CCC237: Hoop-la

Posted on May 25, 2023 by crispina kemp

Hoop-la
Tyre off a car
Spinning in air
Landing far.

Bend in road
Misbalanced load
I should have read
Highway code.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #237

Posted on May 24, 2023 by crispina kemp

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 cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory) by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

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Tuesday Treats: Cor, Look at those Pretties!

Posted on May 23, 2023 by crispina kemp

The “pretties” from our walk of 26th April…

Woodland cherries

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And currently ubiquitous bluebells

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Hedgerow blossoms

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Roadside flowers… some big, some small

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And of course, the gorse

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Hope they brought a smile to your eyes.

Now, I wonder what I have for you next week?

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Sunday Picture Post: Woods, Lakes and Lanes

Posted on May 21, 2023 by crispina kemp

26th April, seems so long ago. A good day, weather-wise. Out early, we’re walking from outskirts of town to the next village along via woods, lakes and lanes. And everywhere, the flowers are glorious (see Tuesday Treats)

As we enter the woods we think we’ve lucked out. Too late for bluebells?

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Of course not!

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We take loads more photos than this but by now you must have seen enough of them. We leave the woods and walk the lanes (a different route to our usual)

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You notice the slight hill? We’re not in Norfolk any more, but south of the border in Suffolk where mills seen in the distance once ground grain, not pumped water

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We leave the lane and head to the lake

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The lake, glimpsed between trees and edged with reed and gorse

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A footbridge enables a crossing…and a closer look

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No duck nor geese, just a moorhen that quickly hides from us

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And back to the lanes to head to the village for the next bus home

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Just in time, the weather is changing

Hope you enjoyed. More next week

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Mother Goose

Posted on May 20, 2023 by crispina kemp

17th May 2023

Look Over There! one of the titles from Maria Antonia’s #2023picofthe week

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Professor Papaver

Posted on May 20, 2023 by crispina kemp

28th May 2022

Professor Papaver said, “In general
The seeds of annuals are plentiful.”
We agreed, in principle
It is a theory observable
Actual and factual
Not simply conjectural.
Objections, though, were several,
This, his latest paper
The seeds of plants classified as ephemeral
being seminal

43 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Ephemeral

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Ode to Hope

Posted on May 19, 2023 by crispina kemp

Once in a while inspiration tells me to write a poem. Here’s this year’s. It could apply to many things in this life. How about advertising?

 

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CCC236: Aced

Posted on May 18, 2023 by crispina kemp

She had travelled much
She had travelled far
Had seen many trees
Had collected their seeds
But for her, this Acer aced them all
Back home she sowed its seed
Tended it, nurtured it
Yet barely grown to a sapling
When disease deceased her
Her kin planted the Acer
Beside her
For all time Aced

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #236

Posted on May 17, 2023 by crispina kemp

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 cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory) by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN

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Tuesday Treats: More of Those Little Things

Posted on May 16, 2023 by crispina kemp

Flowers from our walk 19th April 2023. Enjoy

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Cherries, of course…and Ransoms (wild garlic)

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Columbine… though possibly a garden escapee

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And presenting the prettiest picture: Bluebells, Celandines and Wood Anemones

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Broom, this was unexpected [Cytisus]

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And…

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If they’re fine-stemmed…

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If they’ve drooping heads…

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If the bells are narrow and tend towards purply-blue…

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We can be sure these are our native flowers.

That’s all for now folks. Hope you enjoyed.

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