pick out your fears
worries, anger, and hate
from the bag of stones you carry
and love, find yourself lifted by
the wings of featherweight faith
—Terri Guillemets
pick out your fears
worries, anger, and hate
from the bag of stones you carry
and love, find yourself lifted by
the wings of featherweight faith
—Terri Guillemets
Now that I’m over the hill
I can see it’s just made of
skeletons of dead monsters
that were never really there.
But that past is no less high
and no less there, and I am
no less on the other side of it.
—Terri Guillemets
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
Transform FEAR into —
curiosity, love, kindness, humor, hope, joy, knowledge, focus, laughter, awareness, wonder, willpower, wings, experience, faith, fervor, challenge, gratitude, encouragement, enlightenment, goodwill, action, learning, beginnings, opportunity, aim, determination, adventure, character, smiles, hard work, independence,
—Terri Guillemets
Night is filled with our loudest fears and a silent courage.
—Terri Guillemets
O! how many ghosts in a wound of war.
—Terri Guillemets
Try not to worry, as it’s sticky and hard to scrub off.
—Terri Guillemets
Replace fear with gratitude, and your whole world changes.
—Terri Guillemets
Let courage break through the cracks in your fear.
—Terri Guillemets
Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.
—Terri Guillemets
Breathe in so much gratitude that there’s no room for fear.
—Terri Guillemets
Fear is imagination falling off a cliff.
—Terri Guillemets
Fear —
not running-from-bear
but running-from-life
Courage —
not getting-up-the-nerve
but getting-up-every-day
—Terri Guillemets