Starfish Country
Keri Horon2021-08-10T15:50:13-07:00Pacing pausing Numb impatience While heat beat down Asphalt earth below my shoes You Shoeless Stood barred behind chainlink […]
Cemetery Trees
Keri Horon2020-10-27T13:27:29-07:00One stands solitary Stick straight and stalwart A sturdy presence under sun Under stars Through sleet Thick heat A steadfast sentinel […]
Everything Gold Comes Back
Keri Horon2020-08-09T23:35:20-07:00{Note to reader: this is a response poem to Robert Frost’s Nothing Gold Can Stay} If nothing gold can stay, Then joy must slip away. The tides do castles sink. Fall robs the rose of pink. [...]
The Fear Ferris Wheel
Keri Horon2020-07-09T11:43:28-07:00When your world is a spinning pinwheel A moment of peace you just cannot steal The madness around you is totally real There’s tears in your eyes you cannot conceal […]
Arroccato nell’anima
Keri Horon2020-03-23T12:29:27-07:00Suddenly solemn our world did go Shuddering fear fills our hearts Isolate, separate, stay far apart Once blissful, our souls full of woe. […]
Trading Tranquility
Keri Horon2020-01-25T09:39:58-08:00Trading Tranquility Loud doesn’t always mean right. Quiet does not make one meek. Fury should not impart strength. Staying calm does not make us weak. […]
August Departing
Keri Horon2019-09-14T13:52:31-07:00by Keri Horon Moonless night Midnight Misty-eyed mums bow their heads in heaviness And sorrow As August prepares its exit Stillness fills the chilling air Sap sticks to melancholy bark While lilies wilt woefully There’s [...]
Mother.Nature
Keri Horon2019-05-22T15:42:46-07:00‘Tween the glass and the screen, a place does exist where an innocent fly can get trapped and dismissed. The fly in a snap somehow lands in that spot through no fault of its own [...]
Ribbons of the Purest Colors
Keri Horon2019-04-18T00:15:30-07:00(Stepping outside of autism for a moment with a poem about Heaven…) I don’t know what Heaven is or what it looks like or where it exists but I know it does It [...]
The Beacon
Keri Horon2018-05-11T22:57:48-07:00(A poem for Mother’s Day) Flutters of life which flit in the womb The buying of onesies & preparing the room Dreams of the moment the infant is born Announcements & photos you’ll surely adorn [...]