Sometimes life gives honey
and other times, stings;
Sometimes we need roots—
and other times, wings.
—Terri Guillemets
poems
Tempus insaniam
Please someone tell me—
am I actually demented,
or just well-fermented?
—Terri Guillemets
@Risk
Life is like running with scissors
naked through freezing blizzards
—Terri Guillemets
Petals & leaves
i love to
smell the flowers
and sniff the books
sitting in gardens
and library nooks
—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
INFj autopsy
the autopsy will find —
coloured flowers in my grey matter
still-beating poetry in my heart
unspent ink in every organ
blood saturated with love
bones mineral’d by life’s rough days
muscles fiber’d by courage and fear intertwined
and a slightly crushed but glittering soul
—Terri Guillemets
Close quarters & distant dreams
in good times and in bad
’til death do us part
isn’t just for marriage —
but family too — lifelong vows
coursing through our blood
—Terri Guillemets
Vs.
poetry is combat—
soul verses world
—Terri Guillemets
X
life is a treasure map
and also the treasure
—Terri Guillemets
Antennae
Read instead of watch TV?
Now there’s a novel idea!
—Terri Guillemets
Cracked
her head was cracked —
not tragically, just poetically
it’s how the poems got in —
and out
—Terri Guillemets
Inkdreaming
the smell of ink is
intoxicating to me —
others may have wine
but I have poetry
—Terri Guillemets