David Franks: photography, music, poetry - "WalkaboutsVerse"...
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Great for tropical fish & sunsets, photo of Freedom Beach, Phuket, Thailand; 8/12/2024.
One of my #travel #poems from WalkaboutsVerse, with #photos, on "#Blackburn Cathedral" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 125 OF 230
Poem 125 of 230: BLACKBURN CATHEDRAL - AUTUMN 2000 Just out of the station, And past a new statue On human relation (Nan, kid...
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January 27, 2026 at 11:13 PM
One of my #travel #poems from WalkaboutsVerse, with #photos, on "#Blackburn Cathedral" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, from #Newcastle, "Upon Armstrong Bridge" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/07/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 178 OF 230
Poem 178 of 230: UPON ARMSTRONG BRIDGE - AUTUMN 2001 Upon Armstrong Bridge, Above Jesmond Dene (River and ridge, Surrounded by...
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January 27, 2026 at 9:42 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, from #Newcastle, "Upon Armstrong Bridge" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/07/walk...
#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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January 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
#PGATour #DPworldtour #livgolf My WalkaboutsVerse #golf #poetry, with #photography, on "Collecting the Cards" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
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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January 27, 2026 at 4:08 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on a #steam-train journey to "#Rawtenstall" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/11/poem...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, about cars & steering wheels - "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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January 27, 2026 at 1:56 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, about cars & steering wheels - "Other Side" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk...
#BBCtennis #AusOpen/#AO26 As I've said for decades, #tennis hasn't peaked - #Sinner & #Alcaraz, e.g., when stretched on the backhand side, should hit foreshortened LEFT-handed forehands (footballers have to kick with BOTH feet); my Tennis Tips To Try davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/extras-on-...
Extras - On Football And Tennis
Fred Perry, Wimbledon; June 14 Portobello Road Market; Sept. 15 FORSAKEN FOOTBALL : Internationals should be between NATION...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:55 PM
#BBCtennis #AusOpen/#AO26 As I've said for decades, #tennis hasn't peaked - #Sinner & #Alcaraz, e.g., when stretched on the backhand side, should hit foreshortened LEFT-handed forehands (footballers have to kick with BOTH feet); my Tennis Tips To Try davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/extras-on-...
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity My #poem, from a WalkaboutsVerse visit to, in southern #Sydney, with a painting by my late father, "The Camellia Gardens" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/12/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 9 OF 230
Poem 9 of 230: THE CAMELLIA GARDENS In Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, There’s a relaxing place to see: It’s called the Camellia Garden...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:17 PM
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity My #poem, from a WalkaboutsVerse visit to, in southern #Sydney, with a painting by my late father, "The Camellia Gardens" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/12/walk...
#Diversity? #JasmineRenovation 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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January 26, 2026 at 7:41 PM
#Diversity? #JasmineRenovation 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...
What do you get by crossing #capitalism with Chinese medicine? Extinction. My WalkaboutsVerse #poem "Overcome" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/05/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 77 OF 230
Poem 77 of 230: OVERCOME Variety’s a spice of life - Crucial to which is culture; Yet, as the world moves further “right,” Cu...
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January 26, 2026 at 7:16 PM
What do you get by crossing #capitalism with Chinese medicine? Extinction. My WalkaboutsVerse #poem "Overcome" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/05/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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January 26, 2026 at 5:22 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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January 26, 2026 at 3:13 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with lots of #photos, "#Manchester - A Gist" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walk...
From WalkaboutsVerse, with a #photo, "ENTRÉE/AT BOLTON’S ALBERT HALL: #OPERA #SONG - WINTER 2000/1" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 130 OF 230
Poem 130 of 230: ENTRÉE/AT BOLTON’S ALBERT HALL: OPERA SONG - WINTER 2000/1 (TUNE - IN THE KEY OF C MAJOR: G2 A2 B2 c3 B3 c2 d2 c2 B3...
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January 26, 2026 at 1:29 PM
From WalkaboutsVerse, with a #photo, "ENTRÉE/AT BOLTON’S ALBERT HALL: #OPERA #SONG - WINTER 2000/1" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walk...
Re #AusOpen #AO2026, Lefty Laver LEFT Australia, for money in America, & had a major arena in Melbourne named after him?! John Lennon LEFT Liverpool for American & had an airport named after him?! My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Land Rights" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/05/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 76 OF 230
Poem 76 of 230: LAND RIGHTS If there is a good thing, From the Second World War, It’s that most peoples learnt To conquer l...
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January 25, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Re #AusOpen #AO2026, Lefty Laver LEFT Australia, for money in America, & had a major arena in Melbourne named after him?! John Lennon LEFT Liverpool for American & had an airport named after him?! My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Land Rights" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/05/walk...
#BurnsNight I like the Scottish accent & Gaelic but not Scots dialect, frankly; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photography, "To #Scotland, Again" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 66 OF 230
Poem 66 of 230: TO SCOTLAND, AGAIN By coach from central Manchester - In-between stops at Bolton, Carlisle, and Hamilton - To...
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January 25, 2026 at 10:15 PM
#BurnsNight I like the Scottish accent & Gaelic but not Scots dialect, frankly; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photography, "To #Scotland, Again" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/walk...
#ARSMUN #NEvsDEN One thing the #NFL & #PremierLeague have in common is that both should be regulated towards more LOCALS in more MEANINGFUL competition; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, "Reregulate" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 98 OF 230
Poem 98 of 230: REREGULATE One "Premier" world-eleven v. Another such company/ Or wage-caps, and most of each-club’s squad Fr...
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January 25, 2026 at 8:45 PM
#ARSMUN #NEvsDEN One thing the #NFL & #PremierLeague have in common is that both should be regulated towards more LOCALS in more MEANINGFUL competition; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, "Reregulate" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
#Countryfile #RSPCA Selective breeding means cruel castration, often via elastic bands, for all but a few males; thus bulls have become too big for a halter & are steered, rather, via a nose ring & pain; my WalkaboutsVerse poem, with pics, "A Good Life" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.co.uk/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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January 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM
#Countryfile #RSPCA Selective breeding means cruel castration, often via elastic bands, for all but a few males; thus bulls have become too big for a halter & are steered, rather, via a nose ring & pain; my WalkaboutsVerse poem, with pics, "A Good Life" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/walk...
e #CountryFile 25/1/2026, don't like the netting & ringing of birds; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, "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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January 25, 2026 at 6:19 PM
e #CountryFile 25/1/2026, don't like the netting & ringing of birds; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, "A Good Life" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
Re #CountryFile 25/1/2026, my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Holyhead and Surrounds" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/08/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 165 OF 230
Poem 165 of 230: HOLYHEAD AND SURROUNDS - SUMMER 2001 The vivid heaths backed by Snowdon, The water-filled “Giant’s Divots,” And t...
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January 25, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Re #CountryFile 25/1/2026, my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Holyhead and Surrounds" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/08/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem from a visit to Jammu & Kashmir in 1988 - "High Houseboat" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/10/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 22 OF 230
Poem 22 of 230: HIGH HOUSEBOAT When in India, I headed north For the Himalaya. Up, by train then bus, To Kashmir - It was ...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:21 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem from a visit to Jammu & Kashmir in 1988 - "High Houseboat" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/10/walk...
To be annexed by #France with #UnitedNations support? My WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, with #photography, 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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January 25, 2026 at 12:40 PM
To be annexed by #France with #UnitedNations support? My WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, with #photography, on "#Monaco & its Railway Loo": walkaboutsverse.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/walk...
Given #Trump, among other Americans, isn't respecting our #UnitedNations, how about moving it to the home of our world's (to use a bit of Italian) lingua franca - England, perhaps eating into just a bit of London's fine parkland? My Poem "There is a U.N." walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/03/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 218 OF 230
Poem 218 of 230: THERE IS A U.N. Why does the U.S. Have O.S. bases Of influence when There is a U.N.? (C) David Franks 2003 ...
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January 25, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Given #Trump, among other Americans, isn't respecting our #UnitedNations, how about moving it to the home of our world's (to use a bit of Italian) lingua franca - England, perhaps eating into just a bit of London's fine parkland? My Poem "There is a U.N." walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/03/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on grand-buildings & inequality, "Along With The Ingenuity" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 104 OF 230
Poem 104 of 230: ALONG WITH THE INGENUITY Let us not forget - If we should visit The world’s grand buildings, Such as those f...
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January 24, 2026 at 11:57 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on grand-buildings & inequality, "Along With The Ingenuity" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with a #photo from a visit to the #UnitedNations H.Q., on "Landmines" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 85 OF 230
Poem 85 of 230: LANDMINES I’m thinking of Sting’s song “Russians,” Which notes the ways wars can be fought; He highlights nuclear w...
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January 24, 2026 at 11:27 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with a #photo from a visit to the #UnitedNations H.Q., on "Landmines" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walk...
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity All my "Chants from Walkabouts", plus my Weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poem, e.g., may be found at this communal #poetry site - writeoutloud.net/profiles/dav...
David Franks: Walkabouts Verse | Write Out Loud
This is the Write Out Loud profile for David Franks: Walkabouts Verse. Write Out Loud profiles give poets and poetry groups the opportunity to showcase their written and audio work.
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January 24, 2026 at 10:30 PM
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity All my "Chants from Walkabouts", plus my Weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poem, e.g., may be found at this communal #poetry site - writeoutloud.net/profiles/dav...
My Weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry blog, e.g., is my #poem on "Rotating Shifts" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav...
Weekly WAV
Poem 227 of 230: ROTATING SHIFTS There will always be places That need to be staffed Twenty-four hours a day, But I think it’s daft...
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January 24, 2026 at 9:57 PM
My Weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry blog, e.g., is my #poem on "Rotating Shifts" davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav...