Category Archives: Poems (Some Silly)

To Babylon…

Posted on December 12, 2020 by crispina kemp

How many miles to Babylon? Three score miles and ten Can I get there by candlelight? Yes, you can get there by candlelight You can get there and back again [Old English Nursery Rhyme] By Candle Light, another title achieved … Continue reading →

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Why can we never agree?

Posted on December 7, 2020 by crispina kemp

I said poetic. He said pathetic. I said realistic. He allowed artistic. I said quizzical. He said risible. I said erotic. He laughed and said quixotic. 26 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Quixotic

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CCC108: Oh Where Has He Gone

Posted on December 3, 2020 by crispina kemp

Oh where, oh where, has my master gone? Oh where, oh where, can he be? He threw me a ball I went to fetch And when I returned He’d left without me. Oh where, tell me where, can he be?

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O Squire of the Shire

Posted on November 30, 2020 by crispina kemp

O Squire of the Shire You are a liar To set hearts afire With words like a choir You entangle roses in briar sweet You halt and hamper with bemired feet You wrap around with barb-some wire You besmirch, you … Continue reading →

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A Different Story

Posted on November 23, 2020 by crispina kemp

To travel back in time To change what has been done To alter the course of history Make it tell a different story But who dares foretell the events that follow upon that alteration? Would that story be better? Woe, … Continue reading →

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To Argue the Toss

Posted on November 16, 2020 by crispina kemp

                Wrangle… to entangle your tongue with a persistent antagonist To mangle angry words with an opportunist Or cling to the rocks, ignoring the knocks while you argue the toss with the surf-surging … Continue reading →

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I’m Glad He’s Gone

Posted on November 9, 2020 by crispina kemp

I bequeath to you my best left shoe These past ten years I’ve had no use of it What use when I’ve no foot to put in it? When your father pushed me over the railings at the zoo He … Continue reading →

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Oh, Not Again

Posted on November 1, 2020 by crispina kemp

Oh, there she goes again Making like she’s not a big pain Limping like she’s bloody well lame “What’s the matter, lovey, can’t you keep up?” “You know I’m not well.” Yea, yea, yea, now whirl your arms and hug … Continue reading →

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Pride and Prejudice

Posted on October 30, 2020 by crispina kemp

Answer me, please What did I do? For this isn’t like what I know of you I admit I texted you to take a hike In words more abusive than you’d like But confused, what did this long silence mean? … Continue reading →

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This Slice of Light

Posted on October 26, 2020 by crispina kemp

Dark, my bed beneath the world Dark But wait What glimmering? What minor lifting of gloom? It slithers, this slither of light This slice that intrudes, that doesn’t belong. But whence it comes, this fabulous crescent? Has it fallen from … Continue reading →

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