INTRODUCING LAURA ' THE PHOENIX'

ENTERING INTO LAURA'S WORLD

Laura is a special poet with an amazing message which she translates through her poetry. Her recent collaboration and feature with International Best Selling Poet, Joseph Spencer has generated so much buzz around her art and hence her unique alias, ' The Phoenix' 

Please sit back as we take a deep dive into how poetry all started for Laura and her journey so far

 Laura:

Writing has been this secret Love of mine since I was a teenager. But I was'nt old enough to understand why I would keep being drawn back to the pages. I have had Anorexia since I was 14, way more than half my life and so long that I struggle to remember who I was without it.

 One day I picked up a pen, one of the support workers had suggested writing a diary, I soon got bored of that but found myself writing poems instead. Poems upon poems started falling like a Literary waterfall from my pen to paper. After feeling such hate for myself and not understanding anything I was feeling, a poem could make me sit back and feel a little spark of possibility that I was maybe good at it. I wanted to be vulnerable; I was desperate to communicate, I had been desperate for 23years for someone to hear Me.  So I laid it all bare on through rhyme.

Slowly, but surely, through the power of words, I felt less alone. I have accepted I will always be emotionally more sensitive than some. I will cry in public when I get overwhelmed by normal life things. But I am here, learning new feelings and I am writing!  As one of my poems go  ' I have read a poem or two that has made me feel less alone, the power of vulnerability can give a lost mind a home'

I hope you all have enjoyed this beautiful insight into Laura's story and have taken inspiration from her doggedness and perseverance, all due to the love she has for poetry.

by  Kindness Thompson