Tag: #poetry

• #097: at last

  their azure eyes faded into the yawning sky finding home at last

  leona allen

  August 11, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #blue, #haiku, #home, #poetry, #sky

• #096: 19 lines to build a habit

  good intentions like villanelles resurfacing with regularity sometimes switching syntax sometimes selecting uniformity

  leona allen

  August 10, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #poetry

• #095: midweek, at the office

  an open tin of water colour paints arrives on a communal table one day causing fingers to crawl over water-cut QWERTY keys scale the scalding glass of a fresh cup of tea and survive the plight of staple attacks before leaping into crimson’s near-empty pot over-zealous on love, willing to take their shot

  leona allen

  August 9, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #office, #poetry

• #094: almost finished

  when the finish line is so close mind becomes five day old flowers ready to return to the soil from which it came dehydrated petals, a few still vying for life through their might they try others leaning languid in cloudy vase water daring the observer to drink or call it quits- the dirt is…

  leona allen

  August 8, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #almost, #almostdone, #almostfinished, #endings, #flowers, #nearlythere, #poetry, #theendofaproject

• #093: ’til aurora

  

  whether by chance or the sun really had used it’s last call to dial her body from it’s after-dinner nap her just-awoken eyes caught the evening sun being strong-armed away by the heavies: sun-buster 1 and 2 dressed head to toe in puffy grey suits “don’t worry love, go back to bed” their frail attempt…

  leona allen

  August 7, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #poetry, #sunset