Bromsgrove Poems | Examples

Lauren Rowles

Lauren became paralysed suddenly overnight, 
When she developed firm transverse myelitis, 
An inflammation of the spinal cord, a huge fright, 
Which gave no feeling chest down, a mantis. 

Born 24 April 1998, she comes from Birmingham, 
In Bromsgrove District in the area Cotton Hackett,
Where she sat her A-levels which got her a gram, 
At Oxford Brookes Uni as a law undergraduate. 

Originally a wheelchair racer with many medals, 
At the junior level for sprinting and distance middle, 
She’s now in trunk and arms mixed double sculls, 
Coupling with Laurence Whitely to warmly griddle. 

Lauren only began the sport of rowing in 2015,
And rose through the ranks with speed and creed, 
In 2015 in France the pair won silver real clean, 
And in Rio they rowed to gold at tremendous speed.