PD Lyons Poetry Project

God Lights a Cigarette On the wood, shadows. Down the windows, hazy through the drapes spills the rain. The night, curving rolling with motion still whispers with winters needley lips: everything is passing through me. There is you with your joy – me, I’m trying to find depressions, though I’m not sure what I feel. [...]

Almost Finished W/ Latest

Project Summary Rumours of Another Summer Authored by PD Lyons List Price: $10.00   6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm) Black & White on White paper 106 pages   ISBN-13: 978-1463769284 (CreateSpace-Assigned) ISBN-10: 1463769288 BISAC: Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh modern Irish American poetry  

ROGER MARIS/ To: Baseball Hall of Fame Veterans Committee

To:  Baseball Hall of Fame Veterans Committee We, the undersigned, as fans and admirers of baseball legend Roger Maris, wish to see him inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as soon as possible. We believe that Roger has earned a spot in the Hall of Fame for reasons including, but not limited to, the [...]

thank you annemarie and vox poetica

I Thought You Were in Another Room That Wasn’t There PD Lyons’ most recent poem to appear here was Another Summer, published as part of Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone. He is working on a really cool video project. To learn more about it, click here. I Thought You Were in Another Room That Wasn’t [...]

thank you vox poetica

http://poemblog.voxpoetica.com/2011/07/20/contributor-series-9-if-men-had-ears-when-i-wrote-new-songs-and-you-would-listen-out-of-friendship.aspx           Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears,  When I wrote new songs and you would listen out of friendship By PD Lyons   Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears When I wrote new songs and you would listen out of friendship By PD Lyons   Where we were [...]

morgan’s good news

On Thu, 7/14/11, Louisville Review <LouisvilleReview@spalding.edu> wrote: From: Louisville Review <LouisvilleReview@spalding.edu> Subject: your poem in TLR To: “mandplyons@yahoo.com” <mandplyons@yahoo.com> Date: Thursday, July 14, 2011, 6:16 PM Hello, Morgan,   We are delighted to publish your poems “Spring Day of Nature, ” “At the Beach” and “Magic” in the Fall 2011 issue of The Louisville Review! [...]

accepted by the corner club press

Dear PD Lyons, I am pleased to inform you that your poem “Canada” has been selected for publication in the The Corner Club Press.  Congratulations!  Our third issue will be published on July 15th, 2011.  We encourage you to continue to submit your work to our magazine for future issues. Please send a brief bio to [...]

bed poem yesterdays

Effortless rising After effortless sleep After hours of love Still in each others arms Not needing to shower or brush teeth Kiss & Kiss & Kiss Again

Bed Poem Today

Sometimes angels sang in his head as he lay across the aubergine and green bed   Sometimes the sun danced elliptical  edging his cup fingers tap tapping cosmical coded eclipses   Sometimes the day just began this way open windows white  blinds even traffic softer as if the dust of dark ages shed and unknown [...]