Category: #100repchallenge

• #060: Cat-mates, circa 2017

  

  My house cats They go rat a tat tat Either sleeping on the sofa Or fighting with the doormat . Bringing rowdy friends home From they streets they did roam “More food” they roar “more food” Cat-whispering their groans . They stay up for Project Runway Side-eye slide out when it’s Scandal One measley box…

  leona allen

  July 5, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #2017, #campnanowrimo, #catpoems, #cats, #catsitting, #nightin, #poetry, #projectrunway, #quatrains, #scandal

• #059: 4th July

  we glided across those globe-wide american roads from JFK to Londium accent switch with brand new idioms from Cinnamon Toast Crunch to Weetabix from salt-butter popcorn to cinema sweet fix unlunchable rice puddin citrine custard with the skin in boxy cars and grey linen rounders games and “beef” brimmin culture shock, new g-shock watch Atomic…

  leona allen

  July 4, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #campnanowrimo, #couplets, #fourthofjuly, #poetry, #rhymingcouplets

• #058: 11:59pm

  there’s a blank sheet waiting on the desk once fresh veg spoiling in the fridge a mind manufacturing the great and grotesque a troll waiting underneath a bridge

  leona allen

  July 3, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #campnanowrimo, #poetry, #procrastination

• #057: Sulking Room Pink

  with all the angst of an autumn’s eve with skin as sensitive as those changing trees with wistful walls of a well known room with as much function as a well-loved broom with all the queries her heart could contain these walls held witness without shame or blame.

  leona allen

  July 2, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #campnanowrimo, #couplets, #poetry, #retreat, #saferoom

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

  Home

  leona allen

  July 1, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

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