Ken Boddie

5 years ago · 2 min. reading time · ~10 ·

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Walk, Walk, Walk

Walk, Walk, Walk

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We drove down to our regular morning constitutional spot on the bay this morning, on the north side of Victoria Point, and just a few clicks down the road from home.  The sun was rising in a flawlessly clear sky with no wind, and the water was as smooth as our little baby grandson's bottom, as we got out of the car.  We strolled across the short stretch of grass to the esplanade, which follows the shoreline and borders a succession of sandy beach coves, punctuated by muddy protrusions of mangroves and the odd Moreton Bay fig, and sheltered by stands of both native eucalypts and imported trees such as Norfolk pines and a variety of exotic palms. And then we got into our rhythm ..... 

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The sky looks so blue, 

The sea's azure too, 

We're going for a walk, walk, walk.

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It's nearly high tide, 

As we hit our stride, 

There's no need to talk, talk, talk.

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The bay looks like glass, 

The view is first class, 

It's true, please don't mock, mock, mock,

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It's first light of day, 

So smell that bouquet, 

Don't look at the clock, clock, clock.

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Some folks pass our way, 

And we say g'day, 

They're walking their dog, dog, dog.

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Look out for that puddle, 

With mud in the middle, 

Your shoes’ll get clogged, clogged, clogged. 

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Ding ding goes a bell, 

A warning to tell, 

As bikes ride on by, by, by.

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Such colours we see, 

As we pass a tree, 

And lorikeets fly, fly, fly. 

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We smile, just can't fail, 

When Willie Wagtail, 

Comes hopping along, long, long.

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Look seaward anew, 

There goes a canoe, 

Being paddled so strong, strong, strong.

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We slow down the pace, 

Then stop at a place, 

Where we can admire the view.

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We whip out our phones, 

And ‘tween merry groans, 

We take happy snaps, one or two. 

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Too soon we've returned to the spot where we started, 

We climb in the car, and then we've departed, 

Goodbye to the shore and the sea and the sky, 

We'll sure come again, very soon, by and by.  

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When we return it'll still be quite sunny 

No need for joking now, it isn't funny, 

You can bet Queenslanders often will text, 

Ahhhhh, Queensland .....❤️❤️❤️

Beautiful one day, perfect the next!


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The author of the above, Ken Boddie, besides being a sometime poet and occasional writer, is an enthusiastic photographer, rarely leisure-travelling without his Canon, and loves to interact with other like-minded people with diverse interests.

Ken's three day work week (part time commitment) as a consulting engineer allows him to follow his photography interests, and to plan trips to an ever increasing list of countries and places of scenic beauty and cultural diversity.

 



   

Comments

Louise Smith

5 years ago #32

Ken Boddie This is marvelous Ken - to get a response from Paul - someone who writes exquisite travel buzzes

Louise Smith

5 years ago #31

#3
So Dear Paul you are a "hidden treasure" Are you beautiful one day - perfect the next ?

Louise Smith

5 years ago #30

#31
WOW ! 6 degrees ..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMEdbG7G2tM#action=share

Louise Smith

5 years ago #29

#3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMEdbG7G2tM#action=share & this too ?

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #28

#30
Hey, Louise, did you read #3 from Paul Walters?

Louise Smith

5 years ago #27

Great photos from a great photographer ! Capturing the essence effortlessly You can bet Queenslanders often will text, Ahhhhh, Queensland .....❤️❤️❤️ Beautiful one day, perfect the next!

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #26

#28
And your new portrait’s a happy pic to see, see, see. 👍

🐝 Fatima G. Williams

5 years ago #25

Ken Boddie The sea is a happy place to be be be :) Beautiful pictures

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #24

#26
Didn't realise today was Sun-day, Claire. 😂 Incidentally, the kangaroos here also like sunny days, because on rainy days their joeys have to play inside. 🤣

Lada 🏡 Prkic

5 years ago #23

Ken, I put my monocle to see what you meant. :) It's easy to recognize rhythm and meter in poetry written in the native language, but I'm completely lost in unstressed syllables and stressed syllables in English. 😵 So I would like to be excused from analyzing metrical feet and am going to enjoy your poem in the waltz rhythm. 🤗 😂

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #22

#23
I hadn't, of course, Lada \ud83c\udfe1 Prkic, read your excellent intro and watched your video link of the hypnotic multiple penduli when I wrote this. I may have ended up with a rather more complex (and probably unreadable) concoction of poetic meter, had I attempted to emulate these magical swinging dance movements. 🤪 I was concentrating more on the 2/4 and 4/4 'march time' in music, rather than the 3/4 time of the waltz. If you look at the complete lines of each of the initial verses, rather than just the word repetition, you'll see what I mean. 🧐 Hence, the first several three line verses have two successive lines of iambic dimeter (2/4 time equivalent), followed by the third line of iambic tetrameter (4/4 time equivalent). I then threw in a couple of verses with the final lines shortened to iambic trimeter, to subliminally slow down the reader, before going on to build up the end with two final stanzas of four line march time tetrameter (ignoring the penultimate line of the poem, thrown in almost in parenthesis, to set up the boast). 🤗

Lada 🏡 Prkic

5 years ago #21

#21
Thanks for explaining. I've heard the rhythm one-two-three, one-two-three, ... like dancing the waltz. Or like walking in sync as coupled pendulums. :-)

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #20

#20
So glad you don’t think it’s bidet by the sea, Pascal Derrien. 😂

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #19

#19
Many thanks, Lada \ud83c\udfe1 Prkic. I’m sure with your analytical mind you’ll have picked up that the initial rythm and repetition are to introduce and maintain the march. The two later breaks in rythm then slow the reader down for the final boast. Glad you enjoyed this.

Pascal Derrien

5 years ago #18

A constitutional deluxe me thinks 🤔 Boddie by the sea Body by the see 😜

Lada 🏡 Prkic

5 years ago #17

These rhymes are something different from usual, but everything you write I like, like, like.

Lada 🏡 Prkic

5 years ago #16

It's something different than your usual rhythm, but everything you write I like, like, like.:-)

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #15

#15
Thanks, Franci. With nature at her best it would be hard not to.

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #14

#14
Debasish ..... Thanks for reading, Thanks for sharing, And thanks for the thanks, thanks, thanks.

Debasish Majumder

5 years ago #13

Beautiful buzz Ken Boddie! enjoyed read and shared. thank you for the buzz.

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #12

#11
It depends where you keep your banana, John. 😂

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #11

#10
Ah but, Ian Weinberg ..... Get too close to a rose, You’ll get thorns up your nose. 🤭

John Rylance

5 years ago #10

#9
Banana Bender sounds like a extremely painful torture. The thought of it brings tears to my eyes.

Ian Weinberg

5 years ago #9

Ah Ken Boddie That's a sprightly piece of inspiration for the day. The best that I can offer up here in the highveld, miles away from ocean delicacies, is to remember to smell the roses.

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #8

#8
if Queen Vic hadn’t accepted Lytton’s suggestion back in 1859, Gert, it might have been Saxonland. But these days our second name is the Sunshine State, although there are those who would use Banana Bender Land. 🤔

Gert Scholtz

5 years ago #7

#7
Ken Boddie Perhaps they will hire us all once you and I get the spelling of Queensland correct:)

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #6

#6
Haha, Gert. These days the Queenland state government couldn’t afford either of us, let alone both of us. 🤣

Gert Scholtz

5 years ago #5

Ken Boddie must join up for the next Quuensland campaign!

Gert Scholtz

5 years ago #4

Ken Boddie definitely need to join up for the next Queensland campaign.

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #3

#3
I knew you were famous, Pak Paul. But I didn’t know you were infamous. I hope you take great delight in being responsible for the painful groans from countless numbers of New South Welshmen and women, everytime a Queenslander recites that proud boast. 🤣😂🤣

Paul Walters

5 years ago #2

Ken Boddie . Nice one. Now years ago when I was an advertising 'slut' we had the Queensland Tourism account. "write us a headline in no more than 7 words " was the brief. " beautiful one day, perfect the next ' was what we came back with !!

Ken Boddie

5 years ago #1

#1
haha. Good afternoon (Saturday). 🤗

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