Jill Terry

May the sunshine burn you Happy!

Tags: sunshine, TGIF, Through my Eyes

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

Tags: fat tuesday, Mardi Gras 2010

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

They don’t all float down here, as his mantra would have you believe. Some wrap themselves intentionally, in the dispirited darkness; fighting natures buoyancy that would raise them toward the light. He thrived on being the outcast, for he knew not how to fit; emitted false illusion, so as to sway opinion and perceptions. But [...]

Tags: badass, being bad, darkness, facade, fake, Grim Reaper, illusion, light, perception, poetry, prayer, pretend, pure evil, sage, Second ex-husband, short story, Through my Eyes, wannabe

Forced to acknowledge
Her earthbound
Vessel
The inner-workings
The stretch of its
Limits
The one within
She’s traveled
The whole of
This life
The receiver of
Its cause
She’s always been
Unspeakable pleasure
Unbearable pain
Forgivable sin
Linked now
With a manmade machine
Round the clock
Tic-tock
Tic-tock
Casts her circle
Recounts blessings
Patiently waits
For night to fall
Closes her eyes
Empties her mind
Effortlessly slips
To that place of
No time
Where souls do swirl
In their beguiling ethereal
Dance
Abysmal realm
Released from earthly bonds
Where all [...]

Tags: escape, heavenly realms, poetry, spirit guides, Transcendental meditation, visions

You know you’ve reached the threshold, when you start thinking about your “things” and imagining what will become of them after you’re gone. All your personal little mementos that you’ve collected over the course of your life; meaning absolutely nothing to anyone who happens across them, but holds significance to you; even if that significance [...]

Tags: connections, darkness, death, dying, friendship, Life, light, living, love, soul sisters

It wraps around me
Like a warm familiar
Blanket
Comforting
Soothing
Protective
It warms my chill
Eases my pain
Brings me pause
It takes me back
Holds me steadily
Grounded
Urges my growth
It is unconditional
Never ending
The one true
Constant
That always
Remains
It is priceless
Means everything
Can never be lost
Never replaced
It’s the one possession
I carry with me
From my very first breath
To my dying day
It’s my Mother’s love
I speak of
A love that will [...]

Tags: everything, happiness, light, love, mother’s love, my mother, poetry, pure, true

Called to the carpet
To meet with
Prominent editor
Of finest antiquity
Gigantic Persian
Rug
The office loomed
Enormous
Intimidating
At the end of a
Brightly lit
Corridor
Heart pine floors
Substantial
Eloquent
Strong enough to
Support
Even the largest
Of egos
She held up my
Book
As I entered
The room
Smiling from her
Throne
This stuff is
Good
Closing the cover
Setting it aside
Take a seat
What else have
You got
I sat back
And grinned
Let my spiel
Rip
The sky’s the [...]