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Poems by Bess Kemp

What Became of Him


a baker's dozen of worries
roamed his head

nighttime complexities play harmonicas
and berate his ineptitude

diligence, he said, loud as yesterdays
doesn't make things any easier to take

all is known to be fodder
up and down throughout creation

all he set out to do became
mangled like most intentions

the judge in his forgotten reveries
overruled himself soundly

-Bess Kemp (with Walt Phillips)

Loneliness


she sits in the little yellow room
unaware
of the soft blue curtains
and flowered upholstery
not noticing
the sun peering through
the small window
throwing a sharp line
of light
on the wood floor

she its on the edge
of the bed
a still life
like arranged
fruit in a bowl
she is only aware
of certain absences
and the lines
of her hands
as she studies them
searching for answers
and finding none




Bess Kemp lives in the Napa Valley California with her family. "My poetry appears in a variety of places including current or forth-coming issues of Perimeter, River Valley Journal, Moria, Amrita, Gray Matter Tapestry, and Mind Fire Poetry Journal. I am also the editor of the e-zine ~Some words: A Place for Poetry~ at http://www.napanet.net/~bkemp/"


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