Category: poetry

• 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

• Flamenca: notes from this morning’s podcast

  

  Organised Abandon left him an open wound ripped pages flailing in a wind, ungraded demarcated, marooned. My first attempt at the Flamenca 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 3, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #creativereflection, #flamenca, #flamencapoem, #flamencapoetry, #morningwriting, #newpoetryform, #organisedabandon, #podcastpoetry, #podcasts, #poem, #poetry

• Procrastinating Cat POV

  

  I watch the clowder stroll Feet dancing round the big people Their marshmallow paws hop-scotching over stones I see them and translucent me from the sill . If Kitnme could see me now Regurgitating bezoars like my human’s excuses Past mistakes and heartbreaks have us Perched on the wrong side of possibility . I have…

  leona allen

  May 1, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #animalthoughts, #catpoem, #catpoems, #cats, #catsanddogs, #clowder, #dogpoem, #poetry, #procrastination

• the breath before the word

  

  three dots beginning middle and end what story will we make of lives?

  leona allen

  March 19, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #craft, #espanol, #hestitation, #identity, #poetry, #story, #storyofourlives

• 12 Frames

  

  What is the picture to the frame? And who holds it? Me, You, Dupree or Auntie? I saw your eye twitch thrice. Looking like who shot John. I want to write to you without words. He said why’s my face making faces? Truth leaking out of pores Out of salty tears and nostrils streaming with…

  leona allen

  March 10, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #100tinyexperiments, #12, #art, #experimentalpoetry, #frames, #imageandpoetry, #lovepoem, #observations, #poetry, #questionsonlove, #shadows