Jill Terry

Warrior Woman
May the stars carry away your fear and sadness
Hold on to what is good
May the promise of spring fill your heart with beauty
Hold on to what you believe
May hope forever wash away your tears and pain
Hold on to what you must do
May your stillness in this silence make you strong
Hold on to life
Hold on [...]

Tags: connections, courage, faith, friendship, healing engergy, hope, light, love, prayer, strength

Charismatic
Handsome
Intelligent
The world was
His oyster
Plucking pearls
He happened across
Basking in their
Luminescence
Until he grew
Bored
Then back into
The sea
From whence
They came
Neurotoxic poisoning
Traces left
Everywhere
Not because they
Sprang
From within a
Bad oyster
But simply from
Being
Touched by
Him

Tags: It, poetry, poison

So many ways
To be miserable
Attained on a daily basis
The moment It wakes
From unconsciousness
Forced to face another day
Plundering the masks
Upon the wall
Who shall It be today
The angst the drama
Poor pitiful soul
Its only offer to the world
The same worn path
Each footfall memorized
Wallowing mistaken for art
For those who recognize
Its misery demanding company
Avert and forced to purge

Tags: It, poetry

I came across his image, alive upon the screen; my breath caught suddenly within my throat, my heart grew heavy, mind suddenly weary, and still I could not look away. For in that brief and fleeting moment, taken completely unawares, I gazed into the shadows of my very soul, remembering what was lost there.

Tags: death, first love, images, Life, lost love, lovers, memories, past pains, photographs

Words pour forth
Clock ticks on
Night falls deeper
Must
follow
the
Muse

Tags: muse, novel writing, poetry, Writing

But were I Loved
~Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
But were I loved, as I desire to be,
What is there in the great sphere of the earth,
And range of evil between death and birth,
That I should fear, if I were loved by thee?
All the inner, all the outer world of pain
Clear Love would pierce and cleave, if thou [...]

Tags: love poems, nascent love, Potery, Tennyson, valentine’s day

She reached with trembling hands
In the one direction
She knew she shouldn’t
Precariously she traveled
To the edge of deaths ledge
Desperate to feel anything
Craving his rejection
She raised her arms
As if to take flight
The ground shook violently
Breaking night’s silence
She heard the hoof beats
Coming hard and fast
Over her shoulder
Half beast
Half man
He snatched her away
From deceptions cruel embrace
With the key [...]

Tags: darkness, death, despair, evil, faust, goodness, happiness, holy beast, Life, light, poetry, yang, yin

Night falls
And the door of
Loneliness
Opens once more
Wandering thoughts
Leading deeper
Endless hours
Pass by idle
Tears born of
Frustration
Wanting so much
To believe
While truths falsities
Ebb and flow
Raging as the sea
To shed tears of happiness
Heart swollen with joy
From the gift of truth
Another should bestow
But what illusions spring
From a bounty of words
While reading the pages
Of one’s very soul
A beacon in the darkness
Wrapping round [...]

Tags: beasts, beauty, caged, connections, fear, freedom, hope, illusion, lies, loathing, loneliness, longing, lost, love, personal journey, truth, virtual reality, Writing

I feel him pulling
Moving away
Gently he slips
In directions
Opposite me
Testing his wings
Determined and courageous
The look in his eyes
Reveals fear of
Full flight
No longer
My little boy
Always my baby
No matter how
Far from me
The universe
Takes him
Of typical concern
My own human flaws
Hoping my guidance
Has properly prepared him

Tags: bonds, changes, children, connections, courage, family, growth, Life, mother and child, parenting, personal journey, puberty, strength, teens