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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #019

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice! And here there are (not quite the variety this week … Continue reading

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CCC018: A Viking For To Go

He selected his toughest gear Packed into his chest, some to wear His chest upon his shoulder slung Then down that hillside to the staithe he run The ship was waiting Slipping ropes Soon departing When with a nimble-footed leap … Continue reading

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #018

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice! And here there are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading

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CCC017: A Most Mournful Tune

I wandered lonely through the dunes With memories of my lost true love Threading and twining And bringing me down Until a shell I found Pretty, teasing my fingers Tempting me to lift, to listen and linger And there it … Continue reading

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #017

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice! And here there are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading

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On a Winter’s Morn

Jack Frost And his wife Dancing across our meadows and our lanes Freezing up the puddles Decorating brimming drains Challenged the Frost Giants to a fight The Frost Giants breathed and huffed and sighed The world turned white Just look … Continue reading

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #016

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice! And here there are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading

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First Lady Britannia

Who’s that atop that column? That, my friend, is Britannia, the First Lady of this land. What, like a president’s wife…? Like a goddess. She old, then? She found her name in the first century BCE; given her by the … Continue reading

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #015

Every Wednesday I’ll post FOUR photos (if you want to get a head start you’ll find them marked in that week’s Sunday Picture Post and Tuesday Treats). Lots of choice! And here there are: You respond with something CREATIVE. Perhaps … Continue reading

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CCC014: Home

So happy was I After all these years to be going home Yet I wasn’t sure I’d taken the right turning Nothing familiar in my surroundings And the farther I walked The more I baulked Certain now I’d lost my way … Continue reading

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