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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.

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Process

2025 April 18th1996 February 5th

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

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Logic all

2025 March 16th1996 February 1st

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

Terri Guillemets

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Haven

2025 April 18th1996 January 10th

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

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@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.

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Stories of love

2025 March 16th1995 November 6th

In a new love, it’s easy to live for the moment because there is no past. The more past you accumulate, the harder it is not to live there — and that’s true whether it’s good or bad.

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Petals & leaves

2025 March 16th1995 September 12th

i love to
smell the flowers
and sniff the books
sitting in gardens
and library nooks

Terri Guillemets

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Our path

2025 March 16th1995 September 9th

A morning walk starts us off on the right foot for the day.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, exercise & fitness, health, morning, quotes, terri guillemets, walking, wellness

Campfire

2025 March 16th1995 August 12th

campfire flames kiss the night
stars in distant skies blaze bright
ghost story whispers all affright
rustling sounds just out of sight

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, ghosts & supernatural, nature, night sky, outdoors, poems, senses, stars, stories & storytelling, terri guillemets

Free but homesick

2025 April 15th1995 August 11th

Only those in tune with nature seem to pick up on the energy in wind. All sorts of things get swept off in the breeze — ghosts, pieces of soul, voices unsung, thoughts repressed, love uncherished, and a thousands galore of spiritual ether.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, energy, metaphysical & mystical, nature, outdoors, quotes, terri guillemets, weather, wind & breeze
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