Byron Corner-crosswalks and crossroads - E-book - ePub

Byron Corner- crosswalks and crossroads is a collection of poetry, thought, and photography collected over a fifty-or-so-year period. I got gravely ill during the holiday season of 2017. When I returned home from my hospital stay, the realization was that when I die, all the work I've collected will go into a pile and probably, over time, trashed. You see it all the time. Your parents, grandparents, aunt, or uncle's things, which they cherished, get abandoned, and there is no one to save them.
I panicked, collected all my loose notes, organized them, and updated and rewrote them. I put them into a volume, and voila, here we are. The poems are mostly short and easy to read, It encompasses a lifetime of thought. It's funny when you wrote something 25-30 years ago; you read it and realize you no longer feel the same way. You go with it. I was always Romanic, but in my mid-forties, I disliked many things that brought me happiness.
I was angry with my life choices, which is reflected in my poetry. In the printed version, the poems are sided with photos that, when taken, had no destination, but many of them matched with the book's subject matter. I'm not so sure how they will be placed in the ebook. They will be only a page off, if any. The section "poetically unconscious" is a philosophical look at the world. "tearing from god, "  many of the poems were never meant for publication, just too personal, but do without any reluctance appear.
Part three, 'return' is just that, back from that mid-forty doldrum. It is more upbeat and positive.