Category Archives: Poems (Some Silly)

Never a Song

Posted on May 6, 2021 by crispina kemp

Drifting alongI’ve lost my songI fell from a birdNow I’ll never be heardWhere are I going?Where does the stream take me?To new life, to death?To a reconnection?No, my bird is goneNow never no song

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On Beltane Eve

Posted on May 1, 2021 by crispina kemp

Wayward! Wayward? That’s what they said.Wayward, because I wouldn’t follow where they led.Wayward, because I took a different route.Wayward, as if I were a woodland brute.Wayward, because I walked a different way.Wayward! And now I wait for break of dayWhen … Continue reading →

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This Man of Mine

Posted on April 19, 2021 by crispina kemp

This man, what can I say?Colliding on the internetsuch is the common waysent me pics.Uncanny likeness:Man from UncleSapphire and Steel.Can this be real?But I’ve no doubtA Scotsman’s genes will out 39 words for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Uncanny

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Misery

Posted on April 15, 2021 by crispina kemp

Mercy was her nameTo the door she cameA nurse, she wore a maskThe look she gave me, I was scared to askIn truth, I didn’t dareDoes Stephen King still live here?

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Behind Enemy Lines

Posted on April 12, 2021 by crispina kemp

Who’d be the youngest in the brigade?I swear it isn’t fairDo this, do thatGroom the horsesFetch the waterAnd never mind the dangerOff you go to forage.————————No, I’m not a deserterI’m foraging food and waterWas I to know these are enemy … Continue reading →

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CCC126: Primmy Primrose

Posted on April 8, 2021 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge Primmy Primrose, prim and properWon’t look up till a new Spring calls herCalls with balmy sun and melting snowWith whispered winds that gently blowNo torn leaves and tattered petalsFor Primmy Primrose is too precious

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Decidedly Sanguine

Posted on April 5, 2021 by crispina kemp

It is, my dear, quite absurdThe uttermost garbage I’ve ever heardWhy, to think they call the penguin a birdAnd more, they say, it’s a distant childOf T.Rex’s cousin, in the wildImagine a petition filedFor paternity payment supportImagine the court reportHa! … Continue reading →

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CCC125: Catch As Catch Can

Posted on April 1, 2021 by crispina kemp

“Come share a drink with me,” said he. “I don’t mind if I do,” said me, And followed him where he led me. “Where go we?” said I. “To a secret place, where no one might spy.” I wondered why. … Continue reading →

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By Winds A’swirl

Posted on March 29, 2021 by crispina kemp

Yonder is where I want to beYonder where you went from meYonder whence you call to meYonder beyond what I can seeYonder lies another worldYonder where my heart is furledYonder where, by winds aswirl,My love was hurled. 44 words written … Continue reading →

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You are my Sun

Posted on March 22, 2021 by crispina kemp

You are my sun You keep my warm You light my life When day is done You carry me down To enfold me In your netherworld of dreams Yet, my love, you are so hot I’ll burn if at a … Continue reading →

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