David Franks

@WalkaboutsVerse
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Anthropology major/did farm, factory & office work/sport, nature & travel 📸, poetry & music...Life’s work (poems, songs & pics): http://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity All my "Chants from Walkabouts", plus my Weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poem, e.g., may be found at this communal #poetry site - https://writeoutloud.net/profiles/davidfrankswalkaboutsverse
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My Weekly WalkaboutsVerse #poetry blog, e.g., is my #poem on, in the south of Sydney, "Cronulla" https://davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/weekly-wav.html
Weekly WAV

Poem 8 of 230:  CRONULLA South of Sydney,     Sand and sea - That’s Cronulla. Surfies and girls,     Sunbleached curls - At Cronulla. The pr...

#PalmSunday #Easter I agree with Jesus on other things but, as an adult, would never ride on a donkey - which may be okay for children along a beach front, e.g.); my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, "A Good Life" https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walkaboutsverse-95-of-230.html
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...

My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on grand-buildings & inequality, "Along With The Ingenuity" https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/walkaboutsverse-104-of-230.html
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...

Re #CountryFile presenters, when I repatriated in 1997, there was a case that those of Asian & African origin were not fairly represented on our TV - now they ARE overrepresented, which isn't fair on photogenic competent English; my poem on "England's TV" https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/walkaboutsverse-69-of-230.html
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 -    ...

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...

My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on Italy as "A Beautiful Stage" https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walkaboutsverse-16-of-230.html
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...

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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Poem 146 of 230:  HORSES FOR COURSES? To some (in income-anticipation),     Horse baulking, at gates, is a small debase; To me, it seem...

WALKABOUTSVERSE 67 OF 230

Poem 67 of 230:  AT A POND By habit,     At a pond, I look down     Into it, With the wish     Of finding Signs of life -     Like...