When you’re shivering with loss, let love keep you warm with memories.
—Terri Guillemets
love
I’m positive!
my veins are lined
with a velvet hope
my soul is electric
and lights with dreams
my mind is infinite
and buzzes with wonder
my heart is beyond alive
and gushes boundless love
my body is fragile
yet heals as if magic
my will is strong
and dances with courage
—Terri Guillemets
Infinitas per æternitas
Love is in my bones —
it’s in my buds and blooms
in my rapturous-red blood —
Lust is in my perfum’d flesh
desire-poems in my skull —
How many kisses have I
in my primal fervent lips —
as many as hours that swirl
in a blind & wild eternity —
—Terri Guillemets
Connections
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
—Terri Guillemets
Asymmetrical kisses
Asymmetrical kisses,
the sexiest yearning —
one lip on nostalgia, the
other, love yet earning
—Terri Guillemets
Little thriving without roots
Live for the roots
Love the green
Dance with the blossoms
—Terri Guillemets
Threads
Life is woven of love and death, aches and smiles, persistence and letting go.
—Terri Guillemets
Truly, love
Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them.
—Terri Guillemets
Winter sparks
snowflakes fall from the sky
in peppermint perfection —
i kiss you with quivering lips
but cold is not the reason —
you set my winter heart on fire
and keep me warm all season
—Terri Guillemets
Fairies of reality
It’s all about how he saves her — not from the dragon but from herself.
—Terri Guillemets
Brotherlove
There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.
—Terri Guillemets
Immeasurable
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
—Terri Guillemets
The chaos-harmony of life
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