Soaring in the Wide Blue

Posted on August 7, 2021 by crispina kemp

2nd Aug 2021

This buzzard that circled and soared above us certainly qualifies for In The Air, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia.

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A Plan Too Clever

Posted on August 7, 2021 by crispina kemp

from pixabay

I ought to be miffed
I ought to be tossed
I ought to be angry, all at a loss
Cos what had he done?
He’d sneaked a peep at my final plan
Of which he’d never been much of a fan
I thought it smart
He stressed what it lacked
But his words mean nought
My plan’s too clever
For him to thwart

63 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Thwart

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CCC143: Suzie Trotter

Posted on August 5, 2021 by crispina kemp

Suzie Trotter trotted out
She told her friends “to have a snout”
Gotta be something beyond this wall
This pokey city couldn’t be all
She trotted fast to be away
To be caught would ruin her day
And lo!
And see!
A golden field beyond Pig City

*Pig City*: 29 July 2021

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Crimson’s Creative Post #143

Posted on August 4, 2021 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 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: Flowers

Posted on August 3, 2021 by crispina kemp

Flowers from our walk of 19th July. Hot arable land.

Bladder Campion: 19th July 2021

Poppies: 19th July 2021

Hedge Bindweed: 19th July 2021

Grasses on Stubs Green Common: 19th July 2021

Flowers… and butterflies: 19th July 2021

Wheat: 19th July 2021

Field Bindweed: 19th July 2021

Scabious & bee: 19th July 2021

Poppies & Mayweed, a natural combination: 19th July 2021

That’s all for now folks. Hope you enjoyed

 

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Midnight at the Oasis

Posted on August 2, 2021 by crispina kemp

It wasn’t yet that magical hour
The hour that they’d agreed to meet
Stars blinked in and out of existence
The moon swelled to full and cut to half
She waited in hot anticipation
For tonight’s… midnight at the oasis.

40 words written for Sammi Weekend’s Writing Prompt: Oasis

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Sunday Picture Post: A Half-Day Jaunt

Posted on August 1, 2021 by crispina kemp

19th July and it’s almost midday before we start our walk from Loddon via Stubs Green and Loddon Ingloss and back to Loddon. And it is hot! The land flat, and arable.

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19th July 2021

How pleased we are to find a shady lane… almost returned to Loddon and the bus

19th July 2021

19th July 2021

Arable land yields fewer flowers. I’ll show you those on Tuesday

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St John

Posted on July 31, 2021 by crispina kemp

29 July 2021

Mellow Yellow, another title achieved from the list provided for #2021picoftheweek provided by Maria Antonia.

St John’s Wort is a herbal treatment for the alleviation of anxiety and depression.

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CCC142: Rooted

Posted on July 29, 2021 by crispina kemp

The tree didn’t want to be there
Alone in that field
No kindred in view
No one to chat with
But there the tree was
Roots dug in deep
And there those roots
That tree would keep

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #142

Posted on July 28, 2021 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 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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