Author: Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

Alina Happy Hansen is a writer, poet, and blogger based in San Francisco. Besides writing nearly 24/7 and reading stacks of books, Alina enjoys watching classic horror films and listening to Stoner Metal. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in English with a Minor in Writing and Rhetoric Studies from The University of Utah.

Freehand Poem #26: Working to Survive

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet1 Comment

I’ve been thinking about issues such as minimum wage and the wage gap for women lately.

This is some scribblings in response.

 

Worn out and torn up. The skin begins to crease,

in lines of worry, lines of hunger and fear. We are

trodden on, under foot as they walk all over us.

How much do we have to work? Until our knuckles

bleed? Until our backs break? There is no relief.

There is no end.

 

If you are reading this Thank You for taking time out of your day to read my writing!

I hope that you will return in the future!

-Alina

Coming Soon! Book Review: The Complete Poems of Ernest Hemingway

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

HELLO!

This is just a brief announcement that I am working on a reflection on the book of poems that I just recently finished.

(image: amazon.com)

The Complete Poems of Ernest Hemingway

In my reflection I will be discussing my favorite poems in the collection and why. I am also thinking of comparing a few select poems to key works of Hemingway’s such as ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, ‘A Moveable Feast’ and ‘The Sun Also Rises’.

I hope to have this reflection complete and posted on my blog by the end of the week (June 18th)!

Again I thank you all for reading my work! and I hope that you enjoy this upcoming reflection!

-Alina

 

p.s. Heads up, I am almost done with Pinsky’s Singing School, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from my Fiction and Poetry Summer Reading Lists. I also plan on doing short reflections on these. 

Freehand Poem #25

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

Rainy weather this week in SLC. I love it! Finally some relief from all that heat!

 

Your words drop like ice against my skin. Forcing your way into

the creases of my heart, trying to find any way in. Hoping I will

crack, and break. Hoping that I will become weak and give in.

I let it all slide over me. Invading my heart, invading my soul

but I will not give in. I will not give in. My fire burns on.

A flame that cannot be snuffed out.

 

If you are reading this, Thank You for taking time out of your day to read my writing!

I hope that you will return in the future!

-Alina

When Words Lose Meaning: Flash Fiction Series #3

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

Here is a rough version of a Flash Fiction piece I am working on.

 

approx. word count: 130

When Words Lose Meaning

by

Alina Happy Hansen

 

His eyes are black, she drones on, picking up her wine glass. Sips and mutters something under her breath. Her beauty blossoms in the candlelight but her words are poison, tarnishing her image. He wonders how such a beautiful woman could be so cruel. After weeks of being with this woman he has found himself growing more and more disgusted by her. Suddenly her freckles become abrasive markings, her lips stained and creased, her teeth yellow and her eyes, a dark abyss that swallows him whole. Her image begins to slip in front of him as she reveal who she really is. In the end he will marry her because everyone admires her beauty but he will no longer value words and live a life of deceptive imagery.

 

If you are reading this Thank You for taking time out of your day to read my writing!

I hope that you will return in the future!

-Alina

 

Freehand Poem #24

Alina H. Hansen Writer & Poet

Can’t wait for summer to be over. The heat is unbearable and winter is sounding better and better.

 

Summer days end, and the hell in my heart

rages on. After the wind dies down, after the seas

calm into winter iciness. I am still full of the fire

from days long past. To calm my spirits, and sleep

in the winter, sleep through it all, to awaken

in spring once again. Fire to ice, ice to fire.

 

If you are reading this, Thank You for taking time out of your day to read my writing!

I hope that you will return in the future!

-Alina