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Don't miss this Christmas by falling asleep.

I know the Queen is boring but at least there's nothing to bleep.

Bad language has its place I guess in films and on the screen,

But with the speech from the Palace at least you know it is clean!


Don't miss this Christmas by getting drunk then falling down.

There are enough out there already who play the fool and clown around.

Pubs are great and wine bars too certainly have their place,

But you really are an embarrassment with blood all over your face.


Don't miss this Christmas by staying out too late the night before.

Remember loved ones who might need your help. Don't be a selfish bore!

Having fun and laughter is what you should share,

With those you want to be with and you know who really care.


Don't miss this Christmas by things that you could circumvent

And never eat the last Brussel sprout without someone's consent!

Have a Great Christmas and share a laugh or three

Surrounded by those who love you and give their love for free.

Merry Christmas to you all.

© 2017 Daniel Kemp

No Time

If in Heaven all truth does lie
And one has no choice but to die
So speed the day so I might see
All the love that’s been lost to me.

If love being lost is to close that door
And Heaven is not my answer nor my cure,
Then a shattered heart will never mend
And my decisions are ones I cannot defend.

In pain with desperation and disbelief.
I seek the Heavenly answer to bring me relief,
But will that relief bring an end
To a heart that’s broken with no chance to mend.

Because mend it must before time be
Completely over and closed to me.

© 2018, Danny Kemp All rights reserved.

A poem about a path that I have just read on here reminded me of one of the first things I ever wrote----I hope you like it.

Along The Way

“I am heavy, I am tired,” said the old man to the child.
“My life is drawing to an end.
It is not what I have done to life that has brought me here today, but what life has done to me along the way.

I was strong, I was fierce, I took no-one to my side, simply brushing them aside with no need for them.
Now I find that I’m alone, but don’t pity nor disown those memories that I’ve sown, along the way.

My path was never straight, sometimes narrow, sometimes wide but along it I did stride to find you here.
Now stand you tall, never cry, have no tear in an eye as you hear what I have done along my way.

I have reached that final bend, the one that leads me to my end, and now I leave you here to make your own way through this life.
Tread your path with care, and always be aware that there is no such thing in life, as a mistake.”



© 2012, Danny Kemp. All rights reserved.

What call you love?
What call you life?
What is it you do that makes you-you?

Tell me your truth.
Tell me your lie.
But bring love to my life then let me die.

© 2018, Danny Kemp All rights reserved.

To dare. To care.
To wonder what took one there.

One kiss. To reminisce.
To wonder about that bliss.

To leave. To grieve
To wonder what to believe.

To be alone with all that’s known.
To wonder if one could atone?

© 2019, Daniel Kemp All rights reserved.

I smiled but she never smiled with me.
I laughed but only saw her tear.
I spoke but she never heard what I was saying.
I felt pain from the crushing sense of fear.

She asked if I was leaving?
I replied—what else could I do?
She said she never meant to do it.
I replied—Is there anything you’ve said that was true?

We made peace and joined together.
We were one for a year or more.
But the barrier grew stronger and wider.
Until at last neither of us was sure.

Death saw a permanent separation.
Leaving my conscience to wonder why.
Did life ever hold an answer,
Or was love always destined to die?

© 2018, Daniel Kemp All rights reserved

Your words of love that were shared with mine
A truth that fell through a passage of time
Hopes that were crushed and now have died
A world that stopped when the tears were cried.

© 2019 Daniel Kemp

The sway of her hair bound in a tie,

Caught my attention, made my heart sigh.

The elegant walk, the movement, the grace,

The confidence showed by the look on her face.

Her curves, of course, were a further distraction

But sophistication in itself is a tremendous attraction.

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Where cast you love when love has died,
When the heart stops racing and there’s nothing inside?
Where goes passion, exciting and heaven-sent?
Where goes its taste, its fragrance, and its scent?

Can love once lived be lived once more?
Could absorbed by love be life’s cure?
If death be an end from which there’s no defence,
Was love created as death’s recompense?

© 2019 Daniel Kemp All rights reserved

When I was a young man the first thing on my mind was the opposite sex. Next came rugby in the winter and cricket in the summer. Academic studies were not high on my list of priorities. However, there was one poet who stuck in my mind and it wasn’t so much his work that I remember, it was the brevity he used to express emotions or paint an image. That man was Percy Bysshe Shelley and I can’t even remember how to pronounce his middle name.

Some of his poems were not brief they went on and on and on to the delight of poetry aficionados, but not me. The telling of a long-winded poem to a beautiful girl was not a priority. However, succinct poetry that drove a spear through all resistance was!

This old poem of mine is influenced by Shelley’s great command of the simplistic.



The Girl In The Heart

To rise from this barren earth
To soar above, to wing away
To escape from all that’s lacking
And live to love another day

© 2017 Daniel Kemp All rights reserved