Poetry allows
my soul to age gracefully
my mind to land softly
amongst the new gray hairs —
without it I’d have thunked
into my forties with
tail bone, funny bone
and spirit broken
—Terri Guillemets
Poetry allows
my soul to age gracefully
my mind to land softly
amongst the new gray hairs —
without it I’d have thunked
into my forties with
tail bone, funny bone
and spirit broken
—Terri Guillemets
Poetry is patchwork —
& only the best poets
can hide all the seams.
—Terri Guillemets
Grass of Walt
[D!@%] of Moby
Boz gets Lit
Bard’s the [$h¡t]
—Terri Guillemets
An author plants the alphabet — and harvests nourishment, flowers, and weeds.
—Terri Guillemets
Flowers rewrite soil, rain, and sunshine into petal’d poetry.
—Terri Guillemets
Reading in bed is a gateway drug to writing in bed.
—Terri Guillemets
An author, behind his words, is naked.
—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
Say what! You mean
That’s not why they call it an
Em dash? — those Dickinson
Hyphens between?
—Terri Guillemets
the poet is a sensitive snail —
wandering along the path of life
leaving a glittering trail of words
—Terri Guillemets
An author can be just a writer, but a translator must always be a poet.
—Terri Guillemets