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Shrewd

2025 March 16th1996 March 8th

cactus is not cruel
it is just so damn thirsty
you’d be prickly too

Terri Guillemets

Categories Walking Journal Tags -all posts-, arizona, desert, nature, outdoors, plants, poems, senryu, terri guillemets, water

Cycles

2025 April 18th1996 March 8th

Death recycles life
Life recycles death

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, life, nature, poems, quotes, terri guillemets

Tenacious

2025 March 16th1996 February 18th

Reality is irritatingly obstinate
and so very gosh darn’d sticky!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, quotes, reality, revised, terri guillemets

Running scared

2025 April 18th1996 February 17th

Jogging is for those who don’t have the guts to skip.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, courage, exercise & fitness, inner child, play, quotes, skipping, terri guillemets

Dreamy

2025 April 18th1996 February 14th

He woke me at midnight on February fourteen, to have the first valentine kiss.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, love, quotes, sexy, terri guillemets

Tired of trying

2025 March 16th1996 February 12th

Even the sun can’t shine on an entire world at once.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, perspective, popular, quotes, revised, sun, terri guillemets

Mind full

2025 March 16th1996 February 5th

Walking is good for solving problems — it’s like the feet are little psychiatrists.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, therapy, walking

Process

2025 April 18th1996 February 5th

Your healing will never be complete if you treat it as a destination.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, healing, quotes, terri guillemets

Logic all

2025 March 16th1996 February 1st

If the world were all logic, poetry would starve to death.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, art & artists, poetry: about, quotes, terri guillemets

Haven

2025 April 18th1996 January 10th

My favorite place to be is snuggled up in your heart.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Correspondence Tags -all posts-, heart, love, quotes, terri guillemets

@Risk

2025 April 18th1995 December 29th

Life is like running with scissors
naked through freezing blizzards

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, favorites, ha ha, life, poems, silly, terri guillemets

Final draft

2025 March 16th1995 December 22nd

When the poem just won’t come out right, sometimes the best revision is to crumple it up and throw it poetically into the trash.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, poetry: about, quotes, terri guillemets, writing

Self-help

2025 March 16th1995 December 14th

The secret to wellness is being your own guardian angel.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, angels, health, note to self, quotes, revised, self, terri guillemets, wellness, work hard
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