Re: Poets

“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”
                                                              ― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

spring

1972 by pd lyons/ thanks to dave evon for finding this

to be carried away

we were made for this

from Still Wishing To Be Ravens, by pdlyons

 

 

 

The Other Days

 

unsettled

grey rains across the lake

even the fire duller now

as if unable to breathe

 

your absence

airless

and without remedy

 

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

 

Catzen

 

Every moment

Of sunlight

The cat

Knows

Just what to do

 

~~~~~~~~~~~

 

Shelly Gone To America

 

Rain whispers

Through my open window

Night again

Without you

 

C 2009 pdlyons poetry

Fiction By PDLyons

salamanders green – a fiction

 

 

 

a coming of age drama of the 70′s & 80′s. trials and emotional trauma of teenage artist/writer in small town new england.

 

 

 

 

 

http://pdlyons-salamandersafiction.blogspot.com/

Contains adult themes of sexual and terrible words of English language as well as swear words and a possibility of lions and tigers and bears – oh my! And if that were not enough then beware of cigarette smoking and the taking of substances for the mere sake of pleasure and fun.

Not Fit For Puritan Ethic Award

excellent quality magazine well worth the read

http://issuu.com/railroadpoetryproject/docs/issue2/1

 

An Achill cottage industry

An Achill cottage industry.

 

BOOKS: Achill Island seems an unlikely base for a Belgian and South Korean book artist duo, yet that’s where Franticham decided to set up. ANDY DEVANE finds out what drew them there…

from The Irish Times

give it a few more days

Project Summary

Wanting To Be In The Old Tongue: poems related to an Irish descent Authored by PD Lyons

List Price: $10.00

6″ x 9″ (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on Cream paper
80 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1466272996
ISBN-10: 1466272996
BISAC: Poetry / American / General

modern poetry related to Irish and Celtic and Modern themes

pd lyons newest collection is now available!!

Rumours of Another Summer

Authored by PD Lyons

Modern Irish American poetry of a very fine sort

Publication Date:

Jul 27 2011

ISBN/EAN13:

1463769288 / 9781463769284

Page Count:

126

Binding Type:

US Trade Paper

Trim Size:

6″ x 9″

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Related Categories:

Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

 

 

List Price: $10.00

https://www.createspace.com/3661364

why do i like vox poetica? they have impeccable taste in poetry.

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 always cool

By the reservoir

In the pines

Up some stairs tucked into angular corners

Warm winter kitchens smelling of gas

Down by the factories

Not sleeping all night

Into a morning of crisp clean cold

Out on the back door landing

Three flights below the city without fear we knew

PD Lyons’ most recent poem to appear here was I Thought You Were in Another Room That Wasn’t There (May 2011).

      

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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 There

By PD Lyons

Across from the end of the bed

Kitchen draped in honey glow

Just as I was drifting off

Clang & Patter

Pots & Pans

Wondering what it was that you’d be cooking

Turned my head saw nothing there

      

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PD Lyons Poetry Project

vox poetica contributor PD Lyons has announced his new poetry project and he needs YOUR help! The idea is to post a bunch of videos on YouTube of people reading his poetry. You can find his poetry here in the poemblog (search using the advanced search button and make sure you click title and contents and all), in some of the vox anthologies, and at his blog. You can see his invitation to join the project here. I’m going to do this and so should you!       

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Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone, Another Summer

Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone

Another Summer

By PD Lyons

95 degrees

4th of July

Connecticut

Bare Trees, Winter Night; oldie not so familiar says the radio

this is age

& what it’s like

& how is there anything else now?

But poplars silver

still sounds like rain

quick sand springs still stream

maples shade deep gorge brooks

high stones circle the pool

of where going down to the horse bones

we were kids

PD’s most recent poem to appear at vox poetica was Wordsilk, which was published as part of Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words.

      

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Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words, Wordsilk

 

Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words

Wordsilk

By PD Lyons

reminding me of words like

border line

crescent coyote

ancient timbers

polished smooth as kisses

paradise

abandoned eyes of ship-wrecked sailors

myriad pin prick suns

flightless birds

something Spanish that you

said along a twilight

turquoise

Ishmael to Ishmael

all the nights we’ve ever known

not bothering the quiet

PD Lyons made his most recent appearance at vox poetica in August 2010 with Perennials.

      

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Perennials

PD Lyons last offering to us was the evocative Loch Lene. Today’s poem is similarly rich in images but even more spare in language. Do you garden? You may find yourself considering what your plants know of you the next time you’re digging in their beds.

Perennials

By PD Lyons

Perennials

rooted

in

their

long

term

memory

impressions of

your hands

and knees

      

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Loch Lene

PD Lyons started writing poetry long long ago in the dream time when he was 12; he has continued ever since. His work has been published in magazines and he’s had two books published by Lapwing Press. He is originally from Connecticut and is living currently in Ireland. You can keep up with him by visiting his blog. This poem delivers splendid imagery with few words.

Loch Lene

(for Shelly)

By PD Lyons

Undulate of diamond silhouettes

North wind skirts a pirouette

Past a fishing heron

Fingerling samurai silver shadow breath

Quiet so deep it echoes

Not one golden dream left behind

You’re where I’m gonna be forever