Such sweet memories I recall
When the sun blinds my eye,
And bluebirds of joy and contentment cry.
The ones that are cold,
Frightening omens foretold,
I want to make them slip away,
Yet they’ll haunt me night and day.
Kyrian Lyndon
‘A Dark Rose Blooms’ available now on Amazon.com
For years, I have been hard at work on a fiction series that will include up to nine books. Since the series has been my main focus, I’ve been tempted to warn people ‘A Dark Rose Blooms’ is just a poetry book. Then I remember an older woman who had corrected me years ago as a teen when I said I was just a secretary. She said forget that word “just.” Just forget it.
She was right about that. I couldn’t imagine a world without poetry any more than I can imagine a world without novels. Its value is more than enough.
I was thinking, however, this seems to be a huge deal for such a little book. It is little. It was easy to throw together. I had all these poems sitting around for decades.
Well, it turned out to be a very special undertaking. I wrote some of these poems at age twenty, others only months ago. I came to realize, too; I was sharing my heart. For that matter, I would also be sharing the first two chapters of the first book in my series.
So by the time Jeff Fielder began working on the cover design, I wanted amazing. And I got amazing in terms of Jeff’s formatting and design. It’s now a beautiful little book.
I know my mom, of all people, would have been thrilled to see this day. She tucked away the first poems I wrote at ages ten and thirteen. Every so often, she’d take them out and read them, smiling and shaking her head, sometimes laughing a little. She passed away three years ago, but I can still see her smiling. I can feel it in my heart.
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Beautiful blog about your mom. It helped me remember my mom in a fond way this morning. Thank you.
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Thank you. 🙂
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I love the picture too 🙂
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I can’t begin to share how excited I too am for you are that your book is now out there to share and spread so much of your richness with all that read it. For sure your Mom is your number one fan and has been your number one cheerleader all the way. I believe she always is with you. Beautiful job and new beginnings dear lady.
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Thank you so much, Ellen! ❤
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