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Blog by Lavinia Thompson
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Musings ~ A Sign of Life
Eventually you have to be unafraid of yourself and who you’re becoming. To embrace the signs of life stirring within, showing that a...
Lavinia Thompson
Aug 3, 2019


Musings: This is my Meadow
Sometimes I'm living my life in a rearview mirror. There are so many moments here and now I should be living for. Soaking in. Because...
Lavinia Thompson
Mar 8, 2019


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...
Lavinia Thompson
Dec 30, 2018


More #Preptober!
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...
Lavinia Thompson
Oct 16, 2018


#Preptober for Nanowrimo - Days 1 & 2
So, due to last year being overwhelming with the divorce, I did not participate in Nanowrimo last year, after three consecutive years of...
Lavinia Thompson
Oct 3, 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...
Lavinia Thompson
Jul 31, 2018


Letter to Chester Bennington
Dear Chester; I’ll never tell him how much I cried that day. How, as he pulled out of the driveway and disappeared, I collapsed, a...
Lavinia Thompson
Jul 24, 2018


Another year older...
Twenty-nine isn’t old. But on the odd rainy spring night when I get home from work, I sit back in my favourite orange chair with a...
Lavinia Thompson
May 10, 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...
Lavinia Thompson
Mar 19, 2018


Pages Keep Turning
Pages keep turning. Every light of a cigarette. Every drop of vodka at the bottom of a glass. Slipping over ice precariously yet...
Lavinia Thompson
Feb 20, 2018


Musings ~ Love Engrained
I found myself staring into something terrifying today. At the bottom of the barrel. Scraping the fragments of my dating pool on a free...
Lavinia Thompson
Dec 28, 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...
Lavinia Thompson
Dec 27, 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,...
Lavinia Thompson
Dec 21, 2017


Empty Speed
Outrunning memories, barreling down back roads, past Alberta fields barren. Speed; adrenaline; hammer down. Something endless ahead,...
Lavinia Thompson
Dec 16, 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,...
Lavinia Thompson
Nov 26, 2017


The Crumbling Pillar
Some things are simply meant to be. That doesn’t make it any easier to endure and let go. Some days are too long and some nights are too...
Lavinia Thompson
Nov 16, 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...
Lavinia Thompson
Nov 9, 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...
Lavinia Thompson
Oct 26, 2017


Pieces of Me, Repaired
Sometimes the pieces fall into place in a moment so minuscule, it passes right by. For me, it was a night so clear, the stars were...
Lavinia Thompson
Sep 19, 2017


Snapping Heartstring
My apologies for seemingly abandoning my blog posts. I am a terrible blogger, apparently. About a month ago, I decided to finally combat...
Lavinia Thompson
May 1, 2017
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