Category: 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

• #052: Mo and the Magician 1

  

  [MO] At what point did the jaw release itself from the face? . [MAGICIAN] At what point did your lies decide to cultivate its own fate?

  leona allen

  June 27, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #poetry, #questions

• #051: flowering

  Fervour flowered through a crack of the edifice Like a common weed Sometimes there’s a call for forestry To burst through the seams But if you look below your feet The slabs you walk on week to week That concrete cannot seem to stop Life making itself known, unabashedly.

  leona allen

  June 26, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #beginnings, #flower, #flowering, #garden, #growingup, #growth, #life, #plantpoem, #plants, #poetry