Terri Guillemets Archives — 2004
This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 2004 — 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.
—tg
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Don't trade your life for just an empty hourglass.
DATE: 2004 Jan 17
NOTES: revised
We may as well make
friends with Change —
the instant the Moon is full
it's already starting to wane
DATE: 2004 May 4
Too many of us have a skipping spirit but a sit-still body.
TITLE: Move it
DATE: 2004 May 13
A poet can translate birdsong much more faithfully than the biologist ever could.
DATE: 2004 May 22
You can't spell social anxiety without society.
TITLE: SOCial anxIETY
DATE: 2004 Feb 1
Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.
DATE: 2004 Jan 5
Spring stirs under silent snow.
DATE: 2004 Jan 12
Follow the seasons. Follow your heart. Lead by example. Lead with love, alongside simplicity and courage, embracing duty, shunning fear.
DATE: 2004 Feb 7
Weeds —
is there really evil in their hearts
or are they simply feisty seeds —
ambitious verdant darts,
proliferous garden art?
TITLE: Fertilize & philosophize
DATE: 2004 Mar 3
Desserts are the fairy tales of dining — a happily-ever-after to supper.
DATE: 2004 Apr 1
Egotism is overvaluing your little speck of the universe.
DATE: 2004 Feb 25
Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters.
DATE: 2004 Jul 28
Candy is sugar that's all dressed up for the party.
TITLE: Refined
DATE: 2004 Oct 31
...after-storm birds singing the color into rainbows...
DATE: 2004 Mar 4
If you treat the unknown as a minefield and never enter, you may avoid getting blasted but won't ever get to run along with the butterflies.
DATE: 2004 Jul 3
Grief is all emotions wrapped into one.
✻ ✻ ✻
Grief is all emotions wrapped into one exhaustive sadness.
✻ ✻ ✻
Grief is feeling everything humanly possible.
DATE: 2004 Jul 29
The time you think you're missing misses you too.
DATE: 2004 Mar 12
If stars were notes upon a musical sky
the night what a song of beauty!
DATE: 2004 May 30
To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler.
DATE: 2004 Jul 13
Rain is a wet apology for the drought.
TITLE: Desert emotions
DATE: 2004 Jul 13
Religion is being locked in and you can't get out; atheism, the other side of the door.
DATE: 2004 Oct 13
I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day.
TITLE: Splat!
DATE: 2004 Jun 3
Autumn leaves
Poets breathless
DATE: 2004 Sep 25
I take a risk
and feel more alive —
Courage screams victory
over the death trap
of the mundane!
TITLE: Bolting of the Rut-Dweller
DATE: 2004 Oct 13
NOTES: revised
Libraries rock!
paper and scissors
Shhh, don't talk!
TITLE: All–nighter non–sense
DATE: 2004 Oct 16
Tea patches heartbreak, sip by sip.
DATE: 2004 Jan 6
In the treasure map of life, X marks love.
TITLE: Search, live, search
DATE: 2004 Feb 22
The really nice breezes blow through my body and into my soul.
DATE: 2004 Feb 22
The field of Western medicine seemingly has become literally nothing but medicine. Are doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-service pharmaceutical vending machines?
TITLE: Prescribed
DATE: 2004 Mar 10
NOTES: revised
Inside our bodies, junk food converts to chaos.
DATE: 2004 Jul 3
Did you really run into a monster on your path, or just a mirror?
TITLE: Mind the monsters
DATE: 2004 Nov 30
Sometimes the things we forget aren't really forgotten, they're just conveniently not remembered.
DATE: 2004 Jul 20
To some, the cigarette is a portable therapist.
DATE: 2004 Feb 8
Look both ways before entering the insanity.
DATE: 2004 Aug 14
All my life I've been trying to fit insane pieces into the puzzle of sanity. Or maybe the other way around.
TITLE: Jiggy
DATE: 2004 Aug 26
My heart forgives you, but it may take a while for my words to catch up.
DATE: 2004 Jan 25
Western medicine is med-sin. Why did we stop believing in nature?
TITLE: Pills
DATE: 2004 Mar 10
NOTES: revised
Be careful not to drown in a mirage.
DATE: 2004 May 3
Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day.
DATE: 2004 Oct 16
Americans pursue happiness as they would a firefly, and when caught trap it in a jar until it suffocates from lack of freedom.
TITLE: Glow of happiness
DATE: 2004 Oct 24
Inhale infinity,
Exhale ink.
TITLE: Breathing poetry
DATE: 2004 May 28
Remedy it or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices.
DATE: 2004 Jun 8
Sleeplessness comes when our thoughts outweigh the night.
DATE: 2004 Jun 26
The universe always wagers — life is risk.
DATE: 2004 Jul 4
My dreams leap —
dancers of the night,
reaching heights
unknown to the day.
DATE: 2004 Dec 17
I feel my body, my mind
weighted down, heavy —
but my blood, my inner fire
my passion, the little
unburdened kid in me
patiently wait to burst free —
Some of us die
never having burst.
TITLE: Years
DATE: 2004 Jun 5
I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.
TITLE: My heart sings the morning
DATE: 2004 Dec 19
Each New Year's Day is like starting a treasure hunt again from scratch, with a slightly altered map.
TITLE: X moves
DATE: 2004 Dec 30
The rose of the old year withers away as the new bud begins to bloom.
TITLE: Withered
DATE: 2004 Jan 1
Hope & faith flower
from cheerful seeds
of the old year to
the sprouting garden
of new year's dawn…
TITLE: Annuals
DATE: 2004 Jan 1
NOTES: revised
No maths can entail love,
lovers belong to infinity.
DATE: 2004 Dec 12
Old books smell of dust and the literary smoke of history, of writer-soul and the ink of eternity.
TITLE: Treasures in dark corners
DATE: 2004 Dec 4
When you tell your own fairy tale, you create your own magic.
TITLE: Once Upon a Now
DATE: 2004 May 1
That which you do behind someone's back, God and your Mother still see.
DATE: 2004 May 12
Angels have no philosophy but love.
° ° °
Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy.
° ° °
Angels will not disintegrate with logic, but they are more likely to fly for those who believe.
° ° °
You'll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one.
° ° °
We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker.
° ° °
If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry.
° ° °
DATE: 2004 May 16
Some people breathe through their mouth, some breathe through their nose — I breathe through the pages of a book.
DATE: 2004 May 29
When I look at my hands and in my heart, I see stress as Lady Macbeth saw blood.
DATE: 2004 May 15
I've shackled myself with the prison bars of ill health.
DATE: 2004 May 19
My physician has become warden of my medically imprisoned body, pharmaceuticals the bars on my cell.
DATE: 2004 May 19
War blood is a scarlet stain of hatred.
DATE: 2004 Oct 30
Life is a search for the key that opens your own door.
DATE: 2004 Aug 1
COMMENT: but Time & Age keep changing the locks
“You know you’re an Arizona native, when…” —Don Dedera, 1993
… you were here before Marcos de Niza, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Eusebio Kino, Tubac, Brigham Young, James Gadsden, Jefferson Davis, Jack Swilling, and Phoenix!
DATE: 2004 Sep 10
NOTES: Dedera put together a really funny book, despite my snark.
Art gallery? Who needs it? Look up at the swirling silver-lined clouds in the magnificent blue sky or at the silently blazing stars at midnight. How could indoor art be any more masterfully created than Earth's museum of nature?
DATE: 2004 Mar 27
NOTES: revised
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Archives Homepage
Don't trade your life for just an empty hourglass.
DATE: 2004 Jan 17
NOTES: revised
We may as well make
friends with Change —
the instant the Moon is full
it's already starting to wane
DATE: 2004 May 4
Too many of us have a skipping spirit but a sit-still body.
TITLE: Move it
DATE: 2004 May 13
A poet can translate birdsong much more faithfully than the biologist ever could.
DATE: 2004 May 22
You can't spell social anxiety without society.
TITLE: SOCial anxIETY
DATE: 2004 Feb 1
Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.
DATE: 2004 Jan 5
Spring stirs under silent snow.
DATE: 2004 Jan 12
Follow the seasons. Follow your heart. Lead by example. Lead with love, alongside simplicity and courage, embracing duty, shunning fear.
DATE: 2004 Feb 7
Weeds —
is there really evil in their hearts
or are they simply feisty seeds —
ambitious verdant darts,
proliferous garden art?
TITLE: Fertilize & philosophize
DATE: 2004 Mar 3
Desserts are the fairy tales of dining — a happily-ever-after to supper.
DATE: 2004 Apr 1
Egotism is overvaluing your little speck of the universe.
DATE: 2004 Feb 25
Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters.
DATE: 2004 Jul 28
Candy is sugar that's all dressed up for the party.
TITLE: Refined
DATE: 2004 Oct 31
...after-storm birds singing the color into rainbows...
DATE: 2004 Mar 4
If you treat the unknown as a minefield and never enter, you may avoid getting blasted but won't ever get to run along with the butterflies.
DATE: 2004 Jul 3
Grief is all emotions wrapped into one.
✻ ✻ ✻
Grief is all emotions wrapped into one exhaustive sadness.
✻ ✻ ✻
Grief is feeling everything humanly possible.
DATE: 2004 Jul 29
The time you think you're missing misses you too.
DATE: 2004 Mar 12
If stars were notes upon a musical sky
the night what a song of beauty!
DATE: 2004 May 30
To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler.
DATE: 2004 Jul 13
Rain is a wet apology for the drought.
TITLE: Desert emotions
DATE: 2004 Jul 13
Religion is being locked in and you can't get out; atheism, the other side of the door.
DATE: 2004 Oct 13
I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day.
TITLE: Splat!
DATE: 2004 Jun 3
Autumn leaves
Poets breathless
DATE: 2004 Sep 25
I take a risk
and feel more alive —
Courage screams victory
over the death trap
of the mundane!
TITLE: Bolting of the Rut-Dweller
DATE: 2004 Oct 13
NOTES: revised
Libraries rock!
paper and scissors
Shhh, don't talk!
TITLE: All–nighter non–sense
DATE: 2004 Oct 16
Tea patches heartbreak, sip by sip.
DATE: 2004 Jan 6
In the treasure map of life, X marks love.
TITLE: Search, live, search
DATE: 2004 Feb 22
The really nice breezes blow through my body and into my soul.
DATE: 2004 Feb 22
The field of Western medicine seemingly has become literally nothing but medicine. Are doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-service pharmaceutical vending machines?
TITLE: Prescribed
DATE: 2004 Mar 10
NOTES: revised
Inside our bodies, junk food converts to chaos.
DATE: 2004 Jul 3
Did you really run into a monster on your path, or just a mirror?
TITLE: Mind the monsters
DATE: 2004 Nov 30
Sometimes the things we forget aren't really forgotten, they're just conveniently not remembered.
DATE: 2004 Jul 20
To some, the cigarette is a portable therapist.
DATE: 2004 Feb 8
Look both ways before entering the insanity.
DATE: 2004 Aug 14
All my life I've been trying to fit insane pieces into the puzzle of sanity. Or maybe the other way around.
TITLE: Jiggy
DATE: 2004 Aug 26
My heart forgives you, but it may take a while for my words to catch up.
DATE: 2004 Jan 25
Western medicine is med-sin. Why did we stop believing in nature?
TITLE: Pills
DATE: 2004 Mar 10
NOTES: revised
Be careful not to drown in a mirage.
DATE: 2004 May 3
Night has become painful for me. It brings to light the regrets of the day.
DATE: 2004 Oct 16
Americans pursue happiness as they would a firefly, and when caught trap it in a jar until it suffocates from lack of freedom.
TITLE: Glow of happiness
DATE: 2004 Oct 24
Inhale infinity,
Exhale ink.
TITLE: Breathing poetry
DATE: 2004 May 28
Remedy it or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices.
DATE: 2004 Jun 8
Sleeplessness comes when our thoughts outweigh the night.
DATE: 2004 Jun 26
The universe always wagers — life is risk.
DATE: 2004 Jul 4
My dreams leap —
dancers of the night,
reaching heights
unknown to the day.
DATE: 2004 Dec 17
I feel my body, my mind
weighted down, heavy —
but my blood, my inner fire
my passion, the little
unburdened kid in me
patiently wait to burst free —
Some of us die
never having burst.
TITLE: Years
DATE: 2004 Jun 5
I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.
TITLE: My heart sings the morning
DATE: 2004 Dec 19
Each New Year's Day is like starting a treasure hunt again from scratch, with a slightly altered map.
TITLE: X moves
DATE: 2004 Dec 30
The rose of the old year withers away as the new bud begins to bloom.
TITLE: Withered
DATE: 2004 Jan 1
Hope & faith flower
from cheerful seeds
of the old year to
the sprouting garden
of new year's dawn…
TITLE: Annuals
DATE: 2004 Jan 1
NOTES: revised
No maths can entail love,
lovers belong to infinity.
DATE: 2004 Dec 12
Old books smell of dust and the literary smoke of history, of writer-soul and the ink of eternity.
TITLE: Treasures in dark corners
DATE: 2004 Dec 4
When you tell your own fairy tale, you create your own magic.
TITLE: Once Upon a Now
DATE: 2004 May 1
That which you do behind someone's back, God and your Mother still see.
DATE: 2004 May 12
Angels have no philosophy but love.
° ° °
Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy.
° ° °
Angels will not disintegrate with logic, but they are more likely to fly for those who believe.
° ° °
You'll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one.
° ° °
We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker.
° ° °
If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry.
° ° °
DATE: 2004 May 16
Some people breathe through their mouth, some breathe through their nose — I breathe through the pages of a book.
DATE: 2004 May 29
When I look at my hands and in my heart, I see stress as Lady Macbeth saw blood.
DATE: 2004 May 15
I've shackled myself with the prison bars of ill health.
DATE: 2004 May 19
My physician has become warden of my medically imprisoned body, pharmaceuticals the bars on my cell.
DATE: 2004 May 19
War blood is a scarlet stain of hatred.
DATE: 2004 Oct 30
Life is a search for the key that opens your own door.
DATE: 2004 Aug 1
COMMENT: but Time & Age keep changing the locks
“You know you’re an Arizona native, when…” —Don Dedera, 1993
… you were here before Marcos de Niza, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Eusebio Kino, Tubac, Brigham Young, James Gadsden, Jefferson Davis, Jack Swilling, and Phoenix!
DATE: 2004 Sep 10
NOTES: Dedera put together a really funny book, despite my snark.
Art gallery? Who needs it? Look up at the swirling silver-lined clouds in the magnificent blue sky or at the silently blazing stars at midnight. How could indoor art be any more masterfully created than Earth's museum of nature?
DATE: 2004 Mar 27
NOTES: revised