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terri guillemets

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Spring out & in

2025 September 5th2014 March 27th

Spring:  the music of open windows.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, music, nature, popular, quotes, seasons, sounds, spring, terri guillemets, weather, windows

Winter art

2025 March 16th2013 January 7th

icicles are daggers of beauty
thrown by winter’s sunshine breath

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, nature, poems, quotes, seasons, sun, terri guillemets, weather, winter

Self-conviction

2025 March 22nd2024 April 28th

when you live too hard
forty is a warning
fifty, penalty

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

Soiled

2025 March 17th2003 April 22nd

If organic is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, food, fruit, health, popular, quotes, society, terri guillemets, veggies & greens, words

How to shine

2025 March 16th2019 May 27th

it’s not that the people
with nice shiny attitudes
haven’t been banged up —
but they buff out their
dings and scratches with
gratitude and positivity
perspective and grace
resilience and courage
with purpose and faith

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Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, gratitude, letting go, metaphor, perspective, poems, popular, self, spirit, success, terri guillemets, wellness, work hard

Fragile

2025 April 28th2016 January 16th

Grief is looking up
to see Never
at your window —
rapping on the pane
of your heart —

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, favorites, grief, heart, loss, pain, poems, terri guillemets, wordplay

Depths

2025 March 16th1998 July 26th

Grief is a haunted lake that’s all too easy to drown in.

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

Run for it!

2025 March 16th1997 November 8th

Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, dreams, favorites, passion, popular, quotes, self, spirit, success, terri guillemets, work hard

Sound of winter leaves at night

2025 March 16th2014 December 14th

Age is a foreign land I can’t get used to. I want to go back home.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, emotions, favorites, fifties, forties, midlife, popular, quotes, self, terri guillemets

Proof of youth

2025 March 16th1996 May 3rd

Be thou not ashamed of lust —
desire was born in primal dust
it mingled with the seas of life
to make the mud we know as love

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Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, body, favorites, ha ha, poems, popular, sexy, terri guillemets

Waking to a newer than new day

2025 September 5th2007 November 17th

Each morning begins with the triumph and celebration of waking to a new day and the blessing of being able to get out of bed. What better way to start the day than with a success like that?

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, blessings, gratitude, health, morning, popular, quotes, success, terri guillemets, wellness

Dear Yesterday

2025 April 1st2024 December 12th

Dear Yesterday,

You begged to talk with me
but I am too busy with Today —
maybe we can catch up later —
if Tomorrow doesn’t treat me well
I will call to cry on your shoulder.

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, crying, future, live now, memories, past, poems, terri guillemets, time

Rainbow’ish

2025 March 16th2011 July 17th

Red is passion-lit, pink is lipsensual, orange is flowerageous, yellow is suntastic, green is lifebursting, blue is skyful, purple is berrydancing, gray is cloudrainy.

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Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, blue, colors, gray, green, orange, pink, purple, quotes, red, terri guillemets, yellow
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