Tag: #survival

• #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

• #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