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senryu

human-nature haiku

Days end

2025 March 15th2022 June 18th

my life is a mess
but this moment is perfect
my life is perfect

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, favorites, letting go, life, perspective, poems, popular, senryu, signature, terri guillemets

Writing up a storm

2025 March 17th2023 July 26th

phoenix monsoon storm
haboob isn’t dirty word
it is dusty though

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, arizona, desert, favorites, ha ha, monsoon, phoenix, poems, popular, senryu, silly, storms, terri guillemets, weather, wordplay, words

Inflame

2025 March 17th2023 July 22nd

the world we abuse
roasting us like marshmallows
in a fire we lit

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, climate change, environment, favorites, heat wave, humans, poems, popular, senryu, terri guillemets, weather

Dark thoughts

2025 March 16th2023 August 31st

how the nighttime looks
during a power outage
is how night should look

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, environment, favorites, light pollution, night, night sky, poems, senryu, terri guillemets

$ick

2025 April 19th2023 January 19th

in this day and age
dealing with health insurance
worst disease of all

Terri Guillemets

“All complaints about life today will be ignored unless they are submitted in the format of elegant haiku poetry.” —Dr. SunWolf

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, enshittification, health, medical, poems, q&a, senryu, society, stress, terri guillemets

Storm story

2025 March 17th2023 July 30th

princess lightning reigned
it was a dark and stormy
knight to fall in love

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, ha ha, lightning, night, poems, popular, rain, senryu, silly, storms, terri guillemets, thunder, thunderstorms, weather, wordplay

Wizen

2025 September 17th2022 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, transformation, womanhood, wordplay

Accelerant

2025 March 17th2023 July 13th

our apocalypse
once in ultra slow motion
now on fast forward

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, change, climate change, environment, heat wave, poems, popular, senryu, social issues, society, terri guillemets, weather

Big city night

2025 March 19th2023 July 29th

oh my gosh is that a star
in bright city sky?
nope! police helicopter

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, environment, light pollution, night, night sky, phoenix, poems, senryu, sky, society, stars, terri guillemets

Finally a bath!

2025 March 17th2023 July 27th

watching birds splash in
morning-after rain puddles
cleanses my spirit

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, animals, birds, heat wave, morning, nature, poems, rain, senryu, storms, terri guillemets, water, weather

Small things

2025 April 4th2023 September 27th

Small daily events
wrap tendrils about the heart
and keep it floating.

—Cave Outlaw (1900–1996), Autumn Walk, 1974

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1970s, cave outlaw, collected, favorites, heart, poems, quoted, senryu

Bedwriting

2025 March 16th2006 November 10th

it’s smart as can be
things that make sense in our dreams
when we wake — insane

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, dreams, ha ha, mind, poems, senryu, sleep, terri guillemets

Westerly

2025 March 16th2023 August 20th

sunset casts shadows
yet we see only colors
and glorious light

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, attitude, colors, light, metaphor, nature, poems, senryu, sun, sunrise & sunset, terri guillemets
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