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...

#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 28 OF 230 Poem 28 of 230:  ADELAIDE TO SYDNEY Coaching Adelaide to Sydney     Was always the method for me - Due to a somewhat cheaper fee;     B...

My #poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, on trips, many years ago, from "#Adelaide to #Sydney" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/10/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 48 OF 230 Poem 48 of 230:  THE PROMS We walked through Kensington Gardens,     Then veered left for Albert Hall. Promenaders were in their tens, ...

#BBCproms/#TheProms With the 2026 schedule just released, my WalkaboutsVerse #poem on a 1997 attendance, a few days after #PrincessDiana sadly passed away, which included Mozart's & Ravel's music, at - my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #pics - "The #Proms" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/08/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 ...

#RoseParade My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos recently added, on "The Tournament of Roses" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/09/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 207 OF 230 Poem 207 of 230:  REGARDING DRUG ABUSE Whenever I’m feeling bad,     I try to change my thinking - Another poem, a fad…     Or let time...

My WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, on Google's BlogSpot, "Regarding Drug Abuse" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/04/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 41 OF 230 Poem 41 of 230:  EVEN AFTER LINCOLN, STEINBECK, AND KING Written at a public toilet, by the     Statue of Liberty: “What of Equality, F...

#Trump My WalkaboutsVerse #poetry, with #photos attached, questioning America's championing of #democracy "Even after Lincoln, Steinbeck, and King" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/08/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 228 OF 230 Poem 228 of 230:  REPATRIATING - AUSTRALIA TO ENGLAND I toast sliced-bread before frying -     Nigh full-English; I like to sunbathe in win...

Re the line-up for the #WorldSnookerChampionship at the #Crucible, can we PLEASE make the #Ashes, rather, a #snooker competition between England & China, such that, as a repat, I can have some peace?! My #poem on "Repatriating - Australia to England" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/02/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 203 OF 230 Poem 203 of 230:  IN SITU When faced with a critical view,     A zoo’s main  raison d’être is - The conservation of species;     But ...

#LondonZoo #ZSL200 Re #zoos & retraining zoologists, I accept captive breeding & release can save species BUT, respecting EVOLUTION, such #conservation, rehabilitation & education, should be done (my WalkaboutsVerse #poem) "IN SITU" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/04/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 220 OF 230 Poem 220 of 230:  AMERICANS Before becoming a guest-lecturer,     “Ethnic Americans,” said a leader From an equally-ethnic U.S. kind - ...

#IranWar‌ #RegimeChange The #Trump's should repatriate to either bonnie Scotland or Slovenia, & make way for the U.S.A. to be run by a Council of Native Americans/Amerindians/First Nations; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Americans" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/03/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 -...

Re UK Government scrapping the two-child benefit cap & a sign I saw in India saying "Have 1 or 2, & that will do", if less humans are born, it's definitely better for all those that are & our planet; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Congestion" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 225 OF 230 Poem 225 of 230:  AFTER PSALM 118:9 AND MATTHEW 4:8-10 The monarchies,     Now, are blasphemies - The only born-ruler     Is a God-cho...

Re #AntiquesRoadshow 19/4/2025 on the late (competent) #QueenElizabeth, my WalkaboutsVerse #poem on monarchism "AFTER PSALM 118:9 AND MATTHEW 4:8-10" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/02/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...

My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on #Italy as "A Beautiful Stage" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 51 OF 230 Poem 51 of 230:  NAIROBI Where alcohol     And corruption Tend to spoil     Dickensian- Like, pro-social,     Neat discretion ...

One of my WalkaboutsVerse #poems, with #photos, on "#Nairobi", Kenya walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walk...

#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity My #poem on lack of respect in a housing estate where I used to live - "Perfida Gens" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/08/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 128 OF 230 Poem 128 of 230:  SKY VIEWS - AUTUMN 2000 From a council-flat in Bury,     Through a wide window, I see - Landing on neighbouring tiles...

One of my #poems, from WalkaboutsVerse, from a flat in #Bury, Greater #Manchester, on Google BlogSpot, "Sky Views" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walk...

#WritinginJanuary #PoetryCommunity My #poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, on "The Plastics of #Poetry" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/05/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  ...

My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with plenty of #photos (including from a Walkabout the F1/E circuit), on "#Monaco & its Railway Loo" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/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  ...

My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with plenty of #photos (including from a Walkabout the F1/E circuit), on "#Monaco & its Railway Loo" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/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...

My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photography, on #Google BlogSpot, "#Manchester - A Gist" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walk...

Re #GardenersWorld 17/4/2026, a plant that, as Monty told us, evolved in its native New Zealand/Aotearoa should NOT be grown in London's new QE2 Garden; & (even if she happened to be competent) we should be ending NOT championing #monarchism; more here walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com

Re #GardenersWorld 17/4/2026, a plant that, as Monty told us, evolved in its native New Zealand/Aotearoa should NOT be grown in London's new QE2 Garden; & (even if she happened to be competent) we should be ending NOT championing #monarchism; more here walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com

WALKABOUTSVERSE 162 OF 230 Poem 162 of 230:  TEES TO TYNE:  FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001 (TUNE - IN THE KEY OF G MAJOR: E3 F#1 F#1 E2 D2 E3 F#1 F#3 F#3 G1 G1 ...

My WalkaboutsVerse #song, on Googles BlogSpot, with #photography, "Tees to Tyne - first impressions" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/08/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 191 OF 230 Poem 191 of 230:  WEATHERED PIPES…SOMEWHERE? - WINTER 2001/2 As we spun slowly through a warmer winter-night,     Some birds sung sweetl...

#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, "Weathered Pipes...Somewhere?" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/05/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 164 OF 230 Poem 164 of 230:  BARROW-IN-FURNESS, SEEN WITH A PAL - SUMMER 2001 Forests, fell-views, wind-farms and sands behind,     The train, whil...

My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, "Barrow-In-Furness - Seen With A Pal" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/09/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 29 OF 230 Poem 29 of 230:  MAZDA In Nadi, Fiji, beside the airport,     There’s a course where I played a game. I was met by a young Fijian lad, ...

My WalkaboutsVerse #peom from a visit to #Fiji, "Mazda" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/10/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 101 OF 230 Poem 101 of 230:  JUST SUBSIST (TUNE - IN THE KEY OF G MAJOR: D2 F#3 G2 F#3 G2 A3 G2 G3 D2 A3 A2 G3 F#2 G3 G2 G3 D2 B3 B2 A3 G2 A3 G2...

My WalkaboutsVerse #song, with #photos, "Just Subsist" 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,    ...

With #ChateauDIY continuing to encourage have-a-go-heroes rather then those TRAINED at technical colleges, the quality of housing-stock declines; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "Global Regulationism" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/walk...

Standards in England, sadly, are dropping to those of its third-world #immigrants from Africa & South Asia, who also struggle to get enough sunlight/#vitaminD this far north of the equator - stop #immigration/start repatriation; my #poem on this - walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 180 OF 230 Poem 180 of 230:  WHITLEY BAY FISHERMEN - AUTUMN 2001 But for the ghostly lighthouse on Saint Mary’s,     The, matching, moonlit wash of...

#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity One of my #poems, from WalkaboutsVerse, with #photos, on "#WhitleyBay Fishermen" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/07/walk...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 133 OF 230 Poem 133 of 230:  OXFORD BLUE - SPRING 2001 A contract ended/a new one begun,     And a move from Bolton back to Bury - A top-floor cou...

My WalkaboutsVerse #poetry on "#Oxford Blue" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/11/walk...