Terri Guillemets Archives — 2003
This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 2003 — the good, the bad, the active and the retired. It includes filler written for The Quote Garden as well as personal journals and writings. Some entries were originally untitled with a title added later, and some were first published under other pen names.
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thorns and stings
and those such things
just make stronger
our angel wings
TITLE: Pierced flight
DATE: 2003 Jun 3
Small kindnesses make you a bigger person.
DATE: 2003 Jan 21
Clouds are the sky's imagination.
DATE: 2003 Jan 16
If organic is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?
TITLE: Soiled
DATE: 2003 Apr 22
NOTES: revised
Pain looks like a lot of things. You may not recognize it when you see it.
TITLE: Faces & temptation
DATE: 2003 Jan 3
the poet is a sensitive snail
wandering along the path of life
leaving a glittering trail of words
TITLE: Inching along, leaving behind
DATE: 2003 Jan 19
NOTES: revised
Midnight — the luller
Midnight — the advisor
Midnight — the fabulist
TITLE: Alone in mid-night
DATE: 2003 Apr 22
The world constantly sways me between poet and malcontent.
DATE: 2003 Jun 5
Experience is climbing the ladder built from your mistakes.
DATE: 2003 Jan 22
Even if you lose a ray or two of your star, keep shining.
DATE: 2003 Apr 18
NOTES: revised
Sometimes we can't let go of the pain because we think it's the only thing holding us together.
DATE: 2003 Jun 11
Flawed past is history; flawed present is opportunity.
DATE: 2003 Aug 23
NOTES: revised
Tea — a moment of peace in the constant battles of life.
TITLE: Tea in the stratosphere
DATE: 2003 Apr 19
NOTES: revised
Dust is particles of the past. If you clean, you're wiping away all those good memories.
DATE: 2003 Mar 2
Night introduces your own bare soul to you.
TITLE: Alone in mid-night
DATE: 2003 Apr 22
The night goes dark, and we see ourselves in our own light.
TITLE: Alone in mid-night
DATE: 2003 Apr 22
Life is a perpetual give and take with the universe.
TITLE: After all
DATE: 2003 Oct 5
Age is a gradual steamrolling of youth.
DATE: 2003 Oct 26
A photograph is memory in the raw.
DATE: 2003 May 7
Volunteers wear work-boots but leave a trail of angel footprints.
DATE: 2003 Aug 27
NOTES: revised
My life is half reality show, half Saturday morning cartoons.
TITLE: Real funny
DATE: 2003 Aug 28
Party on! Today's stress has been cancelled, courtesy of chocolate.
DATE: 2003 Jun 5
What are you waiting for?
Nature is patient — but
You are procrastinating.
TITLE: Note to Self
DATE: 2003 Oct 7
If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow.
DATE: 2003 Jan 20
The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right.
DATE: 2003 Jan 1
With a library card you can book a trip around the world and beyond without ever leaving home.
TITLE: Pages of life
DATE: 2003 Sep 18
Indeed, let us not forget,
But also let us not dwell.
DATE: 2003 Jun 11
Night-time moon —
glowing, muted, soft
distant light to soothe
our harshly lit days
DATE: 2003 Jan 18
Pray so hard your words glow in the dark.
DATE: 2003 Jan 24
Poetry — soul cartography.
TITLE: Treasure seeking you
DATE: 2003 Feb 16
Writing poetry is herding stars.
DATE: 2003 Feb 28
Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink.
DATE: 2003 Jan 3
Happiness —
don't grasp.
TITLE: Life is slippery
DATE: 2003 Jan 3
NOTES: revised
If only Peace were the surname of all mankind.
DATE: 2003 Mar 2
A man has gray hair; a poet has locks as silvery as long-lost treasure.
DATE: 2003 Mar 13
We're all just stardust with a personality.
DATE: 2003 Jul 2
Death is at the end of everyone's map. But Life is the capital, and you are here —and now.
TITLE: You Are Here
DATE: 2003 Jul 31
We see so many things that aren't there
and don't see so many more that are —
we eyed humans are the blindest animals.
TITLE: Oblivious
DATE: 2003 Oct 9
Winter is a slow, elegant dance to springtime.
DATE: 2003 Nov 15
Don't let your hatred gossip.
DATE: 2003 Nov 25
It's just life. Just live it.
DATE: 2003 Mar 28
A poem is a carefully gathered bucket of stars.
DATE: 2003 Dec 24
There's nothing more freeing than the shackles of love.
DATE: 2003 Apr 17
If I got cut,
the blood wouldn't fall
to the ground,
it would spring up
out of my arm
and dance around
on the air and yell
"Surprise! part of you
is still alive."
I'm sorry, blood,
for trapping you
in this graveyard body.
TITLE: Hemogoblin
DATE: 2003 Nov 14
a flower in an old book
dried as dry can be
but beautiful in its colors
a bookmark to eternity
TITLE: Desi C. Cate
DATE: 2003 May 26
NOTES: revised
when our lips meet
we become the colors
of each other's souls
DATE: 2003 Apr 18
NOTES: revised
Love here on earth
Love beyond the grave
There are no roads
My love for you can't pave.
DATE: 2003 Mar 2
You and I have our own special dictionary, and
no one else knows what we mean when we love.
DATE: 2003 Apr 18
I love America. I love the world. Brotherhood and sisterhood have no borders. My heart orbits the Earth. Love cannot be measured in longitude or latitude.
DATE: 2003 Mar 29
…my candle to the Milky Way…
TITLE: A winter night's perspective
DATE: 2003 Dec 26
The refined scholar sustains himself on the finest aged wines of poetry but should take time occasionally to partake of cheap-ale words.
TITLE: Drinking literature
DATE: 2003 Oct 28
Be a love pharmacist: dispense hugs like medicine — they are!
DATE: 2003 Nov 12
His heart beat only love — not a drop of hate-tinged blood in his body.
DATE: 2003 Jul 8
The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace.
DATE: 2003 Feb 3
A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip.
DATE: 2003 Jan 28
Coffee smiles us into the day.
DATE: 2003 Apr 18
Happiness sugars my coffee.
DATE: 2003 Apr 18
My life is a twisted rainbow.
DATE: 2003 Jul 1
Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins, I just can't fit you into my scheduleright now.
DATE: 2003 Apr 25
O' peppermint tea —
two delights per sip
as steamy hot as passion
cool as a wintry lake dip
DATE: 2003 Jun 30
Raindrops resplendent with angels patter my head and drizzle God's love over me. Wet rejoicing abounds!
DATE: 2003 Dec 11
Like age, a new year is just a number.
TITLE: MMIV
DATE: 2003 Dec 26
A crisis pauses during tea.
DATE: 2003 Dec 13
My life flows through the veins of a tea leaf.
TITLE: Celestial grounding
DATE: 2003 Jun 30
I would gladly take a $1/hour paycut to be allowed to wear jeans every day of the week.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2003 Dec 5
I have my nose stuck in a book just about as often as I breathe.
DATE: 2003 Dec 26
If you're going to tickle, use a feather not a whip.
DATE: 2003 Apr 17
Why don't we call our menstrual time of each cycle — a monthly pause in fertility — a "menopause," and call menopause "the period" at the end of our menstrual sentence?
TITLE: Tripping on our senses
DATE: 2003 Aug 8
He looked back on his life, skating over most of it with a hollow nostalgia.
DATE: 2003 Aug 4
Her innocent soul was made of fairy dust and dreams.
TITLE: Sweet
DATE: 2003 Mar 3
Climb the ladder of dead mistakes to your goal.
TITLE: Wallowing in them will rot you
DATE: 2003 Jan 22
Ah well, a morning with weak coffee is still beaucoup better than a morning with no coffee.
TITLE: I'll take what I can get
DATE: 2003 Jun 29
I cry sad words and
giggle happy thoughts.
DATE: 2003 Jun 14
It was a small'ish bookstore. Yet is not any bookstore large to a bibliophile's heart?
DATE: 2003 Jun 20
World peace is a global smile.
TITLE: Cheers to hope
DATE: 2003 Jun 3
NOTES: or "would be," more accurately
If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness.
DATE: 2003 Sep 22
dragon heads and fairie tales
dreams afire with billowing sails
TITLE: Later reverie
DATE: 2003 Jun 21
If you can look at a tail-wagging dog and not feel vicarious excitement and affection, then clearly you are not human but cat.
DATE: 2003 Jun 15
NOTES: revised
Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in a highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable place of complete uninhibition.
TITLE: Ceramic Elvis
DATE: 2003 Apr 17
NOTES: revised
Las Vegas — America's favorite desert mirage.
DATE: 2003 Apr 17
NOTES: revised
Intellectual property is about laws. Intellectual property should be about respect.
TITLE: Where's the respect?
DATE: 2003 Oct 17
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thorns and stings
and those such things
just make stronger
our angel wings
TITLE: Pierced flight
DATE: 2003 Jun 3
Small kindnesses make you a bigger person.
DATE: 2003 Jan 21
Clouds are the sky's imagination.
DATE: 2003 Jan 16
If organic is the natural way, shouldn't organic produce just be called "produce" and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?
TITLE: Soiled
DATE: 2003 Apr 22
NOTES: revised
Pain looks like a lot of things. You may not recognize it when you see it.
TITLE: Faces & temptation
DATE: 2003 Jan 3
the poet is a sensitive snail
wandering along the path of life
leaving a glittering trail of words
TITLE: Inching along, leaving behind
DATE: 2003 Jan 19
NOTES: revised
Midnight — the luller
Midnight — the advisor
Midnight — the fabulist
TITLE: Alone in mid-night
DATE: 2003 Apr 22
The world constantly sways me between poet and malcontent.
DATE: 2003 Jun 5
Experience is climbing the ladder built from your mistakes.
DATE: 2003 Jan 22
Even if you lose a ray or two of your star, keep shining.
DATE: 2003 Apr 18
NOTES: revised
Sometimes we can't let go of the pain because we think it's the only thing holding us together.
DATE: 2003 Jun 11
Flawed past is history; flawed present is opportunity.
DATE: 2003 Aug 23
NOTES: revised
Tea — a moment of peace in the constant battles of life.
TITLE: Tea in the stratosphere
DATE: 2003 Apr 19
NOTES: revised
Dust is particles of the past. If you clean, you're wiping away all those good memories.
DATE: 2003 Mar 2
Night introduces your own bare soul to you.
TITLE: Alone in mid-night
DATE: 2003 Apr 22
The night goes dark, and we see ourselves in our own light.
TITLE: Alone in mid-night
DATE: 2003 Apr 22
Life is a perpetual give and take with the universe.
TITLE: After all
DATE: 2003 Oct 5
Age is a gradual steamrolling of youth.
DATE: 2003 Oct 26
A photograph is memory in the raw.
DATE: 2003 May 7
Volunteers wear work-boots but leave a trail of angel footprints.
DATE: 2003 Aug 27
NOTES: revised
My life is half reality show, half Saturday morning cartoons.
TITLE: Real funny
DATE: 2003 Aug 28
Party on! Today's stress has been cancelled, courtesy of chocolate.
DATE: 2003 Jun 5
What are you waiting for?
Nature is patient — but
You are procrastinating.
TITLE: Note to Self
DATE: 2003 Oct 7
If you've got a poem within you today, I can guarantee you a tomorrow.
DATE: 2003 Jan 20
The perfect temperature for tea is two degrees hotter than just right.
DATE: 2003 Jan 1
With a library card you can book a trip around the world and beyond without ever leaving home.
TITLE: Pages of life
DATE: 2003 Sep 18
Indeed, let us not forget,
But also let us not dwell.
DATE: 2003 Jun 11
Night-time moon —
glowing, muted, soft
distant light to soothe
our harshly lit days
DATE: 2003 Jan 18
Pray so hard your words glow in the dark.
DATE: 2003 Jan 24
Poetry — soul cartography.
TITLE: Treasure seeking you
DATE: 2003 Feb 16
Writing poetry is herding stars.
DATE: 2003 Feb 28
Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink.
DATE: 2003 Jan 3
Happiness —
don't grasp.
TITLE: Life is slippery
DATE: 2003 Jan 3
NOTES: revised
If only Peace were the surname of all mankind.
DATE: 2003 Mar 2
A man has gray hair; a poet has locks as silvery as long-lost treasure.
DATE: 2003 Mar 13
We're all just stardust with a personality.
DATE: 2003 Jul 2
Death is at the end of everyone's map. But Life is the capital, and you are here —
TITLE: You Are Here
DATE: 2003 Jul 31
We see so many things that aren't there
and don't see so many more that are —
we eyed humans are the blindest animals.
TITLE: Oblivious
DATE: 2003 Oct 9
Winter is a slow, elegant dance to springtime.
DATE: 2003 Nov 15
Don't let your hatred gossip.
DATE: 2003 Nov 25
It's just life. Just live it.
DATE: 2003 Mar 28
A poem is a carefully gathered bucket of stars.
DATE: 2003 Dec 24
There's nothing more freeing than the shackles of love.
DATE: 2003 Apr 17
If I got cut,
the blood wouldn't fall
to the ground,
it would spring up
out of my arm
and dance around
on the air and yell
"Surprise! part of you
is still alive."
I'm sorry, blood,
for trapping you
in this graveyard body.
TITLE: Hemogoblin
DATE: 2003 Nov 14
a flower in an old book
dried as dry can be
but beautiful in its colors
a bookmark to eternity
TITLE: Desi C. Cate
DATE: 2003 May 26
NOTES: revised
when our lips meet
we become the colors
of each other's souls
DATE: 2003 Apr 18
NOTES: revised
Love here on earth
Love beyond the grave
There are no roads
My love for you can't pave.
DATE: 2003 Mar 2
You and I have our own special dictionary, and
no one else knows what we mean when we love.
DATE: 2003 Apr 18
I love America. I love the world. Brotherhood and sisterhood have no borders. My heart orbits the Earth. Love cannot be measured in longitude or latitude.
DATE: 2003 Mar 29
…my candle to the Milky Way…
TITLE: A winter night's perspective
DATE: 2003 Dec 26
The refined scholar sustains himself on the finest aged wines of poetry but should take time occasionally to partake of cheap-ale words.
TITLE: Drinking literature
DATE: 2003 Oct 28
Be a love pharmacist: dispense hugs like medicine — they are!
DATE: 2003 Nov 12
His heart beat only love — not a drop of hate-tinged blood in his body.
DATE: 2003 Jul 8
The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace.
DATE: 2003 Feb 3
A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip.
DATE: 2003 Jan 28
Coffee smiles us into the day.
DATE: 2003 Apr 18
Happiness sugars my coffee.
DATE: 2003 Apr 18
My life is a twisted rainbow.
DATE: 2003 Jul 1
Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins, I just can't fit you into my schedule
DATE: 2003 Apr 25
O' peppermint tea —
two delights per sip
as steamy hot as passion
cool as a wintry lake dip
DATE: 2003 Jun 30
Raindrops resplendent with angels patter my head and drizzle God's love over me. Wet rejoicing abounds!
DATE: 2003 Dec 11
Like age, a new year is just a number.
TITLE: MMIV
DATE: 2003 Dec 26
A crisis pauses during tea.
DATE: 2003 Dec 13
My life flows through the veins of a tea leaf.
TITLE: Celestial grounding
DATE: 2003 Jun 30
I would gladly take a $1/hour paycut to be allowed to wear jeans every day of the week.
SOURCE: journal
DATE: 2003 Dec 5
I have my nose stuck in a book just about as often as I breathe.
DATE: 2003 Dec 26
If you're going to tickle, use a feather not a whip.
DATE: 2003 Apr 17
Why don't we call our menstrual time of each cycle — a monthly pause in fertility — a "menopause," and call menopause "the period" at the end of our menstrual sentence?
TITLE: Tripping on our senses
DATE: 2003 Aug 8
He looked back on his life, skating over most of it with a hollow nostalgia.
DATE: 2003 Aug 4
Her innocent soul was made of fairy dust and dreams.
TITLE: Sweet
DATE: 2003 Mar 3
Climb the ladder of dead mistakes to your goal.
TITLE: Wallowing in them will rot you
DATE: 2003 Jan 22
Ah well, a morning with weak coffee is still beaucoup better than a morning with no coffee.
TITLE: I'll take what I can get
DATE: 2003 Jun 29
I cry sad words and
giggle happy thoughts.
DATE: 2003 Jun 14
It was a small'ish bookstore. Yet is not any bookstore large to a bibliophile's heart?
DATE: 2003 Jun 20
World peace is a global smile.
TITLE: Cheers to hope
DATE: 2003 Jun 3
NOTES: or "would be," more accurately
If I'm trying to sleep, the ideas won't stop. If I'm trying to write, there appears a barren nothingness.
DATE: 2003 Sep 22
dragon heads and fairie tales
dreams afire with billowing sails
TITLE: Later reverie
DATE: 2003 Jun 21
If you can look at a tail-wagging dog and not feel vicarious excitement and affection, then clearly you are not human but cat.
DATE: 2003 Jun 15
NOTES: revised
Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in a highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable place of complete uninhibition.
TITLE: Ceramic Elvis
DATE: 2003 Apr 17
NOTES: revised
Las Vegas — America's favorite desert mirage.
DATE: 2003 Apr 17
NOTES: revised
Intellectual property is about laws. Intellectual property should be about respect.
TITLE: Where's the respect?
DATE: 2003 Oct 17