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Clock work

2025 March 16th2007 February 8th

flowers don’t open to the clock
but to the sunshine spontaneous—
for modern humans that manner
of instinct is now extraneous

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, flowers, humans, nature, poems, society, sun, terri guillemets, time

A final breath in winter

2025 March 17th2007 January 26th

Dying ain’t pretty. Death is beautiful.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, favorites, letting go, loss, perspective, philosophical, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Sudden silence

2025 March 16th2007 January 26th

The death of a loved one is a sudden silence — one of those deafening silences that leaves ringing in your ears.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, favorites, grief, loss, popular, quotes, silence, terri guillemets

Beautiful & unfair

2025 March 11th2007 January 14th

Life is not always fair — sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, favorites, life, perspective, popular, quotes, rainbows, revised, terri guillemets

Listen to the colors

2025 March 16th2007 January 7th

Purple is the soul-lifter
Red, the flame of passion
Yellow, the light of warmth
Green, vibrant stem of life
Pink, a whisper of beauty
Orange beckons, take a chance
Blue is the sea tide in us all

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, blue, colors, green, orange, pink, poems, purple, red, terri guillemets, yellow

Praying hands & feet

2025 March 16th2006 December 31st

It is of course possible to dance a prayer.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, dancing, favorites, popular, prayer, quotes, terri guillemets

Meant-to’s

2025 March 15th2006 December 1st

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Lunch Break Journal Tags -all posts-, body, dancing, favorites, happiness, health, letting go, popular, quotes, spirit, terri guillemets

Bedwriting

2025 March 16th2006 November 10th

it’s smart as can be
things that make sense in our dreams
when we wake — insane

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, dreams, ha ha, mind, poems, senryu, sleep, terri guillemets

Aside

2025 March 16th2006 November 5th

Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, imagination & creativity, quotes, terri guillemets

Explanatory

2025 March 16th2006 November 4th

LIFE
is an artist insane
painting his way
with the world…

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, art & artists, life, poems, terri guillemets

Overdoing it

2025 July 11th2006 November 2nd

Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, eating, health, quotes, society, stress, terri guillemets, weight gain, wordplay

Internal listening

2025 March 16th2006 October 22nd

If you can’t get quiet enough to hear yourself, your life is too loud.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, healing, hsp, infj, quotes, self, silence, social anxiety, society, sounds, terri guillemets, wellness

wørrier

2025 July 11th2006 October 21st

You can never worry your way to enlightenment.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, enlightenment, quotes, terri guillemets, worry
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