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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 43 of 230: A BAYSWATER BED-SIT Arrived in London, At Heathrow Airport, With sixty kilos Of luggage I'd brought. Found a paper,...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem on, in #London, "A Bayswater Bed-sit" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 53 of 230: WHY THE YEW? To paraphrase one of my uncles, Showing a church in Hertfordshire: When you see an old English parish, ...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem wondering "Why the Yew?" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 143 of 230: OLYMPICS OR GLOBALISATION? Largely, I’d say, an Olympic Games is One nation’s way v. other nations, During fairly-foug...
#Tokyo2020 My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem on "#Olympics or Globalisation?" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 19 of 230: JET With time-based rail passes (As many youths still do), I caught the trains through Europe - A good time it was...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is, with the #TDF2021 approaching #Paris, my #poem, from a visit in 1988, "Jet" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 61 of 230: WORSLEY VILLAGE Where earliest of coal-canals meet, And have their waters ochred By the seepage of old-deep-mine earth;...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is, with the RHS Garden Bridgewater just opened nearby, my #poem on "#Worsley Village" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 222 of 230: FROM THE MINORITY More-and-more at tennis tournaments, Cheap-shots drop from somewhere in the crowd: A whistle during ...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is, with #RolandGarros ending & #Wimbledon soon to start, my #poem on #tennis crowds, "From the Minority" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 215 of 230: MOODS MORE NICE As haggling Tends to cause Some wrangling, Seeing price Tends to cause Moods more nice. (C) David Franks...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem, on haggling versus price-tags, "Moods More Nice" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 196 of 230: BLYTH - AUTUMN 2002 After a day Of moulding work, I made my way To Blyth’s centre, Where windmills play Near t...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem on "#Blyth" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 135 of 230: ON THE 2001 ELECTION Culturally Tory/ Economically Old-Labour - Cold waiver. (C) David Franks 2003 - https://walk...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem "On the 2001 Election" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 105 of 230: GLOBAL REGULATIONISM No income-scale would be unjust - It’s a matter of degree; And, to have less inequality, Regu...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem on "Global Regulationism" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 55 of 230: TIN-MINERS’ LUNCH Visiting relatives in Cornwall, I saw the mines tin-miners mined, The type of lunch they liked to eat...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem, from #Cornwall, "Tin-Miners' Lunch" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 95 of 230: A GOOD LIFE For fauna, Home-flora. Falconry - Starve or free? Sheep for wool - Fed till full. Chooks for eggs -...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem on animal rights "A Good Life" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 35 of 230: GROWING UP During my early twenties, At one of Europe’s cities, I was walking late at night When I came upon this s...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem on "Growing Up" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 66 of 230: TO SCOTLAND, AGAIN By coach from central Manchester - In-between stops at Bolton, Carlisle, and Hamilton - To Glasg...
#SNP My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem "To #Scotland, Again" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 4 of 230: PICTURING SYDNEY A good place to start is Sydney Tower, With its enthralling panoramic feast: Olympic grounds - west; to...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem about "Picturing #Sydney" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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Poem 134 of 230: RAWTENSTALL - SPRING 2001 A whistle’s “okay, go” scream, Plus the sight and sound of steam Against a stone tunnel-wall...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem about a steam-train trip to "#Rawtenstall" in Lancashire davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 23 of 230: ABOVE EVEREST When flying from Nepal to Thailand, I was given a “good-side” seat; And, as I looked out the plane window...
My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem about flying "Above #Everest" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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David Franks: Walkabouts Verse: Weekly WAV
Poem 113 of 230: FOLLOWING THE SUN - SPRING 2000 Having moved, by buses, up the hill from Salford to Bury (To be within walk of new wor...
#spring My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is my #poem, from Greater #Manchester, about "Following the Sun" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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Poem 27 of 230: ADELAIDE In work and study, I spent four years - Good years really - At Adelaide. A flat by the sea - Work near...
#adelaideupdates My weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, e.g., is - on a place in #Australia where I once lived - my #poem about "#Adelaide" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
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