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Day 14 Week Two Check-in Week two finds me playing a lot of catch up once again. Weekends seem to steal my writing time. I’m about...
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Lavinia Thompson
Oct 10, 2018
Preptober Days 7-9
Preptober Day 7 Week One Check In As always, I am behind! This past weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving. Between becoming single again on...
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Lavinia Thompson
Oct 4, 2018
#Preptober for Nanowrimo - Days 3 and 4
Goals Naturally, the annual Nanowrimo goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days in the month of November. But for many writers, that...
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Lavinia Thompson
Aug 10, 2018
Enraptured in Simplicity
He is gentle. There are no sharp words grazing over veins, no daggers from the roof of his mouth to beat me down. There are only pieces...
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Lavinia Thompson
Aug 1, 2018
Hearts Afire
Dive bar nights, neon lights, cigarette smoke, maybe a toke of something a little strong. Dance in the parking lot to an old song, this...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jul 31, 2018
Blood Moon in my Rearview
A long way from the truth is where you stranded me, like snake skin left in dirt, bitter words from fatal fangs. Thought your poison...
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Lavinia Thompson
Apr 18, 2018
New poem ~ Calm of a Star
A lone star over a train yard at midnight, guiding home a runaway heart. Your cigarettes still linger leftover in the ashtray; blue eyes...
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Lavinia Thompson
Mar 19, 2018
New poem ~ Shelter
Adoration of you renders me terrified. I don’t know how you see so deeply, so sharply, these fragments, this patchwork. Me and my smart...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 2, 2018
2018 - Back to the Gypsy
This year. I ended my marriage. My entire world crumbled around me. I found myself looking around lost. I didn't know where to go. My...
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Lavinia Thompson
Dec 27, 2017
Poem ~ Ashes
Two shattered goodbyes later where the word was never really said. Piles of boxes by the door, a strong drink and a cigarette, A yearning...
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Lavinia Thompson
Dec 21, 2017
Poem ~ Wanderlust
I want to run until wildflowers meet the horizon, a mere silhouette, shaking hands, terrified of starting over out where gypsies roam,...
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Lavinia Thompson
Dec 16, 2017
Empty Speed
Outrunning memories, barreling down back roads, past Alberta fields barren. Speed; adrenaline; hammer down. Something endless ahead,...
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Lavinia Thompson
Nov 26, 2017
Weekend poetry ~ Lotus
I am not broken. Rejection doesn’t make me unlovable. I am done living for a dream. It’s time to love me. I am a fucking lotus flower,...
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Lavinia Thompson
Nov 9, 2017
Free the Butterfly
They call it “butterflies” when you fall in love for a reason. When it all ends, it is what gets released into the world to move on. Like...
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Lavinia Thompson
Oct 26, 2017
New Poem ~ Sledgehammer
Crumbling bricks of this fortress after all these years. Let them crash around me, crawling in ashes, fighting for myself when the ghost...
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Lavinia Thompson
Mar 5, 2017
Weekend Poetry ~ Heart of Crushed Diamonds
You can crush me to dust; You’ll still find glitter remnants from this heart. I’ll scramble to salvage shards glinting silver in...
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Lavinia Thompson
Feb 17, 2017
Poetry Friday ~ Like Throwing Hockey Pucks at the Wall
It was like throwing hockey pucks at the wall watching shadows dance where holes crashed through. Don’t know where poems like this take...
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Lavinia Thompson
Feb 10, 2017
Poetry Friday ~ Somewhere in the Night
I only miss smoking cigarettes every now and then; a whimsical yearning to let something go when it’s beyond my control. Silvery ribbons...
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Lavinia Thompson
Jan 24, 2017
Chasing a Soul
I don’t know where she went. She walked out one day without me noticing. No clothes missing from the closet. No sound of a suitcase...
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