Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
—Terri Guillemets
Creativity Journal
Your fill
There are lots of opport✻nities o✻t there. And yo✻ know what’s missing.
—Terri Guillemets
Leaping & stretching & pleasing
A cat is an adorable violation of the laws of physics.
—Terri Guillemets
Breakthrough
Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.
—Terri Guillemets
Tap dance
Author: a dancer of typewriter keys.
—Terri Guillemets
Fragmental
all my poems are starts
they begin but never end
yet do they abandon me
or do i abandon them?
—Terri Guillemets
Marrow
Poetry is the dancing skeleton of bare-bones prose.
—Terri Guillemets
Pain is a story
Adversity enhances this tale we call life.
—Terri Guillemets
Emily’s dash
Say what! You mean
That’s not why they call it an
Em dash? — those Dickinson
Hyphens between?
—Terri Guillemets
Well lit
A school library is the brightest beacon of youthful hope.
A public library is the brightest beacon of community hope.
A local library is the brightest beacon of global hope.
—Terri Guillemets
Mind the monsters
Did you really run into a monster on your path, or just a mirror?
—Terri Guillemets
Refined
Candy is sugar that’s all dressed up for the party.
—Terri Guillemets
Breaking & entering
If you treat the unknown as a minefield and never enter, you may avoid getting blasted but won’t ever get to run along with the butterflies.
—Terri Guillemets
Essence
A poet can translate birdsong much more faithfully than the biologist ever could.
—Terri Guillemets
Once upon a thyme
Desserts are the fairy tales of dining — a happily-ever-after to supper.
—Terri Guillemets
Fertilize & philosophize
Weeds —
Is there really evil in their hearts
or are they simply feisty seeds —
ambitious verdant darts,
proliferous garden art?
—Terri Guillemets
Pierced flight
thorns and stings
and those such things
just make stronger
our angel wings
—Terri Guillemets
P.S. Thank you to everyone who has written letting me know that Katya Elise Henry got a tattoo of this poem. Honestly, I didn’t know who she was and had to look it up. But that’s pretty cool, and a nice tattoo.
Kindnesses
Small kindnesses make you a bigger person.
—Terri Guillemets
Aye aye, skipper!
When most people see an adult skipping they assume it must be on the way either to or from the asylum.
—Terri Guillemets
Humble warrior
Success is a shell — don’t let it harden around your ego.
Failure is a shell — don’t let it harden around your determination.
—Terri Guillemets
Who’s there?
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.
—Terri Guillemets
Grow love
Plant love everywhere, so that it grows through the cracks in hatred.
—Terri Guillemets
Campfire
campfire flames kiss the night
stars in distant skies blaze bright
ghost story whispers all affright
rustling sounds just out of sight
—Terri Guillemets
Excite
Lightning dances —
Thunder applauds her!
—Terri Guillemets
Vs.
poetry is combat—
soul verses world
—Terri Guillemets