Studio LERIAL

a curiosity project through poetry and video

#054: Stories as secrets of survival

When we’ve had our fill of chlorophyll

Getting ready for those purple days

We’ve earnt our ancestral anthocyanins

Time to pass on our earthly essays

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Of how we tried?

We tried to try?

Oh, what a life!

Oh, how we tried!

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When their elders transferred, they lived on in the trunk of the tree

So their deep-rooted wisdom greeted the collective on the daily

Tales not simply tales but secrets of survival branded on bark

What letters will we leave so our buds aren’t abandoned in the dark?

One response to “#054: Stories as secrets of survival”

  1. […] try to draw a comic based on a poem I wrote during the 100 rep challenge. I picked 54. Which meant ‘Stories as Secrets of Survival.’ As someone relatively new to drawing (and even newer to making it a regular practice) why oh why […]

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