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Nah, You’ve Gotta Be Kidding

Posted on February 1, 2021 by crispina kemp

It’s your confusing style Your ghost of a smile Your softly formed profile Not strong and agile But disturbingly juvenile It’s your decadent lifestyle A voluntary exile Lived on a fantasy isle Away from the rank and file You’re barely … Continue reading →

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A Party of Non-Celebration

Posted on January 25, 2021 by crispina kemp

It has become all the fashion To affine to a political faction Either you’ve got the passion Or you’re out of the action Myself, I can’t see the attraction Of this false elevation In claiming a party of non-celebration 39 … Continue reading →

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CCC113: The One

Posted on January 7, 2021 by crispina kemp

Beaming light A guide in the fog of night A beacon to beckon us home A call that’s heard from far and near A welcome we cannot fail to hear Regardless of the miles we roam Not built of brick … Continue reading →

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Not Worth a Quid

Posted on December 22, 2020 by crispina kemp

The lazy squid wasn’t worth a quid Lazing, languid, amongst the prawns and langoustine Forming liaisons potentially clandestine The fisherman pulled the shrimps and the octopi out of his pot Not a good catch, wouldn’t fetch him a lot But … 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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CCC101: The Turn Around

Posted on October 15, 2020 by crispina kemp

What is this place he’s shown me? A folly. Shown to me, why? For my folly in loving him? I turn away that he won’t see the hurt in me With gentle hands, he turns me around You have it … Continue reading →

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Jamie, Jamie, Jamie and His Magic Torch

Posted on September 28, 2020 by crispina kemp

You remember that show From years ago On British TV What a nonsense spree Jamie, Jamie, he really was zany All cockamamie with his magic torch Whizzing down worm-holes Into weird and fuzzy other dimensions All done for children To … Continue reading →

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CCC98: Cobbler Bob

Posted on September 24, 2020 by crispina kemp

The old man ambled along the road Gnarled as the oaks he was passing A much-patched backpack hooked over his shoulders Shoulders already askew from the hump of his back He saw the shoe Looked down at his feet Oh, … Continue reading →

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Riddle Me Riddles But Do Not Lie

Posted on September 18, 2020 by crispina kemp

I was happy I was Alone I didn’t need anyone Until that virus caused lockdown What you cannot have, you desperately want I couldn’t have touches And hugs And kisses He knew that He played on it Said the words … Continue reading →

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Hot-DMing

Posted on September 14, 2020 by crispina kemp

Summer spent in tweeting Chatting, texting, hot-DMing Work outstanding shifted aside A summer of fun I’ll not deny But autumn brings deadlines Reminds me what I’m supposed to be doing Time to work, to rectify 35 words written for Sammi’s … Continue reading →

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