Category: #100repchallenge

• #065: she was built on

  Shake n Bake, ketchup on rice Carrots for Rudolf and better eye sight WB Kids, reruns of Colombo Jessica Fletcher, 41’s Dumbo Snake ’98, WKDs ‘HipHop’ dance tutorials on DVD Schloastic Book Fairs, Orchestra Recitals Tuning in for Pop Stars: The Rivals Domino Fridays, Old Country Buffet Sundays Perpetually failing the Lords quiz on bible…

  leona allen

  July 10, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #campnanowrimo, #poetry

• #064: Up to your ears or down like they mean it, those neighbours of the neck, those polyglots equally fluent in coy and consolation, those bearers of supposed chips and the weight of mates wanting a better view of the gig, continue to shake in grief and ecstatic joy.

  Shoulders

  leona allen

  July 9, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #campnanowrimo, #griefandjoy, #onewordpoem, #poetry, #shoulders

• #063: Clouds left to their own devices

  Clouds watching themselves Then peaking below to find #humansthatlooklikethings

  leona allen

  July 8, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #campnanowrimo, #clouds, #cloudwatching, #haiku, #peoplewatching, #poetry

• #062: Englyn Milwr Practice

  Of the future Placated in promises Sketched actions, mere hypothesis Made by hopeful novices . They tested their theories twice Would story survive the vice Would they need to sacrifice . Attention, money and space Wedding cards smothered in lace Their young hearts quickened in pace

  leona allen

  July 7, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #campnanowrimo, #englynmilwr, #form, #newpoetryform, #poetry, #tercet, #welshpoetryform, #welshtercetform

• #061: Mother through play

  

  Draw the curtains Draw your mother Mother the plants Mother each other Other is laughing Other is living Living in New York, Paris, Belfast Living anywhere but the past Past go, now I can collect my cash Past 4pm, feel like the day is done Done and dusted Done is better than perfect? Perfect prefects…

  leona allen

  July 6, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #blitzpoem, #campnanowrimo, #form, #growingup, #mother, #newform, #play, #poetry, #survival