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
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, "Barrow-In-Furness - Seen With A Pal" https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/09/walkaboutsverse-164-of-230.html
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Poem 164 of 230:  BARROW-IN-FURNESS, SEEN WITH A PAL - SUMMER 2001 Forests, fell-views, wind-farms and sands behind,     The train, whil...

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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, ...

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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...

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" https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/02/walkaboutsverse-105-of-230.html
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Poem 105 of 230:  GLOBAL REGULATIONISM No income-scale would be unjust -     It’s a matter of degree; And, to have less inequality,    ...

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 - https://walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walkaboutsverse-84-of-230.html
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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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Poem 180 of 230:  WHITLEY BAY FISHERMEN - AUTUMN 2001 But for the ghostly lighthouse on Saint Mary’s,     The, matching, moonlit wash of...

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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...

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...

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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 t...

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Poem 116 of 230:  MOSES GATE - SUMMER 2000 Bordering Bolton     Lies land with lodges - Grassed and paved around,     With decking buil...