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Imaginary disease

2025 April 15th1993 February 6th

How can there possibly be
      Any such of a thing
As an overactive imagination?
      The actual real disease
That most are suffering from
      Is underactive imagination!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, imagination & creativity, poems, terri guillemets

¡Peligro!

2025 March 17th1994 September 10th

Evolution:  one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, ha ha, humans, quotes, science, snarky, terri guillemets

49–17/20

2025 September 17th2023 September 2nd

the walls of my prison crumble
as the walls of my castle appear

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, change, metaphor, midlife, mind-body, perimenopause, poems, terri guillemets, transformation

Sick day

2025 April 17th1994 December 24th

Some days we can only hope
that Death has called in sick.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, poems, quotes, terri guillemets

Two steps forward, one stumble backward

2025 March 16th1994 February 28th

There are two sides to every story. Even my own story. Probably every story I’ve ever told myself.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, perspective, quotes, self, terri guillemets

Seriocomic

2025 April 26th2019 December 7th

I like people who don’t take life too seriously but who do take very seriously the gratitude for being alive.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, gratitude, life, perspective, quotes, terri guillemets

Play-grounding

2025 March 19th2024 January 2nd

i can muster up
some pretty good
grace & elegance
if need be — but
when it comes to
chocolate, crayons
or playful animals
i always become a
bumbling giggling
messy little girl —

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, animals, chocolate, crayons & coloring, inner child, poems, terri guillemets

Cutthroat

2025 July 3rd2023 September 21st

squeeze tight — dollars drip,
lay off loyalty — tears drop,
squeeze tighter — cents bleed

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, business, enshittification, money, poems, revised, senryu, society, terri guillemets

U.$.A.

2025 July 3rd2023 August 10th

America —
toxic profit
center of
the world

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, business, enshittification, environment, money, poems, society, terri guillemets, wordplay

Beyond the horizon

2025 March 16th1989 May 12th

I still believe in some faraway place where it’s all okay.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, quotes, terri guillemets

Forever…

2025 March 24th2024 January 20th

as inevitable as
aging and taxes —
death is no longer
the surety it was

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, death, medical, poems, technology, terri guillemets

Falling to pieces

2025 March 16th1993 March 21st

I’m a dandelion puff in a harsh wind.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, hsp, infj, quotes, terri guillemets

Never & forever

2026 April 30th2024 July 4th

Life —
when the things you want
to stay the same forever
do nothing but change —
and the things you’re ready
to be done with forever
keep relentlessly hanging on.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, change, letting go, life, poems, terri guillemets
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