My life is half reality show, half Saturday morning cartoons.
—Terri Guillemets
My life is half reality show, half Saturday morning cartoons.
—Terri Guillemets
Flawed past is history; flawed present is opportunity.
—Terri Guillemets
Sometimes we can’t let go of the pain because we think it’s the only thing holding us together.
—Terri Guillemets
The world constantly sways me between poet and malcontent.
—Terri Guillemets
thorns and stings
and those such things
just make stronger
our angel wings
—Terri Guillemets
P.S. Thank you to everyone who has written letting me know that Katya Elise Henry got a tattoo of this poem. Honestly, I didn’t know who she was and had to look it up. But that’s pretty cool, and a nice tattoo.
Midnight — the luller
Midnight — the advisor
Midnight — the fabulist
—Terri Guillemets
If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of
—Terri Guillemets
Small kindnesses make you a bigger person.
—Terri Guillemets
the poet is a sensitive snail —
wandering along the path of life
leaving a glittering trail of words
—Terri Guillemets
Once you’ve whittled down to spiritual essentials, the physical decluttering comes naturally.
—Terri Guillemets
I swing like a kid
and fall like an adult;
cry tears of gratitude
and pray in smiles;
hug and love, and later
hide under the covers—
wildly and humbly living
from dawn to the stars,
and ever back again
—Terri Guillemets
An author can be just a writer, but a translator must always be a poet.
—Terri Guillemets
I’ve only yet to see the apparition of enlightenment, and it always slips past in my periphery.
—Terri Guillemets