Lauren is an 18-year-old Junior at Christopher Newport University where she studies English in pursuit of a Masters of Arts degree in Teaching.
She has been writing poetry since her age fit on her fingers, but has just recently fallen back in love with the art.
Her poetry is inspired by her own life - family, friends, falling in love, heartbreak, disappointment, excitement, and her relationship with Christ. Poetry is her diary - a way to express the things she's feeling and to come to terms with the wild world that races inside her mind. It is raw, it is honest, it is at times brutal and crushing, but it is her poetry, and is thus her baby.
Read and relate - this is the life and poetry of L.B.
I may not have the most striking features
The sharpest jaw
The biggest eyes
The fullest lips
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A friend in times of trouble
Always a listening ear
And when something good happens
You're always the first to hear
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In rainy days or sunshine,
I will still be here
Even if you are 'fine'
I'll listen to every fear
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I miss the way your cheeks blush
Like roses blooming from a porcelain jaw
Or how you'd look around after telling a joke
Like a child peeking, thinking no one saw
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I love the way you look at me
With intensity that could blind
As if nothing in the world matters
I'm the only thing on your mind
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