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enjoy my 2025 collection ordinary moving also 23 95 usd it s a companion volume to colour fielding https www silverbowpublishing com ordinary moving html translation a marvellous videopoem by dennis siren based on my reading the poem https www youtube nocookie com embed wmqzgfljtws start 22s rel 0 autoplay 0 showinfo 0 enablejsapi 0 thanks to sheila curnoe for permission to feature greg curnoe s paintings on the covers i chose his bike for the aptly iconic meme that runs along its crossbar close the 49 th parallel thanks to silver bow publishing for their elegant design and extraordinary speed posted in uncategorized tagged art art and poetry london on poem poems poetry writing leave a comment featured lift to levity sage ing the journal of creative aging publishes on the lighter side of now p 30 32 up now thanks to editor karen close https www sageing ca sageing56 html here s the longer vision left to levity now up on thanks to rob mcclennan https periodicityjournal blogspot com 2026 02 penn kemp left to levity html humour is what i can write even when overwhelmed with emotion what surfaces at such extremes is not joking per se but word association leaps of language take over rational thought in ways that surprise the usual container of logic does not hold in bypassing the control of mind word play leaps straight out of a larger unconscious realm that is both personal and collective such a vast source often includes the etymology of language itself and so it is the truest expression of a poem for me when the depth of emotion cannot be contained amazed by what springs to mind without my intervention i am jolted out of funk into delight and spontaneous laughter the resulting poems are silly yes but look at the etymology of that word silly has undergone a dramatic shift from positive to negative originating in old english as s ǣ lig meaning happy blessed or fortunate it then evolved through middle english to signify innocent harmless and pitiable before taking on its modern sense of foolish simple or ridiculous by the 1570s a journey from holy to daft reflecting changing cultural perceptions so i return to origin evoking the holy fool of the tarot jauntily stepping into the abyss confident of support from the play of language itself word ravels word revels word rebels word regales word regains word regurgitates word avers word unravels word knits word nits word nerds word nuts word knots word not lest you be not heard word a lot and you ll be freed my sense of language is shaped by puns around my family s dining room table repartee claimed attention wit was the quality most admired puns were not just intended but encouraged and celebrated and endlessly repeated if so merited giggles ensued so i learned to think fast to be en garde ready with a quick quip to convert tales from school into family entertainment war stories shaped our household as a navy officer in world war 11 language was my father s method for deflecting trauma jim kemp s wicked sense of humour was expressed in satirical wartime cartoons now archived in the ottawa war museum one cartoon published on the front page of the montreal standard in 1946 presents a line of green faced sailors leaning over the side of the corvette to vomit 1his 1940s graphic story george the purple spotted horse published by pendas productions reflected this sardonic response the hero is a horse of a different colour despite obstacles wins both race and girl jim kemp was also a practical joker the jokes sometimes on us kids the year after his near fatal coronary instead of a christmas tree he created a life size paper mâché figure of a black vulture its talons grasped a polished bough the cane he leant on at the beaux arts ball in the photo i have included embracing and at the same time defying his status as invalid he dressed as old father time for the beaux arts ball his companion was the normally staid museum curator clare bice as the new year baby in diapers their wives dressed as their nurses in the face of trauma some of us have learned to turn to humour as default levity is a way of taking control when you are feeling powerless laughter mitigates the effect of stress on the body maybe you can t control what has happened but you can always choose your reaction electing a light hearted response is a way of taking action so that the trauma is somehow lightened limited boxed in and manageable once back in charge you are free to create over time the practice of levity becomes a habit and then a character trait and sometimes a family tradition dad showed me how language is malleable elastic meanings shift words contain multitudes my work has a sound poet derives in part from that sense of possibilty words could be re defined through sound as homonym this kind of language emerges in my book cd collection incrementally hemp press published a free e book https www hempressbooks com shop p incrementally by penn kemp and digital album https angrystarlings bandcamp com album incrementally levity u u more humour or humour or less humour or lesson humour or less undo humour or less undo what humour or less undo what u humour or less undo what u d humour or less undo what u d sir humour or less undo what u d serve u u re u re see u re see if u re sieve a a chore a chore till a chortle or a bell e laugh hour d fence a gain st all sere e us un as sail a bull man ooo vers incrementally is a compendium of my trademark sound poems these works span the whole of my career they are a crowd pleaser in participatory performance because they re such fun i love to lift the poem off the page and plant it firmly in the imagination through humour as poems on the page these are concrete poetry in which the shape and motion of the words on the page are part of the intended effect in performance the vocal acrobatics elicit amazed response especially for first timers a sounding performance in a school setting is guaranteed to jar loose the inhibitions of the most jaded teenagers sounding is a hoot as our first and perhaps our last resource sounding allows for any eventuality for me sound poetry offers creative expression when words fail the enormity of emotions sub verbal sounding explores language in widening waves of individual expression until the experience becomes participatory between image and sound as a poem s priority i can not choose so the work becomes concrete and or performance poetry where improvisation interweaves surprising dimensions incrementally is a collection of sound and pattern poetry built up to a statement from a simple syllable it plays with sight sound and puns an externalised language the pattern poetry passes through traditional forms to current concrete structures and soundings meaning is produced through the patterned building of language assonance and transformation of thought through interaction each line tricks the reader into hearing more than one meaning a wall of sound gradually builds a coherent structure in the same way that children learn language as meaning emerges these poems are meant to be a shared exploration of sound in participatory play poetry comes alive as words spring and fall from the page creating visual and sounds patterns connotations and transforms the integrity of the language into a motion of surprise for the readers sounding explores language by widening waves of individual expression as the experience becomes participatory between image and sound the language s motion becomes the poem s priority the work becomes a concrete form of performance poetry where the improvisation interweaves surprising dimensions the poems are humorous responses to the stresses of contemporary life on a body that would rather follow the rhythm of its own phases sound poems burst out of the complexities of living in a setting that overwhelms the natural world with artificial stimuli poetry is my defence against such forces an energy outlet whatever the subject it is great fun to continue the play of invention in performance especially in participatory performances each piece is meant to lift off the page as you read it aloud is allowed so please try these words out on the tip of your tongue list ten list list ten list ten to list ten tooth list ten to the list ten to thumb list ten to the hum list ten to the hum of the list ten to the hum of the bee list ten to the hum of the bee love list ten to the hum of the bee love ed winging a way a cross a crow dead room or rumour heard only by spirit ears sin tax in in tents in tent s eye in tents i m in tents ima in tents i m a gain in tents i m again in in tents i m again in gnat in tents i m again in gnat shun in tents i m again in gnat shun brie in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze lit in tents i m again in gnat shun breeds litter in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze lit tear rare in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze lit tear airy in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze litter eyrie hiss in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze litter eyrie his store in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze litter eyrie his store in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze litter eyrie his store in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze litter eyrie his store in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze litter eyrie his store in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze litter eyrie his store in tents i m again in gnat shun breeze litter airy history intense imagination breeds literary history intense imagination breeds literary history intense imagination breeds literary history in tense intense imagination breeds literary history intense imagination breeds literary history intense imagination breeds literary history in tense imagination press sent passed few sure here s my latest example of a poem as word play lethologica the technical term for a typical type of forgetting the image that squats on tip of tongue resolutely refusing to release the word we know so well the name you know like the back of your hand slides off the tongue down the little red lane lands in a splash of acid reflex not to be regurgitated whole o how to put together what springs to mind what pops up the tongue worries the hole where the tooth once was where the name is still somewhere lurking on tippy toes tongue tied unwilling or able to announce itself boldly skirting the premises hiding behind the molar column next door i know you are there nicky knocky nine doors you re it flit and you drown in saliva the flood onslaught of thought to catch you by word association won t work now what will begging beseeching demanding my paralyzed tongue cannot wrap itself round a nickname in the vernacular an image beckons nameless but it s the name on the tip you want you lethologica up now in swirling versions with my sounding on https seaofpo vispo com p pk so much fun to perform poetry comes alive when heard try it on your tongue image of penn by harold rhenisch poet performer and playwright penn kemp has been celebrated as a trailblazer and a literary ninja since her first book from coach house press 1972 the league of canadian poets honored her with their inaugural lifetime achievement award 2025 as spoken word artist of the year 2015 and a foremother of canadian poetry recent collections include ordinary moving silver bow publishing 2025 lives of dead poets above ground press 2025 incrementally hem press 2024 poems in response to peril an anthology for ukraine co editor pendas productions 2023 p s with sharon thesen gap riot press 2022 and https publicreverie com poems for barry a digital chapbook 2026 penn is active across the web with multimedia collaborations see pennkemp substack com and pennkemp weebly com captions cartoons by jim kemp famous couples new year s eve london ontario first published in https periodicityjournal blogspot com 2026 02 penn kemp left to levity html a version of this essay is up on march 21 2026 in sage ing 56 https www sageing ca with my gratitude to publishers jim andrews https seaofpo vispo com richard capener karen close https www sageing ca and rob mcclennan https periodicityjournal blogspot com i ll be happily hibernating until we slough off the green wood snake on february 17 the fire horse canters in on the lunar new year not seen since 1966 the cycle continues with changes afoot losar tashi delek posted in uncategorized tagged books canadian poets humour poem poems poetry writing 1 comment featured poems for barry dempster january 20 2026 public reverie mag https publicreverie com poems for barry a digital chapbook penn kemp s digital chapbook poems for barry a series she wrote before and shortly after barry dempster s death contents poems for solstice two very very very poems no title springings 2026 the poet heads home with her antlered head transformed 1 intro 2 sitting vigil 3 27 november 2025 4 for you dear friend and fellow poet 5 endling 6 enter bear comments public reverie com is pleased to publish our second digital chapbook penn kemp s poems for barry as part of the barry dempster tribute january 17 1952 november 27 2025 sitting vigil what words would work to carry you lightly through this last pass what sweet sounds to lift through the thunder in your ears to silence thought so that you might in all good faith attend to the next un expected and closely attended a tension must be paid but let it not be strain nor stress nor more pain enough already as you are still here realized and ready to return to source by grace and goodness standing at the door jamb in be tween being and being waiting while welcoming hosts surround you standing on the threshold at the hinge of possibility waiting soon to be over the willing here on the border looking both ways as you face janus born unknown lands only glimpsed until now may light embrace you and all you love be with you love and light all round ease to lighten the way may you be carefully carried over to whatever realm awaits you may you feel welcome may you fly free november 27 2025 thanksgiving everywhere light flurries now lake effect snow squalls soon before the snow flies before you die or while at your appointed hour i ll head outside to cut forsythia fooled by false thaw to set blooms too fast in no time forced branches will flower fierce yellow lighting the living room you are lifting off suddenly everywhere lighter than air and free to be all you have been and all you are still the frail globe of your head so fragile a moment ago is now suspended above all you ve left behind lying flat outdone finished finally you are no longer limited you soar as worlds unfold a wonder of words yours to explore now you have all the time in time out be yond dimensions bubble each with their own film surrounding where does your attention wander hold to the light or let go whatever works transmission ensues who cares what is real what wish full thought when thought stops i sit fingers poised about the keys awaiting the next word exquisite i hear and type so 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