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terri guillemets

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Demolition

2025 October 1st2008 January 3rd

I’m under construction — please excuse the poetry.

Terri Guillemets

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

Only bruises

2025 March 17th2015 October 19th

Poetry allows
my soul to age gracefully
my mind to land softly
amongst the new gray hairs —
without it I’d have thunked
into my forties with
tail bone, funny bone
and spirit broken

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, forties, literature, midlife, poems, poetry: about, revised, terri guillemets, writing

Battles

2025 March 16th2009 October 18th

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

Terri Guillemets

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.

Terri Guillemets

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

Voyages

2025 March 16th1993 December 3rd

A journal is a journey — our own personal passages of self.

Terri Guillemets

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

Missed

2025 March 16th2010 September 5th

Over time, the hurt doesn’t hurt. Only regret does.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Dream Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, emotions, past, quotes, self, terri guillemets, time

Torch

2026 April 11th2026 March 22nd

Grief is a fire
set to the heart —
burning some things away
keeping others aflame

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, grief, heart, loss, melancholy, memories, poems, terri guillemets

Don’t-do-it list

2025 March 19th2023 September 25th

currently i am about halfway through
doing the list of things i swore before
i would  never  ever  do when i got old

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, fifties, forties, ha ha, midlife, poems, terri guillemets

Marrow

2025 March 16th2006 January 3rd

Poetry is the dancing skeleton of bare-bones prose.

Terri Guillemets

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

Haunted

2025 March 16th2018 August 9th

There are more ghosts in an unwell body than in an entire haunted mansion.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, ghosts & supernatural, health, quotes, terri guillemets

Victorious

2025 March 16th2012 January 14th

This smile isn’t a lack of pain. It’s a victory gesture of not letting pain defeat me.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, emotions, pain, quotes, smiles, terri guillemets

Heights

2025 March 16th2008 February 28th

If you’ve climbed the jutting trees to your lofty goal, you’ve far outdone the unscathed ladder climbers.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, quotes, terri guillemets, work hard

Bumpy fright

2025 March 16th2006 March 26th

A nightmare is only a dream that hits turbulence.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, dreams, emotions, night, quotes, sleep, terri guillemets
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