Category Archives: Poems (Some Silly)

Whisper it Loudly

Posted on June 14, 2019 by crispina kemp

Wow! Good news! For the second time in my life, I’ve had a poem accepted for publication. Well, four actually. Whispers and Echoes, an online journal celebrating short writing and poems, have accepted the four poems I submitted at the … Continue reading →

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CCC#31: Blast me boy …

Posted on June 13, 2019 by crispina kemp

I made a boat It stayed afloat I sailed it up by Cromer way But how to moor it, wondered I When there isn’t a jetty anyplace nigh I hauled it up that long pebbly beach But, blast me boy, … Continue reading →

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Camelot

Posted on June 11, 2019 by crispina kemp

I dream, I dream of Camelot Of summers when I had your love Of days when with my knights I jested Of nights when in my arms you rested I dream, I dream of Camelot And of the lady of … Continue reading →

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CCC#30: A Ramblers Tale

Posted on June 6, 2019 by crispina kemp

Now settle down and listen well, for a rambler’s tale I here do tell: I walked, you see … Through fens and fields in various states, over broken stiles and five-bar gates; I took a break upon a bank (shoes … Continue reading →

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This Eden in the East

Posted on June 3, 2019 by crispina kemp

Far out to sea beneath the heavy swell There is a land the ancients trod, so I hear tell. Their way of life we cannot know, What they ate, what plants did grow; They fished, of that no doubts I’ve … Continue reading →

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What Pegman Saw: I Revere Thee

Posted on May 27, 2019 by crispina kemp

To leave a life of wealth and power And enter a sea of suffering and pain To wander, begging bowl in hand While its cause and cure to find; Enlightenment at last beneath a tree: For these reasons I revere … Continue reading →

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God of the Zodiac

Posted on May 21, 2019 by crispina kemp

  Who is the god of the Zodiac? Fleet-footed Mercury with his snake-twined caduceus Or the ever-triumphant Sol Invictus? Maybe it’s jovial Jupiter with his far reach? Or hot-headed Mars first into the breach? No, I’ll tell you, you heathens: … Continue reading →

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CCC#27: The New Green Earth

Posted on May 16, 2019 by crispina kemp

Come dance with me in the month of May Come welcome in the green-clothed day Come follow where the fairies tread Where decked in white fay maidens wed Come skip with me and flick your heels Dance Irish jigs and … Continue reading →

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Arise Meander

Posted on May 7, 2019 by crispina kemp

Arise, Meander, son of wedded waters: Of primal source, Titaness Tethys And all-encircling stream, the chaotic Oceanus. Arise Sir Knight, and spread far your name; Arise in Phrygia, for from Phrygia you came. And never a straight course did he … Continue reading →

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What Pegman Saw: Aspire to the Sky

Posted on May 6, 2019 by crispina kemp

Aspire to the sky, O cathedral of glass Built by the broken backs of the mass Acquisition of money-begotten Aspirations of first-settlers forgotten Ye clever creed of Krafted-Plate Written for What Pegman Saw According to Wikipedia, this magnificent cathedral of … Continue reading →

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