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Moonlit plum tree

2025 March 16th2010 March 22nd

the moon and plum tree
make flow’ry springtime shadows—
lovers of the night

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, flowers, haiku, light, moon, nature, night, poems, seasons, spring, terri guillemets, trees

Mindfield

2025 November 22nd2010 March 9th

Worry is my worst enemy — an enemy I unleash upon myself.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, anxiety, emotions, fear, mind, quotes, self, terri guillemets, worry

Little thriving without roots

2025 March 17th2010 March 8th

Live for the roots
Love the green
Dance with the blossoms

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, colors, dancing, flowers, gardens, green, life, love, nature, poems, popular, terri guillemets

Radiant joy

2025 March 16th2010 January 26th

Aside from new babies, new mothers must be the most beautiful creatures on earth.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, motherhood, mothers, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

I sew ragged

2025 November 22nd2010 January 25th

Poetry is patchwork —
& only the best poets
can hide all the seams.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, poems, poetry: about, poets, terri guillemets, words, writing

Windblown

2025 November 22nd2010 January 13th

The veil concealing truth gets windswept in the wee hours, revealing all to the silence of the night.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, infj, night, night 3am, quotes, self, silence, soul, terri guillemets, truth

Cosmic pulse

2025 November 22nd2010 January 12th

The bones of music are the universal rhythms within us all.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, music, quotes, terri guillemets

Looking forward

2025 November 22nd2010 January 10th

If winter wrote an autobiography, it would be mostly about the spring.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, nature, quotes, seasons, spring, terri guillemets, winter

Classics declassified

2025 March 16th2009 December 4th

Grass of Walt
[D!@%] of Moby
Boz gets Lit
Bard’s the [$h¡t]

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, authors, books, charles dickens, ha ha, herman melville, literature, people, poems, poetry: about, reading, revised, silly, terri guillemets, walt whitman, william shakespeare, wordplay, writing

Threads

2025 March 16th2009 November 29th

Life is woven of love and death, aches and smiles, persistence and letting go.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, balance, death, letting go, life, love, perspective, quotes, smiles, terri guillemets

Ill & well

2025 March 16th2009 November 25th

Do not take anything for granted — not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, blessings, favorites, gratitude, happiness, popular, quotes, rainbows, self, simplicity, smiles, terri guillemets, wellness

Simple but not empty

2025 March 16th2009 November 10th

The goal of life:  simple, but not empty.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, balance, life, perspective, popular, quotes, simplicity, terri guillemets

War paint

2025 April 1st2009 November 5th

We paint our lives with passion and peace, with love and laughter — to cover the pain and scars, the bitterness and tears.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, crying, emotions, laughter, life, love, pain, passion, quotes, scars, self, terri guillemets, therapy
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