Novel Allen

Joined March 2021

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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. (Maya Angelou). Genuine accomplishment is not about financial gain, but about dedicating oneself to activities that bring joy and fulfillment.

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A $ for New Suggestions for the Vocal Leaderboard categories. A Harvest.
Gathering is an act of keeping. It might be harvests drawn from the earth, memories gathered like photographs, or small moments held before they slip away. To gather is to value, to carry forward, to make something whole from many parts. Rooted in the physical or in the emotional, in tradition or in personal memory. Think about what it feels like to gather, and what it means once you have. (Vocal challenge).
By Novel Allen4 months ago in Poets
Owl to Moon.
Who...says Owl ~It's Me Who - ~Me - Ok. We can do this all night - laughs Owl We both laugh together ~I have a letter for the Moon. Says Me
By Novel Allen4 months ago in Poets
My Pieces through the keyhole.
Peeking through the keyhole of life today seems quite dire - it aligns with peeking through the inward parts of my Self. Everything is mis-aligning - chaos reigns (inwards and outwards)
By Novel Allen4 months ago in Fiction
Ghosts came to Tea
Now, believe me when I tell you, that Shamus and I had no idea that we had been dead these past ten years. I mean, we have had our "All Hallow's Eve Tea Party Date" at the same time at midnight every year since we had been together.
By Novel Allen4 months ago in Fiction
Heart's Desire
The serpent devil has remoulded his form - become reborn in beauty A beguiling inescapable risk - reeking of danger and downfall
By Novel Allen4 months ago in Poets
Thank you everyone who spared a moment to wish Jamaica well with me during the storm.. Top Story - October 2025.
A lighthouse stands firm as the storm parts, golden light breaks through, and hands clasp in solidarity. Gratitude After the Tempest
By Novel Allen4 months ago in Writers
The Hunt for the Beloved
I begin the hunt for idealism - for Perfection - Is it just a Fool's odyssey - Some say it does not exist. Still I persist.
By Novel Allen4 months ago in Poets
A Storm for Jamaica. A Rainbow rose for my tiny country's safe survival.
Hands joined in prayer A mighty storm named Melissa meanders As the wrath of nature descends Breaths held - watching - anticipating
By Novel Allen4 months ago in Poets
Chaos Theory: Through the Keyhole of Politics and godless men.
🗝️ “The Keyhole” - Part political allegory, part terror of a woeful descent into chaos. In the Beginning: There was Good and there was Evil.
By Novel Allen5 months ago in Fiction
Beyond 'IF'. I dream - not making dreams my master.
If By Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
By Novel Allen5 months ago in Humans
I am Poe's Black Cat
Let’s slip back into the shadowed corners of Poe’s tale, but now through my feline eyes: the witness, the familiar, the silent chronicler of descent. Here's a tale most terrible, steeped in dread and poetic irony.
By Novel Allen5 months ago in Fiction
Ample behinds
The museum offered a hefty prize, for a pic of the worthiest, most winsome painting of an ass (Pardon my French) The hunt was on for the most attractive behind painted for their next display upon the hallowed, very pricy walls
By Novel Allen5 months ago in Poets