sorry!

I'm Walksaboutverse!

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 09:28 AM

(From the gallery: "There's only one walka-bouts-verse; there's only one walka-bouts-verse..")
An unlucky horseshoe.
Had a look - liked the view...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Small w versus Large W
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:50 PM

walkaboutverse "verses" Walkaboutverse
I'm confused with handles so diverse

Is it one or is it two
Whom claim to pen this poo

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Sparticus
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:45 PM

Small "verses" Large, Large "verses" small
Size is the key but that isn't all.

Look for "s", small "w",
One alone pens this poo.

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,WALKABOUTSVERSE
Date: 10 Feb 07 - 05:53 AM

(NOT Winnie the...)
Poetry in motion.
Read with blind devotion...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 13 Feb 07 - 07:55 AM

He's just hit a cracker.
I'm only a hacker.

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse
Date: 15 Feb 07 - 09:20 AM

I wish I'd missed the well.
A fried-egg where it fell...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 05:44 AM

A crop of a divot.
It was speed that killed it...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 05:48 AM

A crop of a divot.
It was speed that killed it...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 05:44 AM

Your wedges land so neat -
Butterflies with sore feat...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 17 Feb 07 - 09:12 AM

The tone and caliber of all your verse is just pathetic;
Catharsis other than through art -- a strong emetic
Will serve to cleanse your gut and clear your pores.
I also recommend more time outdoors.
If you, by this prescription, are unswayed,
Then I suggest you go out and get laid.

Winston Carbuthunkle
Lines to Bad Poets
Rankle and Enflammé, Eds.
Glasgow, 1937

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 08:12 AM

(I've been pulished elsewhere, Amos - e.g. The North East Poetry Journal - and have placed in festival-comps.)
Like pitchin' in Puddin'.
Never up, never in...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:23 AM

Drive for show, put for dough.
Can't beat bad luck, you know...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 05:47 PM

Placing in festival competitions when you are the only entry or one of three hardly counts. Especially when the other competitor gets disqualified for entering the wrong comp, as happened in one case.

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 06:37 PM

Oh, hmmmmm? I can only assume you travel in small -- and probably diminishing -- circles.


A

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 04:30 AM

(There's usually about 5 to 10 competitors and 20 to 30 watching; and judges don't have to give any awards out - it's like The Chelsea Flower Show in that way. Plus, I can't remember anyone entering the wrong comp., Guest. Finally, you could at least avoid knocking your own culture to get at me!)
He's just missed a gimme.
That, then, would be dormy...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 12:10 PM

Croxdale 2005

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:09 AM

It went in the side door.
A Bradman of a score...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:39 AM

(When a golfer's put catches the edge of the hole and drops in, folks tend to say "It went in the side door"; and when someone has not had their best round, folks tend to say "A - Donald - Bradman of a score", i.e. a big number on the score-card.)
Just spoiled a good walk.
Can't play, but can he talk!...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 08:33 AM

(I swear their was a post between my last two suggesting I go take an online typing course and giving a link to it, hence the explanation..?)
'Twas daylight robbery.
Not "how" but "how many"...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 23 Feb 07 - 04:58 AM

The nineteenth's not too far -
Have a jar at the bar?
THE END

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 06:14 AM

Another example from my life's work - another lay/poem-come-folk-song:
162   TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001

Where traditions are not so rare;
    Sea, country and works in the air;
A multitude of monuments,
    Planted tubs and patterned pavements.

The longish pedestrian malls;
    The remnants of defensive walls...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,GUEST,walkaboutsverse
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 12:07 PM

Wheat, rape and pillage in the fields;
    Estuaries guarded by shiny shields;
Long sandy beaches with dead whale scenes;
    Romantic Marmite goes between.

Ice-creams in parts licked by trees,
    Or fringed by boat clubs, gantries or a wharf
And crossed by practical delights -
    I'd reach and type more if I wasn't a dwarf

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 24 Feb 07 - 12:11 PM

It really makes me wonder how your brain is wired

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 26 Feb 07 - 04:09 AM

(Please note: the above two posts are mis-wired - although one has clearly visited my website; also "Broken-roofed buildings" refers to a native-style of architecture.) This is where we are up to -

Broken-roofed buildings are a gauge
Of the respect for heritage...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 27 Feb 07 - 10:38 AM

Wheat, rape and pines in the fields;
Estuaries guarded by shields...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Jim Lad
Date: 27 Feb 07 - 04:43 PM

I'll go wash my hands now.

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 01 Mar 07 - 04:52 AM

(Or go for a surf, Jim...)

Long sandy beaches and wide scenes;
Romantic-ruin go-betweens...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 02 Mar 07 - 05:54 AM

Rivers in parts licked by trees,
Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 03 Mar 07 - 06:25 AM

And crossed by practical delights -
Varied spans, forming pleasing sights...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 03 Mar 07 - 10:40 AM

His critics think he does this just to spite 'em --
Weak couplets and bad rhymes, ad infinitum.
God grant the feller takes a pausium
Rather than continue on ad nauseam.

A

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Mar 07 - 08:22 AM

Amos, The guy is not a full shilling and by responding it gives hime encouragement to carry on.

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 05 Mar 07 - 05:01 AM

(Speaking of God, Amos...)
Fine churches headed at Durham;
Football kits ad infinitum...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 06 Mar 07 - 04:03 AM

Kept castles - one for study;
Masonry behind masonry...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 06:05 AM

And, with moulding-works out that way,
It's somewhere for a longer stay...?
THE END (P.S: sixth year in Newcastle, as I post.)

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 04:30 PM

six years 2 long

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 07 - 04:33 PM

Wow, this is one of my favourites of yours, Walkaboutsverse! So true. I sympathise *completely*. *Completely*, I say:

From One Lover to Free Lover to Fee Lover,

    For children's sakes, let's fashion back to One Lover:

In public-life there are - guess what - women and men;

    Thus, upbringing's best by a woman and a man -

Not by one or two men, or one or two women,

    And not in a tug-of-war of women and men.

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 08 Mar 07 - 06:11 AM

(Sadly, one in three of our children now grow-up in broken families, Guest)
The latter is a poem, of course, and on this forum I'd like to go back to my CHANTS FROM WALKABOUTS:

136   LANCASHIRE SUNG SIMPLY

Lancashire:
Cut by rivers, met by sea;
Patched by farmland,
Mills and other industry...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 09 Mar 07 - 04:33 AM

Lancashire:
With your Pennine boundary...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 10 Mar 07 - 06:48 AM

Steeped in history,
Through your buildings there to see...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 12 Mar 07 - 05:27 AM

Lancashire:
Where, through Graces, moorlands be...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:04 AM

Shouldn't that be:

Lancashire:
Where, through Gracie Fields be...

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: Amos
Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:31 AM

And where no-one
Has to pee...
Where beer and nuts
Are given free.
Oh, in Lancashire to be!
That's the place for bloody me...


A

Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
Date: 12 Mar 07 - 08:38 AM

(No - that's just Manitas at work, and Amos with his "vamos" again.)
Wooded parklands,
Flowered gardens - kept neatly...