No longer torn –perhaps the seams now are scarsbut like the cherrythat blossoms with the Spring’s warmthnew seasons […]

Through long Winter nightsI clung to your memoryas to life itself –in Spring cherry blossoms fallsnowing for my […]

High in the mountainsyou and I planted buckwheat –now those seeds have bloomedwhile the love we had fadedleaving […]

I had thought exile would break me with loneliness – yet I find my heart though bruised from […]

Lightly falling snow covers all the places where love wounded my heart setting me upon this path – […]

I gave you my hearttried to make you feelbetter about yourself –you took but a glanceand with a […]

The night skyso full of stars –perhaps the futuresings for usfrom Shibuya Crossing © Copyright Brendan E Byrne […]

A faint clap of thunderperhaps rain comes –either way my heart remainsempty without you *modelled after poem 2513 […]

These pale yellow leavesnot Autumn’s changingbut lingering late Summer’scasualties – climate changeconfusing all the seasons © Copyright Brendan […]

My heart rememberscool mornings crisp and brightthe soft lingering twilightof gentle sun-filled days –the sky so clear so […]