Lauren

Biography

I'm a third year student of Creative Writing, specialising in poetry. I also illustrate and make music.

Samples

The Hand Collector I am thirteen. In awe of the girl who sits next to me in Geography class with hands far beyond her age; a maze of canyons that snake across the plains of palms and merge into riverbeds of heart lines, life lines. Skin tanned from living more in thirteen years than I know I will ever achieve. I am ten. A gurgling marshmallow is placed with the greatest care into my lap. I am old enough now to be trusted to look after brand new and pillowy-plump hands, an invisible elastic band segregates arm from palm. Hands that are yet to tell stories, but are pink and honest strings of sausages. I am eight. Transfixed, I watch as blue-grey veins appear to dance across hands that move an electric whisk into thick batter with more ferocity than the off-white, paper thin skin should be able to manage.

All poems are copyright of the originating author. Permission must be obtained before using or performing others' poems.

Blog entries by Lauren

They Need to Up My Meds (14/10/2012)

Dear Facebook (27/09/2012)

Blog link: https://www.writeoutloud.net/blogs/lauren