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Wow! Good news! For the second time in my life, I’ve had a poem accepted for publication. Well, four actually.
Whispers and Echoes, an online journal celebrating short writing and poems, have accepted the four poems I submitted at the beginning of June. These will go out over the next few weeks; the first TODAY!!!
I discarded riches, discarded clothes
Discarded flesh from off my bones …
See Whispers and Echoes for the full poem
For Sophia was written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt #103 *Vulnerable* and posted on crimsonprose 30th April 2019
Whispers and Echoes is chiefly edited by Sammi Cox, well-known and loved for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompts where she punishes us with impossible targets, and thus pushes us through the gates of inspiration.
Whispers and Echoes publish flash-fiction of up to 100 words, and poems up to 10 lines (excluding blanks); see here to submit.
Earlier issues of Whispers and Echoes can be seen on the Dreaming Spirit website.
BTW, that first poem I had accepted? It was in a publication called Motorcycle Mechanics. Yea, well, a 15-year-old girl, and such a macho magazine, my unsolicited poem was bound to be published (we were just into the Women’s Lib years)
crispina kemp 
Congrats!
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I thank you, Joanne. It just goes to show, it’s worth submitting.
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How wonderful! I want to know when the publication is live so I can read them all.
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Follow the links on my post. For Sophia, goes direct to my poem (it’s the first one of the new edition). Previous editions are on the Dreaming Spirit website link
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Aha!!
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Yay. So happy for you.
Congrats 🎊🎊🎊
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I thank you.
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Congratulations Crispin 🙂
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I thank youi.
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You’re welcome Crispina! So well deserved! 🙂
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Smiles upon smiles
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💜😊
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Well done! And the poem is great!
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I thank you, Lauren.
The other side of me. But there are loads I couldn’t submit: too long.
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It’s my kind of poetry. Short.
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Yea, well, even my long isn’t long. As I said in the post, it was written in response to one of Sammi’s Prompts. Not only does she set the word to be included (Vulnerable, in this case) but also the exact wordcount. For me, that is a challenge. I don’t need you to tell you how verbose I can be!
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Woah! 😮😃😃 Absolutely wonderful news, Crispina!! Congratulations!🥳🥳🥳🥳 Your work is amazing and I love it.
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I thank you. All the good things said, yet I just do what I do.
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CONGRATS CRISPINA!!!!!! 😀 ❤
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I thank you. You’re all so kind. 🙂
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Woot! Fantabulous, Crispina! And I particularly loved this poem so I understand it being accepted.
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I thank you, Dale. I submitted four (all accepted, the rest to follow) With all those I picked I bore in mind the words *Whispers and Echoes*, and *Dreaming Spirit*, and thus didn’t submit my silly stuff.
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Huzzah and Hurrah!
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I thank you. It was a pleasant surprise.
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It’s such a beautiful poem, Crispina, and I’m so pleased you submitted it. It’s set the standard for all that follows 🙂
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I thank you, Sammi. I’m knocked out by how many remarks. And to think, it’s to set the standard. That poem was written from a deeper part of me than my heart or soul.
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“That poem was written from a deeper part of me than my heart or soul.” – Now you’re turning your comments into beautiful poetry! Effortless!
And all the praise you’ve received for the poem is muchly deserved 🙂
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It still stuns me to silence.
Why are we taught how to cope with failure and complaints and stuff, but not how to handle praise and compliments? Face to face, I’ll bow my head, but online …? All I can do is say thank you.
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Congratulations, how wonderful! And the poem is lovely. I especially appreciate the rhythm – -it’s a poem that begs to be read aloud.
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Ithank you, Joy. Three more to come.
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Huge congrats, Crispina! Though I’m astonished this is your first publication since school – have you been hiding your talent for poetry under a bushel? Hopefully, the first of many. Well done
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Um, well, come to think of it., (in my last job) the CEO nabbed my poem when we moved into new premises, about monks and priories. It was used on promotional material. We moved into a priory. I loved that office; I hated that job.
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That must have been satifying, having your poem used in the promotional material – even if you hated the job! Would love to work in a priory. Perhaps that’s why one of my characters in my WIP lives in the remnants of a monastery – complete with crypt that he uses as a wine cellar!
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As a history not it was a dream. The first build of the priory dated to the same years as Norwich Cathedral (late C11th) being built by the same person, with the same stone, imported ftrom Caens. And my office overlooked the main hall, the oldest part.
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That must have been amazing. What a wonderful place to spend some time. Shame about the job, though
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Swings and roundabouts. It was during the time I had ME, but still mild enough to work.
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Shame you couldn’t have the fabulous setting and a nice work environment too 🙂
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It was an experience … and I survived it.
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Congrats! Well-deserved. 🙂
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Heck, I’ve just found you consigned to the Spam folder. Those Askimet people are a little over-enthusiastic at times. Yes, I know, it’s not real folks.
Anyway, I thank you. 🙂
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Congratulations!
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Thank you 🙂
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