Terri Guillemets Archives — 1997
This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 1997 — 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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New beginnings happen every day.
TITLE: Eternally
DATE: 1997 Jan 1
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
TITLE: Run for it!
DATE: 1997 Nov 8
Writing poetry
is letting go —
once the words leave your pen
they're out of your soul —
and the therapy has begun.
DATE: 1997 Jan 4
NOTES: revised
Death bumps into life many times as just a passerby, says excuse me then goes on his way.
TITLE: Fortunate misfortunes
DATE: 1997 Jul 11
NOTES: revised
Belief stains darker, imprints deeper than truth.
DATE: 1997 Nov 6
Humans have an odd ecology.
DATE: 1997 Nov 18
Religion is faith in anything other than ourselves.
TITLE: Illusions
SOURCE: college essay
DATE: 1997 Feb 17
Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.
TITLE: Ageless
DATE: 1997 Feb 24
Be a student of life and a lifelong student.
TITLE: In Progress
DATE: 1997 Mar 8
Don't edit the demons — let them scream.
TITLE: Unabashed
DATE: 1997 Nov 14
Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.
DATE: 1997 Aug 22
We are creatures trapped in culture.
DATE: 1997 Dec 9
My heart is glass, daily shattered.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1997 Jan 3
HASHTAG: HSP
Can plants be happy? If they get what they need, they thrive — that's what I know.
TITLE: Lessons from Nature to the Human Heart
DATE: 1997 Mar 30
NOTES: revised
Big bang —
see stars.
TITLE: Concussion
DATE: 1997 Jul 6
I'm more a philosophical connoisseur of tea than an actual drinker of the stuff.
DATE: 1997 Apr 19
AGE: twenty-three
180°: six years later
...the fairy dust of poetry and glittery hope of dreams...
TITLE: Fuel
DATE: 1997 Jul 6
Time. Tick. Time. Tock. Time.
tempus fugit, breve est
ruit hora, carpe diem
lente hora, celeriter anni
TITLE: Year-hand
SOURCE: journal poem
DATE: 1997 Oct 26
Walking gets the body moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.
DATE: 1997 Nov 6
NOTES: revised
Poetry is an ethereal garden crying rhyming tears of roses.
TITLE: Fairie aerial
DATE: 1997 Nov 8
NOTES: revised
Poetry is a garden haunted by the sound of whispering roses.
TITLE: Rock paper ink
DATE: 1997 Nov 8
NOTES: revised
To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear.
DATE: 1997 Feb 24
God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases.
DATE: 1997 Sep 30
NOTES: My little variation of a quotation by Jacques Deval: "God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."
Trees —
Long-standing hearts of nature
Absorbers of human angst
DATE: 1997 Apr 5
NOTES: revised
The universe will do the writing for you, if you just listen close enough.
DATE: 1997 Nov 15
NOTES: It's poetic grammar, Mom.
Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you.
DATE: 1997 Aug 30
Labels? Okay, fine. Bisensual. Heteroflexible.Life-curious. That about covers it.
DATE: 1997 Dec 7
NOTES: revised
If trouble hearing Angels song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart.
DATE: 1997 Nov 28
If you are walking to seek, ye shall find.
DATE: 1997 Feb 24
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New beginnings happen every day.
TITLE: Eternally
DATE: 1997 Jan 1
Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
TITLE: Run for it!
DATE: 1997 Nov 8
Writing poetry
is letting go —
once the words leave your pen
they're out of your soul —
and the therapy has begun.
DATE: 1997 Jan 4
NOTES: revised
Death bumps into life many times as just a passerby, says excuse me then goes on his way.
TITLE: Fortunate misfortunes
DATE: 1997 Jul 11
NOTES: revised
Belief stains darker, imprints deeper than truth.
DATE: 1997 Nov 6
Humans have an odd ecology.
DATE: 1997 Nov 18
Religion is faith in anything other than ourselves.
TITLE: Illusions
SOURCE: college essay
DATE: 1997 Feb 17
Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.
TITLE: Ageless
DATE: 1997 Feb 24
Be a student of life and a lifelong student.
TITLE: In Progress
DATE: 1997 Mar 8
Don't edit the demons — let them scream.
TITLE: Unabashed
DATE: 1997 Nov 14
Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.
DATE: 1997 Aug 22
We are creatures trapped in culture.
DATE: 1997 Dec 9
My heart is glass, daily shattered.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 1997 Jan 3
HASHTAG: HSP
Can plants be happy? If they get what they need, they thrive — that's what I know.
TITLE: Lessons from Nature to the Human Heart
DATE: 1997 Mar 30
NOTES: revised
Big bang —
see stars.
TITLE: Concussion
DATE: 1997 Jul 6
I'm more a philosophical connoisseur of tea than an actual drinker of the stuff.
DATE: 1997 Apr 19
AGE: twenty-three
180°: six years later
...the fairy dust of poetry and glittery hope of dreams...
TITLE: Fuel
DATE: 1997 Jul 6
Time. Tick. Time. Tock. Time.
tempus fugit, breve est
ruit hora, carpe diem
lente hora, celeriter anni
TITLE: Year-hand
SOURCE: journal poem
DATE: 1997 Oct 26
Walking gets the body moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.
DATE: 1997 Nov 6
NOTES: revised
Poetry is an ethereal garden crying rhyming tears of roses.
TITLE: Fairie aerial
DATE: 1997 Nov 8
NOTES: revised
Poetry is a garden haunted by the sound of whispering roses.
TITLE: Rock paper ink
DATE: 1997 Nov 8
NOTES: revised
To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear.
DATE: 1997 Feb 24
God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases.
DATE: 1997 Sep 30
NOTES: My little variation of a quotation by Jacques Deval: "God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."
Trees —
Long-standing hearts of nature
Absorbers of human angst
DATE: 1997 Apr 5
NOTES: revised
The universe will do the writing for you, if you just listen close enough.
DATE: 1997 Nov 15
NOTES: It's poetic grammar, Mom.
Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you.
DATE: 1997 Aug 30
Labels? Okay, fine. Bisensual. Heteroflexible.
DATE: 1997 Dec 7
NOTES: revised
If trouble hearing Angels song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart.
DATE: 1997 Nov 28
If you are walking to seek, ye shall find.
DATE: 1997 Feb 24