All Posts By: Byron McCoy
A STRANGER
(This poem was inspired by reading Dante and how his envisioning of the personage of “Beatrice” affected and inspired his art. To me, it is an inspiring example how one person, how ever small their perceived presence in another’s life can affect and redefine entire worlds.)
HER NAME
Ryan listened to the conversation never expecting to become a part. Resting in the college coffee shop, Ryan listened as two English Doctorates—each with their own private, and common, ambition to write the next Great American Novel—debated Dante and the identity of his beloved. As the often case of most such-dreamers, their minds […]
ROAD TO SANTIAGO
I first read of the Road to Santiago in Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist,” a journey he himself took and wrote of in “The Pilgrimage” and credits to inspiration for his art. I found it again, unsuspecting when intentionally taking a break from Coelho’s books, in Ken Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth” when Jack, a […]
THE PERSEIDS
He woke her in the blackness of pre-dawn, well before the rising sun, and drove to open field where stars shone in violet sky above horizon rimmed in ambient light of small town beneath world’s meridian. They lain together staring into the Cosmos as stars fell from the heavens all around—blue, green, and orange […]
FOR BEATRICE
One of my favorite things in reading is when, unknowingly, you stumble into an incredible romance. It’s not in story you go searching for, but in search for something else, it is revealed and takes you completely by surprise, drawing you in and refusing to let you break away. Recently, I began reading […]
LAURELAI
To me, there is something special—spiritual—in experiencing the sun rise and set; something magical in the way, for a moment, the sky is changed and the hidden colors of the sky’s depths show through, and you hold witness before sky changes and sky’s filtered soul is masked again in daytime blue or night. When […]