Category: poetry

• 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

• the opening speech

  

  Welcome to camp To experimentation To “done” projects To progress over perfection Welcome to choosing creativity first To moving from an authentic space From the fire that is barely a flicker From that part I know is still there Welcome to the part beyond fear Like a great oak in the woods 30m after rainful…

  leona allen

  July 1, 2022

  #100tinyexperiments, #campnanowrimo, poetry

  #100tinyexperiments, #camp, #campnanowrimo, #doneisbetterthanperfect, #firstday, #oaktrees, #poetry, #progressoverperfection, #summer, #summercamp