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Minds awash

2025 March 16th1997 November 6th

Belief stains darker, imprints deeper than truth.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Schoolwork Tags -all posts-, humans, mind, popular, quotes, society, terri guillemets, truth

Orkestrel

2025 March 16th1993 November 16th

Birdsong:  a branch of music.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, birds, favorites, ha ha, music, nature, outdoors, popular, quotes, sounds, terri guillemets, wordplay

Pain & struggle

2025 March 16th1999 January 12th

We can’t always see the scatters and tatters of a broken heart. Kindness is due to all fellow beings — we never know the invisible hurts they’re enduring.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, favorites, kindness, pain, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Can’t freakin’ sleep

2025 March 16th2016 March 3rd

insomnia is invisible
but hard as concrete

Terri Guillemets

blackout poetry created from Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996

Categories Found Poetry Tags -all posts-, altered prose, blackout poetry, favorites, found poetry, insomnia, poems, popular, remix lit, sleep, terri guillemets

Connections

2025 March 16th2012 April 6th

Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, death, favorites, grief, heart, loss, love, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Fortunate misfortunes

2025 March 16th1997 July 11th

Death bumps into life many times as just a passerby — says excuse me then goes on his way.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, death, favorites, life, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

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

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?

Terri Guillemets

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

Terri Guillemets

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

Run for it!

2025 March 16th1997 November 8th

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

Terri Guillemets

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.

Terri Guillemets

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

Terri Guillemets

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?

Terri Guillemets

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