Remnants of Severed Chains

By Kyrian Lyndon

Remnants of Severed Chains is a collection of over forty new poems by Kyrian Lyndon, author of A Dark Rose Blooms. This book continues with the same intensity as A Dark Rose, running the gamut of complex emotions that resonate with many. The author explains in the book’s preface that Remnants is about the process of healing and recovery, the willingness to learn and evolve. Thus, she embraces life’s astounding and most personal revelations—afflictions, addictions and relationships, the good and the bad, capturing life’s most devastating moments along with its celebratory moments of beauty and joy.

In the poem “What Might Have Been”, she writes:

The robin in your tender heart
Hungers for the red berry
That titillates your tongue.
She carols as the snow falls—
And not with the chorus of the dawn
In radiant spring.
What might have been?
Your voice silenced,
The spirit of you
Destroyed,
I see glimpses of your fire
From the light that has vanished
From your eyes.
Your wings soar,
Only not to follow
Your heart.
Whatever the passion,
Let it burn.
It will save you.

Kyrian’s exceptional handling of language to create vivid images has won her high praise. Rest assured, Remnants of Severed Chains is a uniquely moving experience that readers will enjoy.

Cover design by Jah Kaine via jerboa Design Studio.com

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kyrian Lyndon
• Release date: Oct 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310202506

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

PREFACE

I can’t be the first to acknowledge that life is a complicated mess, so often a beautiful mess where you can be happy, broken, and sad all at once. Who wouldn’t experience many moments of sadness being aware that someone is always in pain?

We are talking more about shame these days. We’re realizing the insidious intricacy of its tangled web—how far reaching it is and how much destruction it leaves in its wake. It happens to the vulnerable when their trust is so ready and their hearts are so new, when they are eager to love and receive love. There are many negative things we can communicate to vulnerable new hearts. Ordinarily, no one intends for them to perceive they are not worthy, not enough, not lovable, but the message comes through loud and clear. For many, it gets louder along the way. The fallout is constant and relentless.

So yeah, things happen.

In my early life, I never saw the trains coming. After a while, I was the train coming. I had unwittingly orchestrated my bondage.

Now and then, I would say, I just can’t do this anymore. But if I couldn’t do that anymore, I couldn’t do the other stuff either, the beautiful and amazing stuff, all the things that touched my heart and permeated my being with joy. That didn’t sit well with me.

It seems the first step is always to accept the reality of what