David Franks: photography, music, poetry - "WalkaboutsVerse"...
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Great for tropical fish & sunsets, photo of Freedom Beach, Phuket, Thailand; 8/12/2024.
#Diversity? #JasminesRenovation Spain needs another El Cid (or El Cid!?) to stop English, Germans, etc., pricing young Spanish couples out of the property market, & ruining native trad culture, for #APlaceInTheSun; my #poem "Nationalism Without Conquest" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 84 OF 230
Poem 84 of 230: NATIONALISM WITHOUT CONQUEST Everything in moderation..? Well, with “nationalism” it’s true - It can carry unique c...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
#Diversity? #JasminesRenovation Spain needs another El Cid (or El Cid!?) to stop English, Germans, etc., pricing young Spanish couples out of the property market, & ruining native trad culture, for #APlaceInTheSun; my #poem "Nationalism Without Conquest" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walk...
#Pasadena #RoseParade With #photos added from a recent revisit, my WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, from a first visit to #LosAngeles in 1996-97, on "The Tournament of Roses" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/09/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 38 OF 230
Poem 38 of 230: THE TOURNAMENT OF ROSES Having, mostly, enjoyed my visit: Walking and busing along the coast, A Hollywood film in ...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#Pasadena #RoseParade With #photos added from a recent revisit, my WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, from a first visit to #LosAngeles in 1996-97, on "The Tournament of Roses" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/09/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on free-verse "Audience Lost" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/10/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 148 OF 230
Poem 148 of 230: AUDIENCE LOST I returned, again, To what they pen - The "free-verse poets": Deep prose in sets… I could read...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on free-verse "Audience Lost" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/10/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, questioning "Horses for Courses?" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/10/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 146 OF 230
Poem 146 of 230: HORSES FOR COURSES? To some (in income-anticipation), Horse baulking, at gates, is a small debase; To me, it seem...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, questioning "Horses for Courses?" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/10/walk...
To be annexed by #France with #UnitedNations support? My WalkaboutsVerse #poetry on "#Monaco & its Railway Loo": walkaboutsverse.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 18 OF 230
Poem 18 of 230: MONACO AND ITS RAILWAY LOO Neither by stealth, I was shocked, too, Among the wealth By ...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
To be annexed by #France with #UnitedNations support? My WalkaboutsVerse #poetry on "#Monaco & its Railway Loo": walkaboutsverse.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/walk...
#ADgolfchamps #PGATour #DPworldtour #livgolf My WalkaboutsVerse #golf #poetry, with #photography, on "Collecting the Cards" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 97 OF 230
Poem 97 of 230: COLLECTING THE CARDS Some folks are plant diehards, Others keep foreign coins; Twitchers collect sightings, A...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#ADgolfchamps #PGATour #DPworldtour #livgolf My WalkaboutsVerse #golf #poetry, with #photography, on "Collecting the Cards" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
#TAX Watched a documentary on "Branson" yesterday - he does NOT seem a competent person but, rather, has got rich by taking risks & paying staff far less than himself, such that he now has 100s or 1000s of times more wealth. My poem "Global Regulationism" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 105 OF 230
Poem 105 of 230: GLOBAL REGULATIONISM No income-scale would be unjust - It’s a matter of degree; And, to have less inequality, ...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#TAX Watched a documentary on "Branson" yesterday - he does NOT seem a competent person but, rather, has got rich by taking risks & paying staff far less than himself, such that he now has 100s or 1000s of times more wealth. My poem "Global Regulationism" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Proud #Preston" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 122 OF 230
Poem 122 of 230: PROUD PRESTON - AUTUMN 2000 Heavy autumnal rain Had surged the Ribble’s flow When I walked to and fro The ...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Proud #Preston" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on animal welfare, "A Good Life" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 95 OF 230
Poem 95 of 230: A GOOD LIFE For fauna, Home-flora. Falconry - Starve or free? Hatched-cocoons For silk looms. Kosher and...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on animal welfare, "A Good Life" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, about hitching a lift in a car with the wheel on the "Other Side" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 11 OF 230
Poem 11 of 230: OTHER SIDE On the road from Inverness to Glasgow (A very scenic road it is), I hitched with a pair - Italiano ; ...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, about hitching a lift in a car with the wheel on the "Other Side" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk...
#BBCresignations As a licence payer for the #BBC who enjoys classical music live & on Radio 3, etc., I think their New Generation Artists (NGA) scheme should be for fellow nationals ONLY; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "Nationalism Without Conquest" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 84 OF 230
Poem 84 of 230: NATIONALISM WITHOUT CONQUEST Everything in moderation..? Well, with “nationalism” it’s true - It can carry unique c...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
#BBCresignations As a licence payer for the #BBC who enjoys classical music live & on Radio 3, etc., I think their New Generation Artists (NGA) scheme should be for fellow nationals ONLY; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "Nationalism Without Conquest" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on Italy as "A Beautiful Stage" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 16 OF 230
Poem 16 of 230: A BEAUTIFUL STAGE If a couple, with plans to wed, Asked me, off the top of my head, On somewhere I thought well in...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on Italy as "A Beautiful Stage" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with lots of #photos, "#Manchester - A Gist" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 57 OF 230
Poem 57 of 230: MANCHESTER - A GIST Sports, large warehouses and merchants are the gist - A centre for distribution and trade, Plu...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with lots of #photos, "#Manchester - A Gist" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walk...
#RemembranceDay/#ArmisticeDay Since WW2, England has been heavily harmed by mass economic/CAPITALIST #immigration - especially since 1997 when Blair, from Scotland, rapidly increased it from the 10s to 100s of thousands per year; my #poem "Remember Them?" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/03/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 212 OF 230
Poem 212 of 230: REMEMBER THEM? Back when we became defenders (We have plainly been attackers), Defenders’ blood, sweat and years ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#RemembranceDay/#ArmisticeDay Since WW2, England has been heavily harmed by mass economic/CAPITALIST #immigration - especially since 1997 when Blair, from Scotland, rapidly increased it from the 10s to 100s of thousands per year; my #poem "Remember Them?" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/03/walk...
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity My #poem, with #photography, from WalkaboutsVerse, on some of the places I've lived (I'm now in #Manchester in my 16th home which, apparently, is about double the average): "Centres" - walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 56 OF 230
Poem 56 of 230: CENTRES The pleasant river-plain of Didsbury - Left seeing gain for my sister and me; The well-planned heart ...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity My #poem, with #photography, from WalkaboutsVerse, on some of the places I've lived (I'm now in #Manchester in my 16th home which, apparently, is about double the average): "Centres" - walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on loss of traditions "People Lose" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 209 OF 230
Poem 209 of 230: PEOPLE LOSE Where, through modern views, T r a d i t i o n s f a l l - Watch the news - ...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on loss of traditions "People Lose" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walk...
#BBCresignations The #BBC should be dissolved & replaced with an English Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish B.C. & Welsh B.C.; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem "On England's T.V." walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 69 OF 230
Poem 69 of 230: ENGLAND’S T.V. With some high notes (From wiser votes), Much of, sadly, England’s T.V. - Notably soaps - ...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#BBCresignations The #BBC should be dissolved & replaced with an English Broadcasting Corporation, Scottish B.C. & Welsh B.C.; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem "On England's T.V." walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/walk...
Since I wrote this, our Mail has also been privatised, sadly. My #poem, from WalkabousVerse, re #utilities, "Oh, Please Renationalise" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/02/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 226 OF 230
Poem 226 of 230: OH, PLEASE RENATIONALISE Less able to move workers To the site of a harsh storm, Far too-lengthy power-cuts, ...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Since I wrote this, our Mail has also been privatised, sadly. My #poem, from WalkabousVerse, re #utilities, "Oh, Please Renationalise" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/02/walk...
Whilst English couples are doing the right thing & having, on average, less than 2 children these days, the number of Asian- & African-origin citizens is, sadly, rapidly increasing in our already overcrowded nation; my WalkaboutsVerse poem on "Congestion" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 102 OF 230
Poem 102 of 230: CONGESTION The waxing view; And the taboo: Increasingly now, for congestion, Leaders make this sort of suggestion -...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Whilst English couples are doing the right thing & having, on average, less than 2 children these days, the number of Asian- & African-origin citizens is, sadly, rapidly increasing in our already overcrowded nation; my WalkaboutsVerse poem on "Congestion" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/walk...
#Railway200 My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on a steam-train journey to "Rawtenstall" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/11/poem...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 134 OF 230
Poem 134 of 230: RAWTENSTALL - SPRING 2001 A whistle’s “we are off” scream, Plus the sight and sound of steam Against a stone tunn...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
#Railway200 My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on a steam-train journey to "Rawtenstall" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/11/poem...
Of course we should accept same-sex couples, but NOT them adopting children, whose rights MUST come first. My WalkaboutsVerse #poem "FROM 20TH-CENTURY SEXUALITY" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 88 OF 230
Poem 88 of 230: FROM 20TH-CENTURY SEXUALITY From one-lover to free-lover to fee-lover, For children’s sakes, let’s fashion back to o...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Of course we should accept same-sex couples, but NOT them adopting children, whose rights MUST come first. My WalkaboutsVerse #poem "FROM 20TH-CENTURY SEXUALITY" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #song, with #photos attached, "Lancashire Sung Simply" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/11/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 136 OF 230
part three (cont.) WALKABOUT LANCASHIRE (conclusions) Poem 136 of 230: LANCASHIRE SUNG SIMPLY (TUNE - IN THE KEY OF F MAJOR: D2 A2...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #song, with #photos attached, "Lancashire Sung Simply" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/11/walk...
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity My #poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, on art & fiction, "The Bottles on the Wall" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/04/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 208 OF 230
Poem 208 of 230: THE BOTTLES ON THE WALL I would say, overall, From using libraries And viewing galleries, The twentieth centu...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity My #poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, on art & fiction, "The Bottles on the Wall" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/04/walk...
Re #AntiquesRoadshow 9/11/2025 & sate, with plenty of cons, making that cruel custom illegal was one of the pros of British rule in India; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "China & India in 1988" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 20 OF 230
Poem 20 of 230: CHINA AND INDIA IN 1988 China and India: Dense populations both; But China is, by far, Much more humane - my ...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Re #AntiquesRoadshow 9/11/2025 & sate, with plenty of cons, making that cruel custom illegal was one of the pros of British rule in India; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "China & India in 1988" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk...
My Weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry blog, e.g., is my #poem "Remember Them?" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav...
Weekly WAV
Poem 212 of 230: REMEMBER THEM? Back when we became defenders (We have plainly been attackers), Defenders’ blood, sweat and years W...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
My Weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry blog, e.g., is my #poem "Remember Them?" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav...