Author Archives: crispina kemp

About crispina kemp

Spinner of Asaric and Mythic tales

The Tide is High

Posted on July 4, 2020

Early morning, Breydon Water, when the tide is high, becomes a place of calm All is Calm, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

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CCC86: Mr Ed

Posted on July 2, 2020

“Why have you shut the stable door?” “Why? To shut him up, of course. All day long, talk, talk, talk. All right when he was younger, when he was earning a crust. But now Mr Ed’s old… I couldn’t take … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #86

Posted on July 1, 2020

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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This Kiss

Posted on June 30, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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