Poet Iconic, Vol. 1

Poet Iconic, Vol. 1 is a collection comprised of poetry written and shared by Kelley Ann Hornyak on her blog, PoetIconic.com, with work that spans the decade from 2007 to 2017. This assortment is centered on themes of love and loss, healing and acceptance. The cover is a visual representation of the feeling of being silenced by an unwelcoming world. But open the book and let the words fly, and suddenly the poet’s voice is free. This book will take you on a journey through the loves and losses that make up a good life. It is filled with poems about relationships, anxiety, depression, bullying... and surviving and thriving through it all.

Introduction

-2007-
Rescue
Bookmark
Naked
Eight Thousand Days
Under Luna
Ruins
Queen of Strength, Sleep Silently
Carving Sunsets
Guilt of the Locust
Paper Gown
Early Departure
Love Is
Never So Far
Kiss You Hello
Breakfast with Aphrodite
Casualty

-2008-
The Same Waters
Palm Trees in the Wind
Dreamstrong
Nobody Abandoned Me
Shadows of the Creek
The Longest Wake
Bright Yellow Love
Drive    
Pictures Painted
Nothing to Nature
Set the Stage
Fresh Eyes
If You Are Worth Loving
Paint
Love in the Present Tense
Where I Feel the Shame

-2009-
Frostbite
Good Enough on the Ground
Hope Personified
Closer to the Calm
Downpour
Loving the Broken Half of Me
Morning Came Without You
Haiku Interlude: Skin to Skin
Your Sky, Your Earth
The Killer of Dreams
Pioneer Glow
The Quiet
Ash and Dust
I Adore Us
Needed as We Are
The Mirror Image of the Wistful Star
Reliving
Skyscraper
The Messengers

-2010-
Torn Sky
While She Sleeps
To Stand Bare
You Wanted Me to Feel My Own Joy

-2011-
This Love is Greater
100 Proof

-2014-
Illegal Alien/Pearls Before Swine
Canyons
As Is
The Good Patient
Relief
Simple Solution
Until They Forgot
The Hopeful Place
Haiku Interlude: Tsunami Dreams
Who You'll Be Apart
The Speed of Life
Recollections/Destiny on Fire
November-Hearted
Haiku Interlude: Blood Moon
Bled
10,000 Nights
The Sea-Dweller and the Earth-Bound
The Baby, The Bathwater
Welcome
The Moment of Marriage
Haiku Interlude: Visionaries
Banshees
All Falls Together
Animals
Haiku Interlude: Nothing to Say
Travelogue
All the    While Free
Diagnosis: Wrong
Restoration Complete
Haiku Interlude: Gardens of Dreams
8-Bit
Alchemists

-2015-
Growth
All That Matters

-2016-
Music in Me
A Few Words
Thin Air
Armor
A Lot Like Heaven
Oddlands
Eyes of Love
He Breaks the Night
Anxiety Creeps
Dream Maker
No Home
Know Peace
The Weight of Your World
Pacific
Walking Away Season
Her Religion is Love
Time Waves
Inborn
Spring
Soften Me
Passionflower
Love Note
I Have a Voice
Silent Movies
Walls Don't Talk (But We Should)
4 U
Every Blessed Thing
The Mourner and The Coroner
Cocoon
Take Life
Mask
Unauthorized
Turntables ('Round This Way)
Maimed

-2017-
Pearls
Weighted
Champion
Melancholy
The Square Circle
Disrupt the Night
Compliance
Good Enough Today
Amethyst
Sky-Bound
Old Haunts
Neon Beach
Brave
The Things I've Seen
Visible
Opposing Sides
Break
Bicoastal
Let Me Be
The Land of Loving Me
Peace & Ease
Hatchet
Discarding Darkness
Burn Bright
But I Breathe
Let It Shriek
Santa Barbara
Milk (Tread Carefully)
Hovel
The Laughing Girl and Me
Summer Trips
Skate or Die
Paper Dreams
Star Charts
Pass for Human

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