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Creativity Journal

Emily’s dash

2025 March 16th2005 August 12th

Say what! You mean
That’s not why they call it an
Em dash? — those Dickinson
Hyphens between?

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, grammar, ha ha, poems, poetry: about, silly, terri guillemets, wordplay, writing

Immeasurable

2025 March 16th2006 June 28th

Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, grief, loss, love, math & numbers, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Listen to the colors

2025 March 16th2007 January 7th

Purple is the soul-lifter
Red, the flame of passion
Yellow, the light of warmth
Green, vibrant stem of life
Pink, a whisper of beauty
Orange beckons, take a chance
Blue is the sea tide in us all

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, blue, colors, green, orange, pink, poems, purple, red, terri guillemets, yellow

Inkdreaming

2025 March 16th1994 January 22nd

the smell of ink is
intoxicating to me —
others may have wine
but I have poetry

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, alcohol, favorites, ink, poems, poetry: about, popular, senses, terri guillemets, wine, writing

Demolition

2025 October 1st2008 January 3rd

I’m under construction — please excuse the poetry.

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, change, emotions, poetry: about, poets, quotes, self, self-care, terri guillemets, therapy, writing

Battles

2025 March 16th2009 October 18th

Life is a battlefield of broken dreams and pieced-together victories.

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, life, quotes, terri guillemets

Work hard & shine!

2025 March 16th2009 January 4th

Sometimes the universe tosses out handfuls of glittering opportunity. If it falls upon you, dance! Then get right to work.

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, dancing, popular, quotes, revised, terri guillemets, work hard

Marrow

2025 March 16th2006 January 3rd

Poetry is the dancing skeleton of bare-bones prose.

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, dancing, poetry: about, quotes, terri guillemets, writing

43.47943

2025 March 16th2017 April 19th

Specks of universe in my soul,
flurries of God in my head.
Heart ticks away, doing its job—
whispering poetry all the while.
Enlightenment flickers subtly
from old gray half-burnt wicks.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, enlightenment, poems, self, terri guillemets

Time & dates

2025 March 16th2009 April 24th

A lover counts time in kisses, not years.

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, kisses, love, quotes, terri guillemets, time

Endings & beginnings

2025 November 22nd2010 August 18th

The last faded autumn leaflet hangs from a frozen branch, just a short fall from the tree to winter.

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, autumn, leaves, nature, quotes, seasons, terri guillemets, trees, weather, winter, wordplay

Breakthrough

2025 March 16th2006 March 11th

Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, courage, fear, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Your fill

2025 March 19th2006 June 17th

There  are  lots  of  opport✻nities  o✻t  there.  And  yo✻  know  what’s  missing.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, note to self, quotes, terri guillemets, work hard
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