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#098: teal yoga mat

having my back since 2016 biodegradable mat with little frays at the seams the tiger-striped teal followed me undeterred from lively London to loveable Luxembourg a mirror disguised in padded opaque rubber for hands to grip, for feet to flutter upside down, then on the ground the breath sighs, it sings as this wild thing…

leona allen

August 12, 2021

#100repchallenge, poetry

#100repchallenge, #2016, #couplets, #poetry, #rhymingcouplets, #wildthing, #yoga, #yogamat, #yogapractice

#097: at last

their azure eyes faded into the yawning sky finding home at last

leona allen

August 11, 2021

#100repchallenge, poetry

#100repchallenge, #blue, #haiku, #home, #poetry, #sky

#096: 19 lines to build a habit

good intentions like villanelles resurfacing with regularity sometimes switching syntax sometimes selecting uniformity

leona allen

August 10, 2021

#100repchallenge, poetry

#100repchallenge, #poetry

#095: midweek, at the office

an open tin of water colour paints arrives on a communal table one day causing fingers to crawl over water-cut QWERTY keys scale the scalding glass of a fresh cup of tea and survive the plight of staple attacks before leaping into crimson’s near-empty pot over-zealous on love, willing to take their shot

leona allen

August 9, 2021

#100repchallenge, poetry

#100repchallenge, #office, #poetry

#094: almost finished

when the finish line is so close mind becomes five day old flowers ready to return to the soil from which it came dehydrated petals, a few still vying for life through their might they try others leaning languid in cloudy vase water daring the observer to drink or call it quits- the dirt is…

leona allen

August 8, 2021

#100repchallenge, poetry

#100repchallenge, #almost, #almostdone, #almostfinished, #endings, #flowers, #nearlythere, #poetry, #theendofaproject