Tag: #legacy

• #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

• #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