Lauren M. Hancock poetry and prose
My corner of the world where I feel most at home: poetry, art, and prose.
I drag out my colours, many hues to create a show, A popularity contest? Or a forceful appearance? How will the audience react? Perhaps I already know. I begin to create, build the underpainting, of the basics of that face, that wide-eyed, mildly shocked expression that shows she’s realised something, or that [...]
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 [...]
The sun beams down upon me: he is happy with me today. Sometimes he is disappointed, other times he may be sorely dismayed. But I can tell from his loving warmth which spreads upon my complexion that today he is pleased with me, and the steps I am undertaking in my life to cause [...]
It’s like in your life the season is spring, everything is regenerating; all is coming to life again. The flower buds protrude, the birds in their nests become obsessed with their new fledgings. Parents anxiously feeding, fussing, brightness and flock of a feather becoming. Your heart swells at the feeling that you [...]
She joyously twirls bright ribbons yet feels dead inside, With a knowledge that what was once there, Fresh-faced, bright, youthful, still alive, Is now broken, irreparable, Scattered in pieces upon the stage, An urban pavement, Nothing to show for the destruction, No sense of inner pride or holding her head up high. Her dolly-brightness [...]
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