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age & aging

Whirlwind

2025 March 17th2023 December 4th

bee-buzzed blooms
wilt white into winter —

hellish heavy heat
silently softens to snow —

lovely lustrous leaves
fall freckled in frost —

senescent slanting sun
solstices southward —

the young year yules
dizzily debarks december

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, bees, december, favorites, leaves, nature, poems, popular, seasons, sun, terri guillemets, weather, winter, year

Precarious

2025 March 11th2019 June 3rd

Aging is millions of moments
stacked upon tumbling years

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, favorites, poems, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, time

Losing count

2025 March 16th2020 May 16th

Damnit!  I  binged
again  II day
IV  life was hard
and so  I
VIII  my stress away.
O why do  I  so  of X  gorge?
Since turning  XL
I’ve been extra large.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, eating, favorites, food, forties, ha ha, health, math & numbers, midlife, perimenopause, poems, popular, silly, stress, terri guillemets, wordplay

Self-conviction

2025 March 22nd2024 April 28th

when you live too hard
forty is a warning
fifty, penalty

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, fifties, forties, health, midlife, poems, terri guillemets

Sound of winter leaves at night

2025 March 16th2014 December 14th

Age is a foreign land I can’t get used to. I want to go back home.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, emotions, favorites, fifties, forties, midlife, popular, quotes, self, terri guillemets

Serenity & grace

2025 March 16th2010 October 29th

when I fall into old age
let it be not a drunkenly
face-first tumble but rather
an autumn leaf gracefully
drifting from the tree —
or if we ascend into our
older years please let me
soar and not be flung

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, attitude, health, letting go, metaphor, quotes, revised, terri guillemets

Brimming

2025 March 16th1999 January 12th

Time pours his guests a cup of tea but the party is over before we know it.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, life, party, popular, quotes, tea, terri guillemets, time

Eye floaters

2025 March 17th2020 July 12th

snakes and worms
squiggles and sperms
phantom insects
crawling, free-falling

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, fifties, forties, ha ha, medical, midlife, poems, senses, terri guillemets

Branching

2025 March 16th2016 January 7th

this winter afternoon
i stare between bare
branches of gray trees

in the distance i see
an unreturnable past
or a dwindling future

i can’t tell which but
the silence is sublime

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, favorites, fifties, forties, midlife, past, poems, revised, terri guillemets, trees, winter

Wizen

2025 March 16th2022 November 28th

but on the bright side
middle age aridity
concentrates essence

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, forties, midlife, mind, perimenopause, poems, senryu, spirit, terri guillemets, womanhood, wordplay

Liftoff

2025 March 17th2023 July 13th

believing my wings were fragile and fractured
in my formidable forties, i abandoned flying—
approaching fifty, i know my wings are strong
they just cannot lift so many heavy anxieties—

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, emotions, fifties, forties, midlife, perimenopause, poems, stress, terri guillemets, wings

I stand amid the dust

2025 April 5th2015 October 7th

In the rash lustihead of my young powers,
      I shook the pillaring hours
And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears,
I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years —
My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap.

—Francis Thompson, from “The Hound of Heaven,” 1890

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1800s, age & aging, collected, francis thompson, poems, quoted, youth

Playground

2025 March 16th2016 March 13th

We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never leave the playground of our hearts.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, favorites, inner child, memories, play, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, youth
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