David Franks: photography, music, poetry - "WalkaboutsVerse"...
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Great for tropical fish & sunsets, photo of Freedom Beach, Phuket, Thailand; 8/12/2024.
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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December 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with lots of #photos, "#Manchester - A Gist" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/07/walk...
#Bondi Trying to have a multiple number of cultures living under the one state law was, & always will be, a terrible idea - it's our world/#UnitedNations that should be multicultural NOT each nation; my WalkaboutsVerse #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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December 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#Bondi Trying to have a multiple number of cultures living under the one state law was, & always will be, a terrible idea - it's our world/#UnitedNations that should be multicultural NOT each nation; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem "Nationalism Without Conquest" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/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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December 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on Italy as "A Beautiful Stage" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk...
#BondiAttack More lives may have been saved if brave Syrian ex-soldier Ahmed Al Ahmed had used the seized rifle (perhaps aiming for the leg), to prevent the terrorist from returning to his son, & spare rifle, on the bridge - but he was a fellow Muslim? walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 100 OF 230
Poem 100 of 230: MONOPOLY ON WEAPONRY Regarding firearm laws, it seems to me, Practically as well as ideally, In an equitable soci...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
#BondiAttack More lives may have been saved if brave Syrian ex-soldier Ahmed Al Ahmed had used the seized rifle (perhaps aiming for the leg), to prevent the terrorist from returning to his son, & spare rifle, on the bridge - but he was a fellow Muslim? walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on animal welfare, "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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December 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on animal welfare, "A Good Life" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
With #photos recently added from a second visit this year, my WalkaboutsVerse #poem on, in the north of Oahu, Hawaii, "The Polynesian Cultural Centre" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/09/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 32 OF 230
Poem 32 of 230: THE POLYNESIAN CULTURAL CENTRE North, on the warm island of Oahu, There’s a really good place to see: The Polynesi...
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December 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
With #photos recently added from a second visit this year, my WalkaboutsVerse #poem on, in the north of Oahu, Hawaii, "The Polynesian Cultural Centre" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/09/walk...
Good 21st century fishers are the fantastic folk who fish out "#Plastics" - my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on their pros & cons: walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 92 OF 230
Poem 92 of 230: PLASTICS Plastics, we so often hear In environmental fear, Are non-biodegradable And, wrongly disposed, horri...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Good 21st century fishers are the fantastic folk who fish out "#Plastics" - my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on their pros & cons: walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
#travel #travelphotography With some #photos from revisits, the 40+ nations, of the 193 #UnitedNations, I've visited - davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/nations-iv...
Nations I've Visited
(WalkaboutsVerse was first published in 2003, and I began digital-photography about 4 years later - adding some, via return visits, to walka...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
#travel #travelphotography With some #photos from revisits, the 40+ nations, of the 193 #UnitedNations, I've visited - davidfranks.blogspot.com/p/nations-iv...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "#Tax" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 91 OF 230
Poem 91 of 230: TAX The flouting statement is rife - How death and taxes are The two certainties of life. And both, to be sure, d...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "#Tax" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity My #poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, on art & fiction, "The Bottles on the Wall" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/04/walk...
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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December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
#WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity My #poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, on art & fiction, "The Bottles on the Wall" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/04/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #song, with #photos attached, "Lancashire Sung Simply" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/11/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 136 OF 230
part three (cont.) WALKABOUT LANCASHIRE (conclusions) Poem 136 of 230: LANCASHIRE SUNG SIMPLY (TUNE - IN THE KEY OF F MAJOR: D2 A2...
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December 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #song, with #photos attached, "Lancashire Sung Simply" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/11/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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December 16, 2025 at 4:30 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...
Re #Trump v #BBC, as imperialism is evil, the former should NOT wish to annex #Canada , & the latter should be dissolved into an English Broadcasting Corporation, a Welsh B.C. & a Scottish B.C. My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "England's T.V." walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/walk...
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 - ...
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December 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Re #Trump v #BBC, as imperialism is evil, the former should NOT wish to annex #Canada , & the latter should be dissolved into an English Broadcasting Corporation, a Welsh B.C. & a Scottish B.C. My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "England's T.V." walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/walk...
#BondiBeachTerrorAttack It's our world/our #UnitedNations that should be multicultural NOT each nation, & the U.N. should make all economic/CAPITALIST #immigration illegal & help genuine asylum seekers to their NEAREST safe nation; my #poem on nationalism 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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December 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#BondiBeachTerrorAttack It's our world/our #UnitedNations that should be multicultural NOT each nation, & the U.N. should make all economic/CAPITALIST #immigration illegal & help genuine asylum seekers to their NEAREST safe nation; my #poem on nationalism walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/04/walk...
Re #Railway200, my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with plenty of #photos, on, by #train, "Liverpool" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 64 OF 230
Poem 64 of 230: LIVERPOOL Caught a train, along a long-used line, From Manchester to Liverpool. On that day, the weather was fine:...
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December 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Re #Railway200, my WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with plenty of #photos, on, by #train, "Liverpool" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/walk...
My #poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, on trips, many years ago, from "#Adelaide to #Sydney" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/10/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...
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December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My #poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, on trips, many years ago, from "#Adelaide to #Sydney" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/10/walk...
#Diversity? #BondiBeachTerrorAttack If the Australian govt. are for a 2-state solution (3 states would respect Christians, also), why so many Muslims & Jews being allowed into Australia - outnumbering Aborigines? My WalkaboutsVerse #poem 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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December 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
#Diversity? #BondiBeachTerrorAttack If the Australian govt. are for a 2-state solution (3 states would respect Christians, also), why so many Muslims & Jews being allowed into Australia - outnumbering Aborigines? My WalkaboutsVerse #poem on "Land Rights" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/05/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Proud #Preston" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 122 OF 230
Poem 122 of 230: PROUD PRESTON - AUTUMN 2000 Heavy autumnal rain Had surged the Ribble’s flow When I walked to and fro The ...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, with #photos, on "Proud #Preston" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/12/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, on free-verse, "Audience Lost" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/10/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 148 OF 230
Poem 148 of 230: AUDIENCE LOST I returned, again, To what they pen - The "free-verse poets": Deep prose in sets… I could read...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse #poem, on free-verse, "Audience Lost" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/10/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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December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
#PGATour #DPworldtour #livgolf My WalkaboutsVerse #golf #poetry, with #photography, on "Collecting the Cards" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
To be annexed by #France with #UnitedNations support? My WalkaboutsVerse #poetry 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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December 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
To be annexed by #France with #UnitedNations support? My WalkaboutsVerse #poetry on "#Monaco & its Railway Loo": walkaboutsverse.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/walk...
#BondiBeach #BondiAttack Since "Repatriating - Australia to England" in 1997 (my #poem, with #photos, linked below), both nations have had record amounts of #immigration AND, sadly, record amounts of #terrorism, largely due to foolish politicians walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/02/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...
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December 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#BondiBeach #BondiAttack Since "Repatriating - Australia to England" in 1997 (my #poem, with #photos, linked below), both nations have had record amounts of #immigration AND, sadly, record amounts of #terrorism, largely due to foolish politicians walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/02/walk...
My WalkaboutsVerse song, on Googles BlogSpot, with #photography, "Tees to Tyne - first impressions" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/08/walk...
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 ...
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December 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
My WalkaboutsVerse song, on Googles BlogSpot, with #photography, "Tees to Tyne - first impressions" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2010/08/walk...
#RedZone The modern #PremierLeague & #NFL have, at least, one thing in common - they need regulating towards more LOCALS in more MEANINGFUL competition; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem "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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December 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
#RedZone The modern #PremierLeague & #NFL have, at least, one thing in common - they need regulating towards more LOCALS in more MEANINGFUL competition; my WalkaboutsVerse #poem "Reregulate" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/walk...
Recently returned to Kiruna, in the midnight-sun north of Sweden, to add some #photos to my fun, but true, #poem "Night or Day?!" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk...
WALKABOUTSVERSE 14 OF 230
Poem 14 of 230: NIGHT OR DAY?! In the far north of Sweden (A "Land of the Midnight Sun”), A strange thing chanced upon me - An...
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December 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Recently returned to Kiruna, in the midnight-sun north of Sweden, to add some #photos to my fun, but true, #poem "Night or Day?!" walkaboutsverse.blogspot.com/2011/11/walk...