Thursday, June 28, 2012

Why we like Pyrokinection & Jellyfish Whispers




pd,
 
I am pleased to tell you that your poem, “only august” is slated for publication on Jellyfish Whispers on July 29th.  Additionally, your poem “belize” is slated for publication on Pyrokinection on September 10th.  I am going to pass on the other piece this time.  I will email you again when your poems go live on our sites.
 
Thanks again for your support of our new projects.  And please be sure to stop by our new mother site, http://www.kindofahurricanepress.com/, and check out our call for submissions for our first anthology!
 
A.J. Huffman
editor, Pyrokinection
editor, Jellyfish Whispers
 

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

This Kitchen Poem

 This kitchen
Soft smoke secrets
Each ghost upon the gale
Welcome here
Each breath
Rare and gifted by such drifters
Visible in smoke
Audible in flame
Never alone.





original work by pd lyons

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Kind of a Hurricane Press: Anthologies

Kind of a Hurricane Press: Anthologies: Backlit Barbell , our first anthology, invites original and previously unpublished poetry to its pages. . . Deadline for Submissions:  ...

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Pyrokinection: Submission Guidelines

Pyrokinection: Submission Guidelines: Pyrokinection invites original and previously unpublished poetry to its pages. . . Send one to three works  in the body of an email to:...

Friday, June 22, 2012

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

2 more from Ravens



I know forever is the memory of your touch

Angels with broken wings
I taste the sin they bring
I want to cling to them
But something always haunts me
.
Lust that is true,
Dreams that have gone astray
Down every road you know there’s really nothing much to choose
The siren’s sweet lament
Their spell is my intent
But there’s something in my head denying my attempt
A kind of howling sound says I am pledged to you
.
I cross the thousand years
Part the veil of tears
Despite the demon fears
I’m reaching out for you
And breaking through at last
The circle finally cast
Kneeling down I bow my head to you
My sword at your feet
My crown on your lap
My heart into you hands
I am my Lady’s man
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Balreask

Earliest morning I been up
Since we got here
Out in the garden Qi gong cup of tea
One crow on the aerial above the chimney
Is that you ?
Is that really you Maeve?
Yes you are sleek and shiny really beautiful today.
Tilts her head towards me
As if surprised
Then clucks a few syllables in return.

Can we stay Maeve? Can we make our home here
Well not exactly here but in this country. Are we really coming home?
She leans further towards me, opens and closes her beak, leans closer
then whistles three gutsy in her throat whistles & flies.

The grass needs tending
It just might rain
Beginning is the least I can do.
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Friday, June 15, 2012

the song that was in my head all morning beofre i knew. for teddy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s5n47GDDSg


Grateful Dead I Know You Rider Lyrics

Songwriters: KAUKONEN, JORMA

I know you, rider, gonna miss me when Im gone;
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when Im gone;
Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms.

Laid down last night, lord, I could not take my rest;
Laid down last night, lord, I could not take my rest;
My mind was wandering like the wild geese in the west.

The sun will shine in my back door someday.
The sun will shine in my back door someday.
March winds will blow all my troubles away.

I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train;
I wish I was a headlight, on a north bound train;
Id shine my light through cool colorado rain.


I know you, rider, gonna miss me when Im gone;
I know you, rider, gonna miss me when Im gone;
Gonna miss your baby, from rolling in your arms.

[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/grateful+dead/i+know+you+rider_20062367.html ]

I Know You Rider lyrics © EMI Music Publishing


from europe '72

for tedra l plane





Briefly
as everything is in this life
we shared slapstick
and manic
some
unforgettable
wonders
and still all those questions never to be answered
now knowing this
something quiet
peace descends
a lacy feel of breath
not deep
not in or out
but
there
.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

3 from Wanting To Be In The Old Tongue - by pd lyons

WORSHIP SWANS NO LONGER

When you worship swans no longer
Will you find your way to me?
Smoke rising in a breathless voice
Winding between shade and sun
A dream begun on dew drops
Daring midday like a ghost
Vowing never to fly
From your embrace

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LITTLE SADIE

black velvet traveller
dark morning herald
solitary secrets kept
well behind green eyes
alluded only by such offerings
as left upon our doorstep shrine.




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VIRGINIA, CO. CAVAN ’98

winter wash
sails on hemp rigging
 places precious
this January sun.
strong wind, clear sailing,
a rising Tahitian blue,
fed by silver slips of memory
travelling on wings of fantasy
calling sea birds soar
above a mucky barking back yard dog.






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from Wanting To Be In The Old Tongue
poems of an Irish descent
by pd lyons
Copyright © 2011 PD Lyons
All rights reserved.
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ISBN-10: 1466272996
pdlyonspoet@yahoo.co.uk

Friday, June 1, 2012

Bone Orchard Poetry: PD Lyons-

Bone Orchard Poetry: PD Lyons-: Last Poem Before Oregon Slept in groves of oranges Visited by only wet nurse bees Shaded by impossible leaves Clouds the d...

from: Still Wishing To Be Ravens - by pd lyons







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



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