Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.
—Terri Guillemets
Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.
—Terri Guillemets
Author: a dancer of typewriter keys.
—Terri Guillemets
all my poems are starts
they begin but never end
yet do they abandon me
or do i abandon them?
—Terri Guillemets
Poetry is the dancing skeleton of bare-bones prose.
—Terri Guillemets
Adversity enhances this tale we call life.
—Terri Guillemets
Say what! You mean
That’s not why they call it an
Em dash? — those Dickinson
Hyphens between?
—Terri Guillemets
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
Did you really run into a monster on your path, or just a mirror?
—Terri Guillemets
Candy is sugar that’s all dressed up for the party.
—Terri Guillemets
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
A poet can translate birdsong much more faithfully than the biologist ever could.
—Terri Guillemets
Desserts are the fairy tales of dining — a happily-ever-after to supper.
—Terri Guillemets
Weeds —
Is there really evil in their hearts
or are they simply feisty seeds —
ambitious verdant darts,
proliferous garden art?
—Terri Guillemets