Terri Guillemets Archives — 1980s
This is the archive of my publicly published writing from the 1980s — the good, the bad, the active and the retired. Some entries were originally untitled with a title added later, and some were first published under other pen names.
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My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.
TITLE: April morning
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Apr 16
LOCATION: Phoenix, Arizona
Fossils are what 'now' looked like forever ago.
TITLE: Rockers of science
SOURCE: school homework
DATE: 1988 Jan 13
Sometimes a really good nap is more refreshing than an entire night's sleep.
TITLE: Comforter
DATE: 1989 Dec 30
Just so you know, I lied about my weight on my poetic license.
TITLE: Abridged
DATE: 1989 Oct 27
DEDICATED TO:Ms Dianne Post (1944–2017)
Passion does not study anatomy in books.
TITLE: Venules
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Oct 21
If falling in love feels this good, being in love must be intolerable.
TITLE: Dissecting hearts
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 May 19
I’m an insomniacaholic
if there is such a thing
well, I know there is —
I am one, and their king!
TITLE: Insomniacaholic
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Jan 17
NOTES: revised
Sometimes I get overwhelmed by nothing.
TITLE: A million invisible nothings
SOURCE: journal poem
DATE: 1987 Oct 26
A relationship will eventually turn love inside out. And the test is whether you can love from both sides.
TITLE: The next day
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Apr 27
NOTES: revised
Life is a dance of balance.
Life is creative falling.
Life is half spent getting back up.
Life is learning to dance with a partner —
and learning to dance without a partner,
and letting go enough to dance in the crowd.
Life is a freestyle jig.
Life is a twirl and a bow.
Life is the best dance you've ever danced
and the only chance you'll get, so dance!
Death is your dancing soul returning to the heavens.
TITLE: Sessile
DATE: 1989 May 13
NOTES: revised
Sometimes I feel like life misprinted me.
TITLE: XV reasons
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Oct 26
The best part of happiness is the pines.
TITLE: Happy in the forest
SOURCE: diary
DATE: 1986 Jun 28
LOCATION: Lynx Lake, Arizona
Sometimes prayers collide and miracles are born.
TITLE: Jane & the sun
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Feb 12
Evolution: that last step was a doozy!
TITLE: It's staggering
DATE: 1988 Dec 12
Grandmas and grandpas are grand-angels.
SOURCE: diary
DATE: 1987 Feb 1
LOCATION: Dewey, Arizona
NOTES: revised
Hail is angry rain.
TITLE: Coldhearted
DATE: 1987 Oct 29
If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.
TITLE: Bass & beats
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Apr 29
AGE: fifteen
They must've abbreviated us AZ because we have the entire spectrum of weather extremes:"A" blaze in the Phoenix sun to "Z"ero-degree snow in Flagstaff.
TITLE: Arizona alphabet
DATE: 1989 Nov 11
Forest air is magical.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Jul 16
LOCATION: Flagstaff, Arizona
Beach air is magical.
SOURCE: diary
DATE: 1987 Jul 21
LOCATION: San Diego, California
I still believe in some faraway place where it's all okay.
TITLE: Ewbanh
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 May 12
Words want to be free!
DATE: 1989 Dec 1
Before, comma—
Now, dash;
Forever, stop.
TITLE: A question of time
DATE: 1989 Jan 7
NOTES: revised
It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.
TITLE: Healing kind
SOURCE: diary
DATE: 1986 Apr 23
AGE: twelve
CONTEXT: trying to nurse a sick baby bird back to health
Rain is my favorite color
Autumn's breath is too
Sunshine on the water
A sunset breeze's hue
The taste of freedom excites me
And the smell of love brand new
I touch your soul and feel its silk
Hear the silence and know it's true
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Mar 25
I don't understand anything anymore and it scares me to think about what I would know if I did understand anything.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Nov 5
AGE: freshly fifteen
My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him.
TITLE: Flustered
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Mar 13
AGE: fourteen
Life is a surprise party.
TITLE: Ribbons & shock
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Mar 13
Nature never goes out of style.
TITLE: Beneath the pine
DATE: 1989 Mar 18
Rain showers my spirit
and cleanses my soul.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Mar 26
NOTES: revised
I guess I have to face reality. But as long as I know reality is there, I can still dream.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Oct 27
America has as much diversity in peoples as it does in geographies.
TITLE: Civics and supper
DATE: 1988 Sep 28
NOTES: revised
School, work,
Rip. Schoolwork,
Rip. School, work, laundry,
Rip. School, sore throat, doctor,
Rip. School, exam, sleep,
Rip. Work, errands, nap, play,
Rip. Work, yardwork, homework, TV,
Rip…
TITLE: Page-A-Day Life
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Oct 6
AGE: brink of sixteen
She named the kitten Rose — fur soft as petals, claws sharper than thorns.
TITLE: Cuddly heart
DATE: 1987 May 16
NOTES: revised
Kittens are angels with whiskers.
TITLE: Trouble on the side
DATE: 1987 May 15
Read past bedtime,—
Books light the night.
TITLE: Lamp-lit
DATE: 1989 Nov 3
NOTES: revised
Which shines brighter — the candle or the book?
TITLE: Night reading
DATE: 1989 Mar 7
Be the dot on the exclamation point of life!
TITLE: Enthus¡asm
DATE: 1989 Apr 6
Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
DATE: 1987 Jun 11
Glitter fools as much as gold.
SOURCE: "Desert Future"
DATE: 1989 Mar 20
LOCATION: Phoenix, Arizona
NOTES: In high school I wrote a short story about a future in which there was a major drought and as part of the water restrictions, leg shaving was forbidden. My main character, Alexis, invented a dry adhesive glitter rub that women could apply to their legs to glam up the hair so that they could still feel pretty.
Hardship is best sailed with a heart ship.
TITLE: Knocking hard
SOURCE: dream
DATE: 1989 Apr 29
Music rocks my soul and jazzes up my life.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Mar 5
If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are.
DATE: 1987 Dec 18
The magic that keeps the dot floating over the 'j' and the 'i' is the same magic that keeps the moon in the sky and best friends by each others' sides.
DATE: 1987 Apr 4
AGE: thirteen
Oil and potatoes both grow underground so french fries may have eventually produced themselves, had they not been invented.
DATE: 1988 Aug 24
NOTES: OMfG, facepalm! what goes on in 14-year-old brains.
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My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.
TITLE: April morning
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Apr 16
LOCATION: Phoenix, Arizona
Fossils are what 'now' looked like forever ago.
TITLE: Rockers of science
SOURCE: school homework
DATE: 1988 Jan 13
Sometimes a really good nap is more refreshing than an entire night's sleep.
TITLE: Comforter
DATE: 1989 Dec 30
Just so you know, I lied about my weight on my poetic license.
TITLE: Abridged
DATE: 1989 Oct 27
DEDICATED TO:
Passion does not study anatomy in books.
TITLE: Venules
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Oct 21
If falling in love feels this good, being in love must be intolerable.
TITLE: Dissecting hearts
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 May 19
I’m an insomniacaholic
if there is such a thing
well, I know there is —
I am one, and their king!
TITLE: Insomniacaholic
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Jan 17
NOTES: revised
Sometimes I get overwhelmed by nothing.
TITLE: A million invisible nothings
SOURCE: journal poem
DATE: 1987 Oct 26
A relationship will eventually turn love inside out. And the test is whether you can love from both sides.
TITLE: The next day
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Apr 27
NOTES: revised
Life is a dance of balance.
Life is creative falling.
Life is half spent getting back up.
Life is learning to dance with a partner —
and learning to dance without a partner,
and letting go enough to dance in the crowd.
Life is a freestyle jig.
Life is a twirl and a bow.
Life is the best dance you've ever danced
and the only chance you'll get, so dance!
Death is your dancing soul returning to the heavens.
TITLE: Sessile
DATE: 1989 May 13
NOTES: revised
Sometimes I feel like life misprinted me.
TITLE: XV reasons
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Oct 26
The best part of happiness is the pines.
TITLE: Happy in the forest
SOURCE: diary
DATE: 1986 Jun 28
LOCATION: Lynx Lake, Arizona
Sometimes prayers collide and miracles are born.
TITLE: Jane & the sun
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Feb 12
Evolution: that last step was a doozy!
TITLE: It's staggering
DATE: 1988 Dec 12
Grandmas and grandpas are grand-angels.
SOURCE: diary
DATE: 1987 Feb 1
LOCATION: Dewey, Arizona
NOTES: revised
Hail is angry rain.
TITLE: Coldhearted
DATE: 1987 Oct 29
If I ever die of a heart attack, I hope it will be from playing my stereo too loud.
TITLE: Bass & beats
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Apr 29
AGE: fifteen
They must've abbreviated us AZ because we have the entire spectrum of weather extremes:
TITLE: Arizona alphabet
DATE: 1989 Nov 11
Forest air is magical.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Jul 16
LOCATION: Flagstaff, Arizona
Beach air is magical.
SOURCE: diary
DATE: 1987 Jul 21
LOCATION: San Diego, California
I still believe in some faraway place where it's all okay.
TITLE: Ewbanh
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 May 12
Words want to be free!
DATE: 1989 Dec 1
Before, comma—
Now, dash;
Forever, stop.
TITLE: A question of time
DATE: 1989 Jan 7
NOTES: revised
It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.
TITLE: Healing kind
SOURCE: diary
DATE: 1986 Apr 23
AGE: twelve
CONTEXT: trying to nurse a sick baby bird back to health
Rain is my favorite color
Autumn's breath is too
Sunshine on the water
A sunset breeze's hue
The taste of freedom excites me
And the smell of love brand new
I touch your soul and feel its silk
Hear the silence and know it's true
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Mar 25
I don't understand anything anymore and it scares me to think about what I would know if I did understand anything.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Nov 5
AGE: freshly fifteen
My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him.
TITLE: Flustered
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Mar 13
AGE: fourteen
Life is a surprise party.
TITLE: Ribbons & shock
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Mar 13
Nature never goes out of style.
TITLE: Beneath the pine
DATE: 1989 Mar 18
Rain showers my spirit
and cleanses my soul.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Mar 26
NOTES: revised
I guess I have to face reality. But as long as I know reality is there, I can still dream.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Oct 27
America has as much diversity in peoples as it does in geographies.
TITLE: Civics and supper
DATE: 1988 Sep 28
NOTES: revised
School, work,
Rip. Schoolwork,
Rip. School, work, laundry,
Rip. School, sore throat, doctor,
Rip. School, exam, sleep,
Rip. Work, errands, nap, play,
Rip. Work, yardwork, homework, TV,
Rip…
TITLE: Page-A-Day Life
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1989 Oct 6
AGE: brink of sixteen
She named the kitten Rose — fur soft as petals, claws sharper than thorns.
TITLE: Cuddly heart
DATE: 1987 May 16
NOTES: revised
Kittens are angels with whiskers.
TITLE: Trouble on the side
DATE: 1987 May 15
Read past bedtime,—
Books light the night.
TITLE: Lamp-lit
DATE: 1989 Nov 3
NOTES: revised
Which shines brighter — the candle or the book?
TITLE: Night reading
DATE: 1989 Mar 7
Be the dot on the exclamation point of life!
TITLE: Enthus¡asm
DATE: 1989 Apr 6
Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
DATE: 1987 Jun 11
Glitter fools as much as gold.
SOURCE: "Desert Future"
DATE: 1989 Mar 20
LOCATION: Phoenix, Arizona
NOTES: In high school I wrote a short story about a future in which there was a major drought and as part of the water restrictions, leg shaving was forbidden. My main character, Alexis, invented a dry adhesive glitter rub that women could apply to their legs to glam up the hair so that they could still feel pretty.
Hardship is best sailed with a heart ship.
TITLE: Knocking hard
SOURCE: dream
DATE: 1989 Apr 29
Music rocks my soul and jazzes up my life.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1988 Mar 5
If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are.
DATE: 1987 Dec 18
The magic that keeps the dot floating over the 'j' and the 'i' is the same magic that keeps the moon in the sky and best friends by each others' sides.
DATE: 1987 Apr 4
AGE: thirteen
Oil and potatoes both grow underground so french fries may have eventually produced themselves, had they not been invented.
DATE: 1988 Aug 24
NOTES: OMfG, facepalm! what goes on in 14-year-old brains.