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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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The Turn of the Year

Posted on June 21, 2020 by crispina kemp

Come join our hands Come touch the sky Come dance the dance And thread the stones Rejoice this day The sun stands high For on the morrow she cannot stay Her southern lover draws her away

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Early Morning in Town

Posted on June 20, 2020 by crispina kemp

Yesterday, took the small camera shopping with me. In its day, this was a road a hundred pubs. Now there are only two. The road runs alongside the town hall. Down the Road, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

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If I Open the Door

Posted on June 19, 2020 by crispina kemp

Love called for me today I ducked my head Said go away I do not want To feel these things The doubts, the fears That love will bring I had built a wall Had hemmed me in And learned to … Continue reading →

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CCC84: His Old Sweetheart

Posted on June 18, 2020 by crispina kemp

Grandpa used to say he’d pulled the letters out of a bag to name his boat. And we believed him. Until we were clearing his things from his boat after he died, ready to sell the old berth, and found … Continue reading →

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #84

Posted on June 17, 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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Lap Up That Pain

Posted on June 16, 2020 by crispina kemp

Lap up that pain That feeling mightn’t come again You might find numbness follows Fear inures you to another Armour, thickened skin, self-protection Grown and honed to impenetrable perfection Lap up that pain You might not ever feel again To … Continue reading →

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