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#056: Found in mottled bricks and subreddits, in your own breath and family relics

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leona allen

July 1, 2021

#100repchallenge, #campnanowrimo, #home, #onewordpoem, #poetry

#055: Packing for Camp NaNoWriMo

Tomorrow is the first day of camp Bring your pencils and paper Goggles, beach towels Bring your crazy golf tactics Friendship bracelets, word counts, Bring your hope for the summer, Permission slip from your mother, Campfire anthems, I can’t write anymore tantrums Bring all those nerves and your jitters Just don’t forget your nerve, shower…

leona allen

June 30, 2021

#100repchallenge, poetry

#100repchallenge, #camp, #campnanowrimo, #july, #nanowrimo, #packing, #packingforcamp, #pantser, #plotter, #poetry, #prep, #preparation, #story, #storybeats, #summer, #summercamp, #writing, #writingprep

#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 . Of how we tried? We tried to try? Oh, what a life! Oh, how we tried! . When their elders transferred, they lived on in the trunk of the…

leona allen

June 29, 2021

#100repchallenge, poetry

#100repchallenge, #ancestors, #anthocyanin, #autumn, #education, #elders, #fall, #family, #familywisdom, #hope, #inheritance, #legacy, #plants, #poem, #poetry, #reflections, #seasons, #secrets, #stories, #story, #survival, #thepowerofstories, #trees, #wisdom

#053: Zigazig Ah

To come back to Tusker/ The heavy-footed phantom in the room/ Sounding their inaudible trunk before/ The splitter splatter of their spectral saliva/Rains droplets of doubt on Debbie/ A drinker from the cup of unanswerable desire/ Unfindable truth/ She scribbles sweet nothings/ And I Owe You’s/ Hoping one day to bank the cheque of purpose/…

leona allen

June 28, 2021

#100repchallenge, poetry

#100repchallenge, #elephantintheroom, #hope, #poetry, #spicegirls, #thefuture, #wanting, #zigazigah

Sunday Round Up 27/06/2021

Hello World and Happy Sunday!I hope everyone’s week has been full of inspiration, exploration and crafting something new. And if none of those have graced your plate, perhaps there’s still some space today? As I mentioned last week, these Sunday updates are to house the things that have provoked me, awoke me, or in some…

leona allen

June 27, 2021

weekly review