Tag: #growingup

• #061: Mother through play

  

  Draw the curtains Draw your mother Mother the plants Mother each other Other is laughing Other is living Living in New York, Paris, Belfast Living anywhere but the past Past go, now I can collect my cash Past 4pm, feel like the day is done Done and dusted Done is better than perfect? Perfect prefects…

  leona allen

  July 6, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #blitzpoem, #campnanowrimo, #form, #growingup, #mother, #newform, #play, #poetry, #survival

• #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

• #002: Chipped Bark

  

  He held sand dirt in his palms Running into the sunset with two tiny fists The contents (like love) escaped his tightening grip like a sieve I’m a romantic And we are just kids trying to climb ancestral trees Searching for where our lives intersect with a legacy

  leona allen

  May 8, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #growingup, #legacy, #poetry