Tag: #reflections

• What are you pretending not to know?

  

  A seven-worded prompt For an origami heart Creases leaking, splitting apart Folded unfolded, folded again A swamped song in the chest, drained by the pen.

  leona allen

  May 18, 2023

  #100tinyexperiments, poetry

  #journalprompt, #origami, #poetry, #prompt, #reflections, #writingprompt

• Sunday Round-Up 18/07/2021

  

  –SUNDAY ROUND UP– A few things I’ve found useful/inspiring this week of the #100repchallenge: Poetic Forms This week I experimented with the Lune form in two poems #071: An awful microwave and #072: FOMO at bedtime. I specifically focused on the Collum lune where the pattern goes 3 words, 5 words, 3 words. An even…

  leona allen

  July 18, 2021

  weekly review

  #collumlune, #dontrainonmyparade, #funnygirl, #lifeiscandy, #lune, #lunepoems, #multiudes, #poetryeducation, #poetryfilms, #poetryvideos, #reflections, #songofmyself, #waltwhitman

• #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

• #045: all this time/sunday roundup

  

  All this time spent on the what’s And hows How’s about I deposit a why? . Hello World and Happy Sunday! 45% in to my #100repchallenge, I’ve realised I’ve never actually sat down to write a post about why I’m doing this. This challenge is about posting a creation (usually a poem) every day for…

  leona allen

  June 20, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry, weekly review

  #100repchallenge, #dailypractice, #dailywriting, #inspiration, #poetry, #poetrychallenge, #poetryeducation, #poetrytechnique, #reflections, #selfeducation, #sundayreview, #thelerial, #weeklyroundup, #writing, #writinglife

• #007: To Build A Tongue

  

  This week I made a tongue out of digital ink Fibrillating muscle crafted by equally twitchy fingertips Fingertips that played staccato scales on non-musical keyboards Fingertips that scratched the skin off inedible apples Scoured juvenile journals made of trees and mystical code To make an abode out of ethereal brain pickings. . This week the…

  leona allen

  May 13, 2021

  #100repchallenge, poetry

  #100repchallenge, #poetry, #reflections