Who But a Human

Posted on March 9, 2020 by crispina kemp

image by Fernando Zhiminaicela on pixabay

Perplexed, you say, pondering
And I wonder what perplexities you mull upon now
What confusion found though the evidence was clearly presented
What contradictions cleverly wrought – in your opinion – to baffle and snaffle you
What oxymorons, what tautologies, upset your tight-kept schedule
Must you ever remain defined by that line, that whip they wielded in ages past that disallowed a toe’s transgression
Now I see you lost in cogitation
Beyond any thinker’s recognition
A person with brain, not a machine’s premonition
Truly, for who but a human can be perplexed?

90 words Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Perplex

 

 

 

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Sunday Fungi: A Red-belted Hoof

Posted on March 8, 2020 by crispina kemp

Not the most common form of a Hoof Fungus (aka Tinder Fungus), it caught my eye against the green moss

Red-belted Bracket: 3 March 2020

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A Cloudy Backdrop

Posted on March 7, 2020 by crispina kemp

It seems to me those clouds echo the shapes of the trees. Or is it the trees that echo the clouds?

3rd March 2020

Treetops, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

 

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Interview with Crispina Kemp, author of The Spinner’s Game – Part 1 — Sammi Cox

Posted on March 6, 2020 by crispina kemp

Reblogged from Sammi’s site… Yay! Thanks Sammi

You may have seen the interview with Crispina Kemp I shared a few weeks ago from my book review blog, Sammi Loves Books. Now I get to share with you an epic three-part interview with Crispina, as we talk about her soon-to-be released five book historical fantasy series, The Spinner’s Game. The first part of […]

via Interview with Crispina Kemp, author of The Spinner’s Game – Part 1 — Sammi Cox

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CCC#69: He Who Made Me

Posted on March 5, 2020 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #69

He who made me did not want me
Left me with the empty pots
He who made me didn’t love me
Left me unpainted, here, forgot
He who cast a mould to form me
Upped his roots and departed
He who made me in his image
Made me uncaring and stone-hearted.

These woeful-looking garden gnomes were left behind by a previous occupier, and I just don’t have the heart to trash them.

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #69

Posted on March 4, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC#69

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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Observations

Posted on March 2, 2020 by crispina kemp

image by Manfred Richter on pixabay

Hand-axes, our first achievement
While microliths marked the meso age
Pottery, coiled and burnished, served neo farmers
But copper and tin alloyed ushered in our worst epoch

27 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Epoch

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Sunday Fungi: Breaking Free

Posted on March 1, 2020 by crispina kemp

Photo: 8th Oct 2019

Oh, the poor birch tree, host to so many fungi. But at least this one has waited for the birch to fall. It’s species? I cannot tell with certainty, but undoubtedly a wood-eater.

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A Pointless Port

Posted on February 29, 2020 by crispina kemp

At harbour’s mouth (the Pool): 21st Feb 2020

The port of Great Yarmouth isn’t as busy as it was 100 years back, or even 50 years), unable to take the container ships and its fishing industry lost. Now its main business is the support and supply of North Sea Rigs. Sad facts echoed in this forlorn vista.

Point of View, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

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On With the New

Posted on February 27, 2020 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #68: Aug 2018

Breydon New Bridge — seen above — was built in 1983.

I remember it well; it was the year I moved to Great Yarmouth…

… from Costessey, with its old bridge — seen below

Costessey Mill: March 2018

 

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