Monthly Archives: June 2020

This Kiss

Posted on June 30, 2020 by crispina kemp

Mindless of the pressing chores The waiting floors, the empty stores She strolled along a dream-cast road And watched a leather-sided toad. With a tug at her dirty work-stained frock She sat beside him on a river rock. He looked … Continue reading →

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Casper

Posted on June 29, 2020 by crispina kemp

The move was welcome, pulling her out of the depths of hell. And the new place old, built on the ruins of a dissolved priory, was perfect for her. Absolutely right. Until the first night. A presence in the room, … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Back to the Green Ways

Posted on June 28, 2020 by crispina kemp

Oh Yay! I can travel by bus again. And so… out to Acle and a walk to Burlingham Woods, almost entirely by green lanes and farmland White campion was everywhere. But could only take pics where it was in the … Continue reading →

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Woodland Lights

Posted on June 27, 2020 by crispina kemp

Finally allowed on the buses, got out of town for a ‘countryside’ walk, down the green lanes to the woods… Shadows, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

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The Ocean Tide

Posted on June 26, 2020 by crispina kemp

My love is like the ocean tide Sweeping in, knocking and toppling all in his way To lap at the highest reach which is my heart. But no sooner here than he turns again And with an awful tug he … Continue reading →

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CCC85: A Coded Message

Posted on June 25, 2020 by crispina kemp

So long he’d been gone I thought him never to return And if he did, surely my father would tell him to go Send him away before I ever knew I had to devise some means A coded message A … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #85

Posted on June 24, 2020 by crispina kemp

Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN Here’s how it works: Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.) You respond with something CREATIVE Here are some suggestions: An answering photo A … Continue reading →

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Our Self-Induced Illusions

Posted on June 23, 2020 by crispina kemp

I might have taken to penning romance, but here’s my answer to those who seek to see a transformation What lies delight us How eager to believe our self-induced illusions That here is love and here is truth And here … Continue reading →

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A Free Spirit, Me

Posted on June 22, 2020 by crispina kemp

A free spirit he called me That’s what I am Then complained when I gallivanted Out of season, out of time and mind A free spirit, he said me But I cut him to the quick When my gallivanting Stole … Continue reading →

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Sunday Picture Post: Out of Town

Posted on June 21, 2020 by crispina kemp

Still confined to places reached by foot… yet the sun is bringing out the flowers and the bees… A tiny, tiny flower, often lost to sight by bigger flowers overhanging Meadow Brown butterfly where it ought to be… in a … Continue reading →

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