A Dark Rose Blooms

By Kyrian Lyndon

This collection of thirty poems by novelist Kyrian Lyndon spans decades throughout the author’s personal journey. From the soothingly peaceful to the bizarre, Kyrian runs the gamut of complex emotions that will resonate for many. The poems are poignant—honest, open, and straight from the heart, heartbreaking and with humor, embracing light and dark, hope and despair, triumph over adversity.

She writes:

Oh, for the beauty of the melody,
The harmony sprinkled about.
He is but a glowing midge
Longing to play an Aeolian harp,
While holding you still and entranced
With the celestial beauty of a god.
Ah, but for the pain!
The seraphic master sets about casting shadows
So that I cannot see the sun,
Leaving but a vista of tomorrow’s joys and treasures.
The current focus becomes a precursor
Along the predestined path,
A traverse on the bridge.
That’s my all-too-rigid honeybee,
Leaving me with a concave and sunken universe,
A hollow path in my heart and my soul.

‘A Dark Rose Blooms’ also contains an excerpt from ‘Provenance of Bondage,’ the first book of Kyrian’s forthcoming ‘Deadly Veils’ series. We meet the series protagonist, Danielle DeCorso, as she tries to cope with a devastating event she can’t fully remember. She struggles in isolation and despair, as her perception of what she does recall differs from that of her cousin and her friend.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kyrian Lyndon
• Release date: Jan 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311263186

Kyrian Lyndon

Kyrian Lyndon is the author of Shattering Truths, the first book in her Deadly Veils series. She has published two poetry collections, A Dark Rose Blooms, and Remnants of Severed Chains, as well as several articles for Rebelle Society and The Voice of Literature e-zines.She is the founder and publisher of Moonlit Dawn Publications and Brave Wings magazine and also the editor-in-chief of Brave Wings. Brave Wings magazine promotes healing and empowerment through the written word. “Its focus,” she says, “is on the human condition—whatever we experience in life that helps us learn, grow, and evolve.”Kyrian has worked in executive-level positions, particularly with major New York publishing companies, including McGraw-Hill Book Company and John Wiley & Son Publishers.She is forthcoming about being a person with many years of recovery, as well as a trauma survivor. Throughout her journeys, she has expressed her thoughts through poetry, embracing every challenge to triumph over adversity. In her conviction that learning, growing, healing, and evolving is a never-ending process, she remains as grateful for the dark days as she is for every flicker of hope and light. Her passion for awareness advocacy and sharing insight motivates her to entertain in ways that provoke, enrich, and inspire.Born and raised in Woodside, Queens, New York, Kyrian was the middle of three daughters born to immigrants—her father from Campochiaro, Italy; her mother from Havana, Cuba.She began writing short stories and fairy tales when she was just eight years old. In her adolescence, she moved on to poetry. At sixteen, while working as an editor for her high school newspaper, she wrote her first novel and then completed two more books at the ages of nineteen and twenty-five.Kyrian has always been passionate about music (all kinds). She loves nineteenth-century British literature, parallel universe fiction, thrillers, horror, and dark romanticism. She is also devoted to fitness which is a must, she says, if you enjoy cooking (and eating) as much as she does.

Book preview

FOREWORD

Over the past couple of years, my friendship with Kyrian Lyndon has grown through our many discussions about growing up within five miles of each other as children. We shared laughs about attending Catholic school—the uniforms we had to wear, how the nuns used to scare us, and the insecurities we developed while growing up.

We discovered we’d both visited Forest Park in Queens, New York, a favorite place of all teenagers, on many occasions. While I don’t remember our paths ever crossing during this period, I feel I’ve known her my entire life.

When she told me she wanted to publish her poetry, I took great interest in her project. I grew excited for several reasons. Poetry is where the words bleed onto the page. You get an inner view of the poet’s heart and soul. Since I’ve known her, Kyrian has struck me as a person who has many emotions to share, both poignant and deep; lessons learned; and lessons still unfolding.

Poetry is a relationship with the reader. It can be complicated, as in her poem Mangled Wings, or it can be quite simple, as in Parade. She ponders whether someday we will unite to forge goodwill among all. She speaks freely and with sadness about relationships. The emotion of despair overwhelms your heart as you read.

There is light among the darkness; she also has a sweet sense of humor. The wonderful work Silly Dream provides us with these everlasting thoughts: Where do these odd dreams come from? How can we have more?

Kyrian includes the emotional Armored in this terrific selection of poems, remembering her father in the most heroic way. I wonder if he ever heard the words Kyrian wrote. If so, what did he think? These words are quite beautiful and poignant.

The poetry will touch your heart. You will learn more about who she is as a person, what tugs at her heart, and what makes her soul sing.

Kyrian also provides an excerpt of her soon-to-be-published series, Deadly Veils, which is full of colorful images as she creates scenes like a painter on a street corner in France. These reflections flow off the page and embrace your mind, encouraging your senses to come alive from the