To not live alone and be apart
To welcome love and share a heart
To take a blow without complaint
To offer peace without constraint
To be pure when morals scream
To only see beauty in all you dream
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To show compassion to those in need
To be content with no thought of greed
To wish for nothing and ask for less
To live a life without duress
To offer silence in a raging storm
To be yourself and not conform
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To accept the pitfalls along your path
To smile and always be willing to laugh
To see good where others see bad
To be happy and never be sad
To be complete with love to spare
To live in colour where nothing is bare
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To encourage and abide
To be humble and not full of pride.
To wish that fear could abate
To offer friendship and speak no more of hate
If Christmas was not just once a year
If no child never cried a tear!
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Sentimental words and points of view
If only some were all we ever knew!
© 2016, Danny Kemp
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About Daniel Kemp
Daniel Kemp’s introduction to the world of espionage and mystery happened at an early age when his father was employed by the War Office in Whitehall, London, at the end of WWII. However, it wasn’t until after his father died that he showed any interest in anything other than himself!
On leaving academia he took on many roles in his working life: a London police officer, mini-cab business owner, pub tenant and licensed London taxi driver, but never did he plan to become a writer. Nevertheless, after a road traffic accident left him suffering from PTSD and effectively—out of paid work for four years, he wrote and self-published his first novel —The Desolate Garden. Within three months of publication, that book was under a paid option to become a $30 million film. The option lasted for five years until distribution became an insurmountable problem for the production company.
All seven of his novels are now published by Creativia with the seventh—The Widow’s Son, completing a three book series alongside: What Happened In Vienna, Jack? and Once I Was A Soldier. Under the Creativia publishing banner, The Desolate Garden went on to become a bestselling novel in World and Russian Literature in 2017. The following year, in May 2018, his book What Happened In Vienna, Jack? was a number one bestseller on four separate Amazon sites: America, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Although it's true to say that he mainly concentrates on what he knows most about; murders laced by the mystery involving spies, his diverse experience of life shows in the short stories he writes, namely: Why? A Complicated Love, and the intriguing story titled The Story That Had No Beginning.
He is the recipient of rave reviews from a prestigious Manhattan publication and described as—the new Graham Green—by a highly placed employee of Waterstones Books, for whom he did a countrywide tour of book signing events. He has also appeared on 'live' television in the UK publicising that first novel of his.
He continues to write novels, poetry and the occasional quote; this one is taken from the beginning of Once I Was A Soldier
There is no morality to be found in evil. But to recognise that which is truly evil one must forget the rules of morality.
beautiful, danny –
That’s very kind of you!
Your poem fits you to a tee Danny, it would be wonderful if the rest of the world would heed the words. :o)
🙂 🙂 🙂