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The path

2025 March 16th2005 January 11th

Follow your passion, and success will follow you.

Terri Guillemets

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

Illumination

2025 March 16th1994 August 18th

As far as the Moon is concerned, he is always full.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, moon, night sky, perspective, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

The chaos-harmony of life

2025 April 1st2002 December 12th

I swing like a kid
and fall like an adult;
cry tears of gratitude
and pray in smiles;
hug and love, and later
hide under the covers—
wildly and humbly living
from dawn to the stars,
and ever back again

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, crying, emotions, favorites, gratitude, hugs, infj, inner child, life, love, poems, popular, prayer, self, stars, terri guillemets

History & destiny

2025 March 16th2005 February 28th

The past can’t see you, but the future is listening.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Scrap Papers Tags -all posts-, favorites, future, past, perspective, philosophical, popular, quotes, self, terri guillemets, time

Insomnia ticking

2025 March 16th2019 April 6th

three o’clock —
anxiety, regret
in the depths of worry
swept away in the
whirlwind of nothing —
a horrible nothing

Terri Guillemets

blackout poetry created from Octave Mirbeau, The Diary of a Chambermaid, 1891–1900

Categories Found Poetry Tags -all posts-, altered prose, blackout poetry, emotions, favorites, fear, found poetry, insomnia, mind, night, night 3am, poems, remix lit, sleep, terri guillemets

Summer wonder

2025 March 16th2007 August 4th

late June, monsoon — kaboom!
patter, splatter, fat drops gather
splats, taps, windowpane raps
wind whips, swish, whish —
summer’s rumbling thunder
flash, crash, lightning dash
plash, splash, sky unlashed!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, arizona, favorites, june, lightning, monsoon, nature, poems, popular, rain, seasons, senses, sky, sounds, storms, summer, terri guillemets, thunderstorms, weather

Playground

2025 March 16th2016 March 13th

We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never leave the playground of our hearts.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, favorites, inner child, memories, play, popular, quotes, terri guillemets, youth

Always true

2025 March 16th2008 December 29th

I love to kiss your lying lips —
when we love our honesty slips
but soul to soul is always true —
a love lie is truth in another hue

Terri Guillemets

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

Emotion sickness

2025 March 16th2007 June 11th

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, body, emotions, favorites, health, medical, mind, quotes, terri guillemets

Ravish

2025 April 1st2023 August 20th

it is raining!
no, not water
from clouds
but dead leaves
from july trees

scorched by
a brutal heat
too sunburnt
to evergreen
falling, fallen
brittle brown
leafy teardrops
raining down
the dry warm
forlorn face of
mother earth

Terri Guillemets

Categories Lunch Break Journal Tags -all posts-, arizona, brown, climate change, crying, favorites, heat wave, july, leaves, nature, phoenix, poems, popular, seasons, summer, terri guillemets, trees, weather

Aging inside & out

2025 March 16th2014 May 4th

The years pile up and hide under a new exterior.

Terri Guillemets

blackout poetry created from Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

Categories Found Poetry Tags -all posts-, age & aging, altered prose, blackout poetry, favorites, fifties, forties, found poetry, midlife, nathaniel hawthorne, perimenopause, quotes, remix lit, terri guillemets

Passed down

2025 March 16th1996 August 4th

To journal is a present of the past to your future self.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, journaling, memories, past, quotes, self, terri guillemets, wordplay, writing

Sparks & sizzle

2025 March 16th1994 April 15th

Two people who have chemistry evolve quickly to biology.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, popular, quotes, relationships, science, sexy, terri guillemets
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