Short Byrne Poems

Ah, beauty must die
Impermanent flower
Showing gratitude 

©david byrne june ‘12...

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Admit one tonight
So he may howl and dream
Full Moon approaches

©david byrne june ‘12...

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On the seventh day he died.





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David Byrne 2009

Entry for Raul's contest...

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Of what use is time
If it’s consumed by passion
Servicing others
Servitude that drowns your dream
While you toil and save and pay

©david byrne March 2012...

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Like a devoted dog, ignorant of human schemes,
The Moon returns and seems to watch,
Towards worldly affairs she is ambivalent,
Instead she simply shines. 

©david byrne oct ‘12...

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Former Mayor of Chicago, Ms. Jayne Byrne
about mood swings and temper tantrums had what to learn

To differentiate her from the Panama Canal 
Ask yourself which
  ~ One of them was a busy ditch...

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I trawl through happy memories
Aided through old song
And for a fleeting moment
In gladness I belong 
Humming in the moonlight
Absent mind floats on
Bringing back to my delight
Golden moments gone 

©david byrne july ‘12...

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Prostrate between earth and sky
Drained, desperate, powerless,
But the imagination soars,
And penetrates reflections
Like Alice’s looking glass
When we look yonder
We see within
And explore
Dreams

©David Byrne 2011...

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You say:
(you are a light worker for me!)

The way, the truth, the light
My truth is relative; as is yours
My way is real; as is yours
My light ignites with yours

I say:
(you are a light worker you see!)

©david byrne Aug 2012...

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Dandelion blown
Wishing delusional dreams
Floating in the sky
Vanishing seeds as thin air
Returning reality











For Blowing In The Wind Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Nicola Byrne
Fourth Place
August 25, 2017...

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In the heart the rhythm of life plays havoc with reason.
Nature seeks equilibrium in contest, no one is ever content.
Hope feeds folly and triumph in equal measure.
Even an idiot can have an epiphany.
Thinking , curser blinking ........./

©david byrne Aug 2012...

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You will need:
Some coffee
A cup
Some cream
A spoon
Some imagination


You are the creator
The cup , 
The limits of this Universe
The spoon,
Sets things in motion
The coffee, 
Dark matter
The cream,
The first spiral Galaxy
Imagination,
The Universal in the Particular


©david byrne july ‘12...

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TO RETURN ?

              He promised to be back
                   On day after tomorrow.
                Days after days rolled on.
                     Waiting for specific day.
                    ‘The day after tomorrow.’

  
  12/10/16

  Point of NO Return Contest by Nicola Byrne....

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Time stood still in the azure sunset
She left the town that saw her grew
Leaving behind the baggage
That drowned to an abyss
Compared to hades
Until one day
Reason won
Over 
Love









For Point Of No Return Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Nicola Byrne
Fourth Place
December 5, 2016...

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Shattered in pieces the tender heart
Fixed with the healing that brings time
Rises from the nowhere world
Beats with the hidden scars
Subsaning the pain
Suicided
Past feelings
Killed love
Beat







For You Broke My Heart Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Nicola Byrne
2-7-2017
Fifth Place...

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If we really are alone
Made of
Strings bits of things
Scattered all over
Unimaginable distances
Outside and inside
Emotions that stretch
Like elastic 
Unbelievable coincidences
Hope and dread
Measured reason 
Demons in the machine
This moment butters the head
If we really are alone

©david byrne june ‘12...

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Think of yourself as Gold
Fashioned in a star
Blazing bright
Untarnished no matter 

Think of yourself as Enduring
Reliable as the star
Shining light
Unhurried no matter

Think of yourself as Wonder
Conceived in love
Born perfect
Unencumbered by strife

Think of yourself as Beautiful


©David Byrne Sept 2011...

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In response to 'paint me a rainbow' by nicola byrne 

Golden eye and crescent nerve.
The rainbow hides, he doesn't like 
to be disturbed.
He's actually a bit perturbed.
The people gaping from behind
and every angle wide.
You have to pay for pictures blue
and colours frosted in the nude.
The rainbow waits in turn for you
to show him curves for him to perv....

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The night is filled with Gold
Iron, carbon, platinum, water
Hydrogen, helium, silver
Freckled everywhere

Order, gravity
Ancient light, curving through the sky

The night is boasting bold
Orion, Volans, Microscopium, Cancer
Sculptor, Scutum, Serpens, Sextans 
Every name you dare

Thrill the night with stars
Adient flight, surging through the mind

©david byrne March 2012...

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Valentines day is a joke
I learnt the hard way as a bloke.
My last valentines gift on that day,
a divorce order delivered, yay,
till now nothing more funny,
no more chocolates and a cute bunny,
I can no longer celebrate this ritual,
as for most this is habitual.

Contest - Valentine Shmalentine
Sponsor - Nicola Byrne
Date - 01/25/2017...

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Do the whales know that, all we are real?
Do we, the humans, know that they can feel?
Sing a song for us across the ocean,
while harpoons pierce our hearts 
with such devotion.
Curious they are about our souls
Singing angels all of us behold.
Curious we are; we come to Meat
Lethal research, deeds we use to greet.

Angels we, our beauty and our souls,
Bleeding in the ocean, dying cold.

©david byrne dec 2011...

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Violence of every kind,
In spirit that is lost,
Flagrant to extol the mind,
And therefore at a cost,

History that’s godless spent,
In crushing dreams below,
Decapitate the mind that’s meant,
To be what we might know,

Power twisted on its side,
Contorted with such greed,
Beastly cravings must confide,
The bowels of human need,

Godless as we carry on,
Bereft a lonesome chime,
Babies born another dawn,
Change they say this time.

©david byrne oct’12...

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I wrote the perfect poem, and I double-checked each line
The imagery was stunning, the picture painted was divine

My face broke into a smile with the glowing comments I received
But when I saw the ‘winner’s list’ I found my eyes were deceived

There was a massive void where my name should have been
How could the premiere contest sponsor be so bloody mean!

Contest You Broke my Heart
Sponsored by Nicola Byrne

02~11~17...

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I saw a heart on a Large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill,
The heart was pink and so very hard to see, but I knew it was there,
Because it was in my little Minnie’s smile.

Her favorite long sleeved shirts have hearts on them,
Underneath she wears a short-sleeved cotton one; for comfort,
Today's undershirt had the wading bird on it!

4 years old, happy with her
Heart and Flamingo and Playful smile.

©david byrne Jan 2021...

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Canyon walls dwarf us, a speck 
of blue so very far above. Down here,
deep shadows.
I shiver.

The waterfall roars, we stand
in the pool below. 
The rope
still 
hangs, 
bright umbilical cord 
to the upper world.

Nobody speaks. We know:
this is it.
If we pull the rope, the only way 
out: 
down canyon.

Eyes full of expectation and trust
glance at you.
We await the verdict.

December7, 2016
For contest: Point of no return
Sponsored by Nicola Byrne...

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