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terri guillemets

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Measureless

2025 April 19th1998 April 16th

Facts and figures are never the whole story.

Terri Guillemets

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Shadows long after light is gone

2025 April 23rd2020 December 27th

end of life decisions
seep grieving guilt
into every crack
of broken hearts—
life is the always
ultimate sacredness
and to play god
feels sacrilegious—
even the right decision
reverberates as wrong

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, death, decisions, guilt, poems, terri guillemets

Out of the blue

2025 April 17th1994 March 5th

Birds are beautiful and amazing creatures, until you walk underneath one who had a big lunch.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, birds, ha ha, quotes, terri guillemets

Between

2026 February 13th2026 February 13th

overcast spring day
musing under olive tree
on top of the world

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Categories Haiku Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, haiku, happiness, poems, senryu, spring, terri guillemets, trees, weather, wordplay

Alone

2025 April 15th1992 February 26th

For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, hsp, infj, quotes, social anxiety, solitude, terri guillemets

I got tested

2025 April 14th1992 February 28th

Yep, I’m an INFJ — an antisocial butterfly and the most hugging, loving people-hater you’ll ever meet.

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Metre

2025 April 28th2016 February 11th

do not watch too closely
cogs in the wheel of time —
observe their passing as
the rhythm of a poem —
not clicks of the abacus

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, poems, terri guillemets, time

Discomforts

2025 April 16th1997 December 9th

We are creatures trapped in culture.

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Man vs Nature

2025 April 15th1993 June 20th

Human nature is just about the only nature some people experience.

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Consenses

2025 April 14th1991 September 18th

All we experience is reality filtered with self.

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Categories Schoolwork Tags -all posts-, perspective, quotes, reality, revised, self, terri guillemets

Why does it hurt?

2025 June 9th1992 July 19th

My heart aches love for you.

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Becoming

2025 April 17th1994 December 31st

Decorate yourself from the inside out.

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

Midwinter’s day

2025 September 18th2012 December 21st

Halfway in — this loveliness called Winter, so soon — and halfway out, already.

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, december, quotes, seasons, solstice winter, terri guillemets, winter
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