Lauren M. Hancock poetry and prose
A corner of my world where I feel most at home
Thank you so much to the amazing and kind-hearted Shruba for nominating me for the Sunshine Blogger Award! Shruba’s writing is beautiful and takes me on a journey into her world, always, and makes me feel like I want to stay just that little longer to linger in her world. She paints pictures so wonderfully [...]
I want to extend my sincerest thanks to you all: my blog now has over 400 followers! I am both so humbled and excited by this. I never would have thought when I started my site a year and a month ago that I would have so many fellow creatives interested in viewing my work. [...]
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A calm bear, sedated by the lulling nature of food, excessive within his belly, he can hide away more easily. He is fattened up, layered with furry clothing he’s eaten and fashioned for his form, each pair of bear-like track-pants or layered sweatshirts are perfectly suited to him. I am like this creature [...]
I am this soaring, colourful plastic kite, I was that ill-tempered now brightened woman, and occasionally I’ll surprise you and I with peals of unhindered laughter
There is hope if you look hard enough, Among the shadows that lurk and loom, No matter how difficult To discern, When our prying eyes have had enough, We spot that glimmer, That shimmer – A glistening snail’s trail Leading to that foreign place That certainly is not home But it calms you in a [...]
I feel it’s been a while since I’ve written a quality poem, Something to make me smile and feel pleased, Proud of myself for something sharp and sweet, Or lengthy but with purpose and a sense of growth and speed. There was a time when I researched and read, Many books of poetry I [...]
The afternoon calls to me, it begs for me to take advantage, a swimming sensation within my mind causes a wondering and I mentally wander: I do not have the energy for this. To explore the pathways, to join with other beings, to share their thoughts, feelings, and dreams, well, this is something undulating, [...]
I wonder what it would be to live like in the sea, surrounded by clown fish and anemones, and smiling jellyfish that could sting as they please. Floating past little krill and tiny bright fish, I consider what my role would be in this charming, pristine, cobalt, irreverent water. I rise up and down, parading [...]
I used to be a damsel in distress, I called and called to them, to assist me with my longing heart, yet all of them decided to leave. I worked so hard on being that which portrayed what I felt was visual worth, without understanding that what mattered was not essentially looks but a [...]
