Author: leona allen

• the breath before the word

  

  three dots beginning middle and end what story will we make of lives?

  leona allen

  March 19, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #craft, #espanol, #hestitation, #identity, #poetry, #story, #storyofourlives

• Sunday Round-up 12/03/2023

  

  Hello World and Happy Sunday! It’s been a while since the last Sunday Round-up, but I’m back and ready to continue the documentation of my process! The #100repchallenge was successful in that it helped to kickstart a practice of consistent writing and 100 poems entered the digital sphere. Since the last time we spoke, I…

  leona allen

  March 12, 2023

  weekly review

  #creationvconsumption, #poetry, #process, #sunday, #sundaywriting, #weeklyreview, #writingprocess, #writingritual

• 12 Frames

  

  What is the picture to the frame? And who holds it? Me, You, Dupree or Auntie? I saw your eye twitch thrice. Looking like who shot John. I want to write to you without words. He said why’s my face making faces? Truth leaking out of pores Out of salty tears and nostrils streaming with…

  leona allen

  March 10, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #100tinyexperiments, #12, #art, #experimentalpoetry, #frames, #imageandpoetry, #lovepoem, #observations, #poetry, #questionsonlove, #shadows

• where the pen goes

  

  leona allen

  July 2, 2022

  #100tinyexperiments, #campnanowrimo

  #artjournal, #campnanowrimo, #collage, #journal, #journalling, #scrapbook, #writing

• the opening speech

  

  Welcome to camp To experimentation To “done” projects To progress over perfection Welcome to choosing creativity first To moving from an authentic space From the fire that is barely a flicker From that part I know is still there Welcome to the part beyond fear Like a great oak in the woods 30m after rainful…

  leona allen

  July 1, 2022

  #100tinyexperiments, #campnanowrimo, poetry

  #100tinyexperiments, #camp, #campnanowrimo, #doneisbetterthanperfect, #firstday, #oaktrees, #poetry, #progressoverperfection, #summer, #summercamp