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Lost & fined

2025 April 28th2017 April 7th

Library fines are my favorite charitable donation.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, books, libraries, money, quotes, terri guillemets

Fees fines fo fun

2025 April 28th2017 April 7th

If you haven’t owed a library fine at least once in your life, you’re not a real reader.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, books, libraries, money, quotes, reading, terri guillemets

Non-verbal

2025 November 22nd2010 April 8th

I’ve adjectived up my life so much I forgot how to be simple and plain and quiet.

Be. Just be.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, action, note to self, quotes, self, simplicity, terri guillemets, words

Paying the price

2025 April 28th2017 July 29th

Wisdom is expensive — paid in life and years.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, quotes, terri guillemets, wisdom

Demurrer

2025 October 6th1999 February 9th

A smile is the best defense against this offensive world.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, perseverance, quotes, smiles, society, terri guillemets

Man forbid

2025 April 28th2017 April 6th

What’s in the raging flame
of banned books burning?
Knowledge, truth, learning;
courage, freedom, yearning.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, books, censorship, poems, terri guillemets

Caution

2025 July 12th2004 July 28th

Carelessness doesn’t bounce; it shatters.

Terri Guillemets

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

Duet

2025 July 11th2006 March 11th

Let your fear dance with courage — and let courage lead.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, courage, dancing, fear, inspirational, motivational, quotes, terri guillemets

Agone

2025 April 29th2016 May 1st

Love stabs at loss with pangs of past happiness.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, grief, loss, memories, past, quotes, terri guillemets

Imperceptible

2025 September 17th2012 March 9th

Under the giving snow blossoms a daring spring.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, flowers, nature, quotes, seasons, snow, spring, terri guillemets, winter

Lost & unfound

2025 April 28th2017 July 22nd

opportune words
fall into my brain
at inopportune times
quickly lost to real life —
not to be found again, i fear
’til some inkless paperless afterlife

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, memory, poems, terri guillemets, writing

Fallen youth

2025 May 11th2014 January 11th

my body’s lifelong dance with gravity
has turned to wrestling match

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, body, fifties, forties, ha ha, midlife, poems, quotes, terri guillemets, womanhood

Winter rest

2025 May 3rd2016 December 19th

The earth tucked herself in for the year with winter’s frosty white blanket of snow.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, earth, quotes, revised, seasons, snow, terri guillemets, winter
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