You’ve Changed is a collection of poetry that was born over seven years of working on a novel. I may work on the novel for another seven years or another seventy.
A song can be held in the mind whole as you work on it. Only so much can happen in a song, or at least only so much can be said about it. To be fair, each word carries more weight. Still, a novelist is obligated to come up with a minimum of forty thousand words that can grip the modern attention span for at least an afternoon. Paul McCartney’s “Blackbird” has thirty-four words and is done before you can plunge your French press.
To maintain a sense of wonder and play in this highly-disciplined writing environment, I created exercises for myself. I would remove time. I would introduce two characters from different books. I would tell a modern story using only words from Genesis. Mostly they were weird little monsters I shared with my friends on the internet. But some were very moving. Some made me cry or laugh out loud. Some still do, even just now proofreading the latest version. Somehow my heart got into it.
This is the magic of art. I show up and do things every day. Suddenly one day my hand says something my heart has been trying to say for years. It feels as if a cog has moved inside me. As if my internal machinery has wheeled forward another inch in its specific mission, a mission that is maddeningly hidden from me inside the ink of a thousand hotel pens.
You’ve Changed is a seven-year journey of inches. I didn’t even know I was making a book and now you may be holding it. Please take your time with it. It’s magic after all

You've Changed

Literature & Fiction

Byrd, Jonathan

Poetry

Mezcalita Press, LLC

Jonathan reflected back at a time when his uncle threaten to kill him over who would eat the last egg in the frizz, when suddenly they were both startled by the dog yelping in the front of the house; when his uncle went to see what the problem was, he quickly place the 22cal. pistol back in his pants and cooked the egg. Quickly he consumed his breakfast and walk to the front of house and standing on the pourch, he noted a trail of blood leading across the street and there he found his uncle beating the mailman who laid unconscious in a pool of his own blood. Sirens filled the morning air as several police cars arrived beating his uncle and taking him away. The war in Vienna and smoking that mary j had driven him crazy. Jonathan Byrd is a powerful, dynamic, enthusiastic and straightforward speaker and is known for telling things the way they are. He has completely devoted hi life to sharing the gospel with others. His unique style and powerful message will challenge audiences of all ages. Jonathan is a conference speaker nationally and internationally, traveling to nation teaching in Leadership Conferences to National Pastors. It is his lifelong desire "to see people set free from the powers of darkness." As the founder of Might-X Ministries, God uses him powerfully in the deliverance aspects of ministry. His life is a testament to the transformation power of Jesus, and the empowerment God gives us to become greater than we ever thought possible.

Unshackled

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Xulon Press

"Devotion" is a love story in the lineage of Delta of Venus and Song of Songs, the second book of poems by North Carolina songwriter and poet Jonathan Byrd. One hundred poems, written in order over a year of a love affair, explore the edges of love - unfettered, emotional, imaginative, inviting, sensual, and provocative. "Devotion" also features the author's hyperreal botanical photographs, modern analogs to Georgia O'Keeffe's flower studies.

Devotion

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