Category: poetry

• What are you pretending not to know?

  

  A seven-worded prompt For an origami heart Creases leaking, splitting apart Folded unfolded, folded again A swamped song in the chest, drained by the pen.

  leona allen

  May 18, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #journalprompt, #origami, #poetry, #prompt, #reflections, #writingprompt

• I was with you ’til then

  

  Why do people on tv have their shoes on the bed? Which home allows Outside dirt so close to where you sleep? . I was with you ’til then Following your speech ‘Til your laced up feet broke my suspended disbelief.

  leona allen

  May 17, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #fictionandreality, #home, #poetry, #shoesonthebed, #suspensionofdisbelief, #tvhomes, #tvpoetry, #writing

• Nostalgia (a tricube poem)

  

  Pretending Not to see The lava . We braided Nostalgia Into ropes . Bridging us 90s quotes And candy. . . . My first attempt at the Tricube poetry form. If you want to have a go yourself click here to read an article with the rules of the form. Happy scribing! x

  leona allen

  May 16, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #90spoetry, #floorislava, #nostalgiapoem, #poetry, #the90s, #tricube, #tricubepoem, #tricubepoetry

• a peeling (an imayo)

  

  Postcards printed on cotton- or piel penned with ink Azul irises returned- to sender or spring That summer of stringed gafas- of tatuajes Leaking stories through the skin- a five-floored fable . My first attempt at the Imayo poetry form. If you want to have a go yourself click here to read an article with…

  leona allen

  May 15, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #flow, #holidaypoem, #holidaypoetry, #imayo, #imayoform, #imayopoetry, #japanesepoetryform, #lettinggo, #peeling, #poetry, #spring, #springpoems, #summer, #summerpoetry, #tattoopoems, #tattoopoetry, #tattoos, #tatuajes, #travelpoems, #travelpoetry

• Summer Ruminations (a catena rondo)

  

  That was the summer sand got caught in his throat Between 18-mile cycles to the beach Dilated pupils, hands out of reach That was the summer sand got caught in his throat . Between 18-mile cycles to the beach He replayed the silences of last night’s call Berating a heart if it dared to once…

  leona allen

  May 13, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #bikepoetry, #catena, #catenarondo, #overthinking, #poetry, #rondo, #ruminate, #summer, #summerpoem, #summerpoetry, #writing