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Wounded

2025 April 1st2016 May 10th

“No mourning can heal the wound of neverness.”

—Dr. Idel Dreimer, lumpenbangenpiano.com

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, collected, dr. idel dreimer, grief, loss, quoted, quotes

Fusion

2025 March 16th2003 June 11th

Sometimes we can’t let go of the pain because we think it’s the only thing holding us together.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, emotions, favorites, letting go, melancholy, pain, popular, quotes, revised, terri guillemets

Grounded

2026 January 27th2021 September 18th

Seek not the flattery of self-esteem but the hard-won dignity of self-respect.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Writer's Journal Tags -all posts-, quotes, self, terri guillemets

In progress

2025 March 16th1997 March 8th

Be a student of life and a lifelong student.

Terri Guillemets

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

O! Nature

2025 March 16th2019 May 6th

Nature —
exquisite beauty and elegance
antique yet fresh

Terri Guillemets

blackout poetry created from “Pericles,” Plutarch’s Lives, Dryden’s 1859 Clough translation

Categories Found Poetry Tags -all posts-, altered prose, blackout poetry, found poetry, nature, perspective, poems, remix lit, terri guillemets

Release

2025 March 16th2023 November 24th

the wisdom of  age
takes root to blossom
in crevices of the brain
emptied by letting go

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, brain, emotions, favorites, fifties, letting go, midlife, mind, perspective, poems, popular, self, terri guillemets, wisdom

Entranced

2025 March 16th2023 August 1st

autumn leaves rustle
the tension out of me
on pleasant breezy days
sunlit gentle tree, i am
a ragdoll under your sway

Terri Guillemets

Categories Sunshine Journal Tags -all posts-, autumn, body, emotions, leaves, nature, outdoors, poems, seasons, stress, sun, terri guillemets, trees, wind & breeze

Fractal

2025 March 16th2023 June 23rd

shards of memory
jagged-edged
broken emotions —

wholeness
is the fossil
of childhood —

growing up
fractures
many things —

Terri Guillemets

Categories Lunch Break Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, memories, memory, poems, self, terri guillemets

So simple

2025 March 16th2022 August 26th

Sometimes my husband says really smart things. Today during a conversation on our lunch breaks, it was this—

Me:  “How can I let go of something like that?”

Him:  “Shift + Delete”

Terri

Categories Conversations Tags -all posts-, favorites, letting go, quotes, technology

Ossifight

2025 March 16th2021 March 3rd

Somehow, I got old
before really learning to be young
the old in my bones is calcified
the young in my soul is still growing

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, forties, inner child, midlife, poems, terri guillemets

End of life

2025 March 16th2021 February 8th

no matter which end-of-life decisions were made,
there are always regrets, there is always that guilt —
live parts of me holding onto memories of a dying you
dead parts of me holding onto living memories of you

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, decisions, emotions, grief, guilt, loss, melancholy, memories, poems, regret, terri guillemets

Middle ground

2025 March 16th2017 April 7th

Failure is not frailty.
Success never guarantees.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, failure, perspective, poems, quotes, success, terri guillemets

Angles

2025 March 17th2011 December 16th

The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. And we shine differently in the seasons of our lives.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, fifties, forties, midlife, quotes, revised, seasons, sun, terri guillemets, year
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