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Blog by Lavinia Thompson
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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
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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
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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...
Lavinia Thompson
Jan 2, 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Lavinia Thompson
Feb 17, 2017
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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...

Lavinia Thompson
Feb 10, 2017
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