I found an old picture of you:your smile, shining with the joyof love’s delight;your eyes, focused on meas […]

A decade old –all the empty leaves now the playground of my thoughts ©Copyright Brendan E Byrne 2021. […]

I won’t send you poems any more –you have your own life nowand someone elseto sing you songs […]

I will not remember you.I refuse to recallthe curving of your waistthe laughter linesaround your mouththe clear pools […]

Every time you calla small portion of myselfdrains awayleaving behind a hollow huskthat was my heartand all my […]

I think I might be lonelywithout you –but somewhere in my heartthere stirs a hopethat all my yesterdaysdon’t […]

Terriblethe promises we make.Bound by my wordsby the love woven throughsounds and syllablesmy heartcaptiveto oaths and trothsno church […]

Goodnight – Her eyes meet minedark mysterious pondsintoxicatinglike her voicewhich sounds both Westernand not I am not drunk.Two […]

On this afternoona cool breeze from the southgentling the rag ends of the dayinto dusk –I think of […]

In the deep morning I wokerose from my beddressedand walked out to the porch The night skysmudged with […]