Here Terri shares links to her favorite writing, poetry, and educational organizations to encourage your participation in the larger writing community.
Delicate repose
a butterfly balances
on a petal's tip.
Sneak preview
through lush green foliage
one purple finch.
Cherry tree blooms
against my bedroom window
 keeps me up all night.
I will also be reading
bee & butterfly poems
at the Pollinator Palooza,
April 20, 2024, 1 pm
at Crescent Elk Middle School,
Crescent City, CA
Funded by Upstate California Creative Corps. #upstatecaliforniacreativecorps #upstateartists
“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”
“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”
“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
“Wine is bottled poetry.”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”
“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”
“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”
“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”
“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”
“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”
“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”
“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”
“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”
Here Terri shares links to her favorite writing, poetry, and educational organizations to encourage your participation in the larger writing community.
A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.