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shape poems

concrete poetry, poems with shapes, visual poetry

Saguaro arms

2025 April 5th2020 March 25th

           a shrug, a hug
       touchdown, letdown
  waving, curling, sprouting
 disco, vogue; praise, prayer
 bird-pecked, green-specked
 skeletonized, or multiplied
 flower and fruity fingered
  flipped, frail, or fallen off
  perfected, nested, crested

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, arizona, desert, green, nature, plants, poems, popular, shape poems, terri guillemets

Inner self

2025 March 19th2018 May 29th

G R i E F —
i feel so tiny inside

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, grief, poems, self, shape poems, terri guillemets, wordplay

SOCial anxIETY

2025 March 23rd2004 February 1st

You can’t spell social anxiety without society.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Sketch Journal Tags -all posts-, hsp, infj, popular, quotes, shape poems, social anxiety, terri guillemets, wordplay

Midair

2025 March 16th2016 March 13th

poets swing too high
until the chain kinks
and snaps mid-air
      the
            fall
                  is
                      poetry


Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, poems, poetry: about, poets, popular, shape poems, terri guillemets, writing

Balancing act

2025 March 30th2023 September 13th

juggling three generations
with my exhausted octopus arms
if i drop anything, everything will fall

✻        ✻        ✻

haciendo malabares tres generaciones
con mis agotados brazos de pulpo
si dejo caer algo, todo caerá


Terri Guillemets
La malabarista perimenopáusica

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, midlife, perimenopause, poems, popular, shape poems, spanish, terri guillemets, womanhood

Questions of the Sky

2025 April 4th2015 September 2nd

question mark shape poem

—Anonymous, The Queries Magazine, 1890

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1800s, angels, collected, god, lightning, nature, picture, poems, poetry: about, popular, quoted, rainbows, shape poems, sky, snow, sun, weather

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