Lavinia Thompson
Poem: Wreckage and Ashes
Sometimes rain whispers gently across prairies, upon wildflower petals, soaking the earth, quenching a thirst for life; soaking me with...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 22, 2022
January Writing Prompts 13
"Make Me Whole" Sometimes pieces don’t realign as envisioned. Sometimes they crumble to pile up as dust. Or they crack and shatter across...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 22, 2022
January Writing Prompts 12
"Empty Tomorrows" We are ghosts of empty tomorrows; the bleak grey hues overshadowing the sun waiting for light to break through, waiting...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 12, 2022
January Writing Prompts
10: #sixwordstory He wrecked her. She rose again. Image by Catharina77 from Pixabay
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 12, 2022
January Writing Prompt 9
"From The Outside" To live from the outside is to drive headlong into every orange-dusted sunset; a twisting highway with no destination...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 10, 2022
January Writing Prompts 8
"Forever" It’s a blessing and a curse that we don’t live forever. We remain whilend yet days seem like years, years like days, and...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 7, 2022
January Writing Prompts 6
"Grey Skies" I dwelt with dreariness, staring up into blue-grey clouds wondering if that day was when I ended things, immobilized in a...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 6, 2022
January Writing Prompts 5: Haiku
"Forweary" Ensorcell me now before I divagate off, weary of it all. Image by Markus Spiske from Pixabay
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 5, 2022
January Writing Prompts 4: Surrender
Surrender to the heart which yearns to be unapologetic. Let thunder's brontide awaken recklessness, rumbles across a horizon, rain...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 4, 2022
January Writing Prompt 3
The Fire within An atrabilious night in which I gave up; scintillating stars somehow melancholic and mopey. The ebony, edacious, devoured...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 2, 2022
January Writing Prompts 2
Day 2: Angels Fall We can’t all be angels. Even they fall, entangled in white silk, stars and clouds carrying the world when it hits a...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jul 29, 2019
Mid-Fall Upon a Deathly Shoreline
I drove until the morning light greeted my rearview, drawing fractures of my heart from beneath the night where the truth left shards of...
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Lavinia Thompson
Apr 16, 2019
Seldom
It was the night I set my heart down before you, in all it’s eloquent fragments; the night you stomped them to shards, saying it no...
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Lavinia Thompson
Apr 7, 2019
Prompt 6 - Current
Stop that. Stop telling yourself that having a partner in your life is the only thing that matters. After being in a couple of long term...
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Lavinia Thompson
Apr 7, 2019
Prompt 5 - Floats
It floats; this singular heartstring, some sort of flow following beats upon wind. There’s a rhythm out there somewhere trying to drag me...
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Lavinia Thompson
Apr 4, 2019
Prompt 3: Leaps
You don’t have to go vaulting off a cliff, wincing at the crunch of every bone to come back down to earth. Sometimes breaking yourself...
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Lavinia Thompson
Apr 4, 2019
Prompt 2 - Bird
Runaway Bird A heart like a runaway bird flapping frantically, wings that can’t escape this town fast enough. A plumage hued like...
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Lavinia Thompson
Apr 2, 2019
Caged - a poetry challenge for April
I am trying out this challenge for April that's circulating on Tumblr - a month of prompts inspired by the poetry of the amazing Maya...
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Lavinia Thompson
Feb 8, 2019
New poem ~ Patchwork Wings
You stuck a pin through a butterfly, yet promised she deserved the best, a slight stroke along her delicate wings of velvet, she was...
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Lavinia Thompson
Dec 30, 2018
New poem ~ Montage
You couldn’t give me shelter when a hurricane crumbled in with gusts irate enough to send solid bones trembling. Yet stoic you stood...
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