Tag: #100repchallenge

• #015: Like leaves on the ground

  

  Crumpled foliage Flood the streets, the house, the heath Bare spines in plain sight

  leona allen

  May 21, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #haiku, #poetry

• #014: On the language floor of a bookshop

  

  I’m trying to decide whether to buy Miguel de Cervantes for kids Or a book on the grammatical structure of Jamaican Creole When- . “Gary, love, you know those twenty pound notes you gave me” . A tinny voice Scratches their way out of a speaker phone The hand that holds the phone Nowhere to…

  leona allen

  May 20, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #bookshop, #languages, #poetry

• #013: I hear a sheep go baa in the middle of the city

  

  9:27pm I hear a sheep go baa in the middle of the city Or perhaps it’s my neighbour’s cat trying to do their Simba thing Or the tease between a stray door and the wind Or maybe a sheep really did go baa. . Their staccato vibrations Pleasantly pierce through the tweeting birds Who have…

  leona allen

  May 19, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #poetry, #sheep

• #012: Arguing with the elements

  

  A friendly fracas For a bird in want of flight “Where are you going” Called the wind after the crow “Ha. Wouldn’t you like to know?”

  leona allen

  May 18, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #bird, #crow, #poetry, #tanka, #wind

• #011: Las Nubes/ The Clouds

  

  Today we saw Cloud’s bump Darken, ready for birth Each kick a roll of thunder Misery Alexander Beaumont-Arthur The Third Ready to roll out Del cielo a la tierra Lungs of lightning El grito de guerra And out poured life All over the green Out poured tears Adding to the pastoral scene Third generation out…

  leona allen

  May 17, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #cielo, #clouds, #lasnubes, #naturepoem, #poesia, #poetry, #tierra