Awake with the Songbirds: Poems from the Pandemic

By Kyrian Lyndon

This collection consists primarily of poems written during the COVID-19 pandemic, a time of loneliness and rumination.

Lyndon’s poetry stems from intense emotions that swing from one end of the pendulum to the other as she captures the agony of love and loss, along with innocent joy and lighthearted fun.

Each poem is an earnest response to life, love, and everything in between.

WHAT READERS SAY

“She has the ability to convey to the reader some of the most complex thoughts into words that truly reach our hearts.”— Love Books

“Her lyric voice speaks with careful observation and passion. In the narrative mode, she is masterful in reading life around her. Kyrian possesses the sensitivity, insight, and soul of the true poet. Her writing provides a primer on how to compose meaningful poetry.”—Lou Jones

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kyrian Lyndon
• Release date: Jul 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005029937

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.

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Kyrian Lyndon

Awake with the Songbirds

Poems from the Pandemic

AWAKE WITH THE SONGBIRDS

Copyright © May 15, 2021 by Kyrian Lyndon

All rights reserved.

Cover art by KH Koehler Design

No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews, and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

Paperback ISBN: 9798516167249

Contents

What Readers Are Saying:

OTHER BOOKS BY KYRIAN LYNDON

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PREFACE

PART 1: ISOLATION

THESE DAYS

GOING HOME

DAWN OF THE DAY

SAME OLD NEIGHBORHOOD

MY FRIEND

CLEANSING TEARDROPS

APART

THE NIGHT

ONE LOVE

IT’S JUST HOME

SKY

BURN

SIX FEET AWAY

THE HEART SINGS

PAIN

DESPONDENCE OF WINTER

IDIOCY

BROKEN CHAINS

WAILS OF DISTRESS

RISE

PART 2: NOSTALGIA

GHOSTS

END OF THE ROAD

SEASHELLS AND STARFISH

STRAW YELLOW BEER

PACT

INNOCENCE

GODSPEED

NOT EVERYONE LIKES YOU BACK

FOR THE BEAUTY

LEAVE HER ALONE

ARROZ CON POLLO

BEAST

LETTING GO

ADIÓS

MISSPENT YOUTH

PIP AND NICHOLAS

THE OLD LIFE

OZ

CHASING OTTO

PART 3: MISCHIEF

THE FLAME

FEARLESS SURRENDER (SHADOWS OF MY SOUL)

ARTIST

EUPHORIA

UNMERCIFUL

DALLIANCE

SILLY DREAM

STANDSTILL

DUPLICITOUS

UNDER YOU

THE EVE

IT’S CHOCOLATE!

PART 4: HOPE

A WOMAN FROM THE CARIBBEAN

HOPEFUL

THE EXHILARATED GLORY OF BEING

A LIGHT IN THE DARK

SHE STOOD ALONE ON THE EDGE OF DARKNESS

JIMMY

GLORY

THE ONLY

AND I FELT DRENCHED IN LOVE

YOU ARE THE SUN

GARDEN OF WISDOM

PRECIOUS SOUL

BOND

WE GO ON

ALIVE AGAIN

CROSSING SWORDS

APRICOT ROSES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

What Readers Are Saying:

She has the ability to convey to the reader some of the most complex thoughts into words that truly reach our hearts.

~ Love Books

Her lyrical voice speaks with careful observation and passion. In the narrative mode, she is masterful in reading life around her. Kyrian possesses the sensitivity, insight, and soul of the true poet. Her writing provides a primer on how to compose meaningful poetry.

~ Lou Jones

OTHER BOOKS BY KYRIAN LYNDON

For Jesse and Jimmy, always.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you, K.H. Koehler, for your editing, your friendship, and your beautiful design work and formatting for Awake with the Songbirds.

Thank you, too, Nitin Sharma, for your input

and lovely encouragement.

Thank you, as always, Jesse,

for your encouragement and support.

And thank you to everyone in my life

for your never-ending patience with me.

PREFACE

THE PANDEMIC AND other events have been traumatic for the entire world. So many of you have suffered unimaginable losses. My heart is with everyone everywhere.

As for me, well, writing has undoubtedly gotten me through it. For whatever reason,