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Zzzzzhakespeare

2025 March 16th2023 January 13th

reading in my cozy bed, ridiculously late
words begin to slur and rhymes, to blear
my eyelids fight me — like a heavyweight
goodnight, sweet sleepy zzzzzhakespeare

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, books, ha ha, literature, night, poems, reading, silly, sleep, terri guillemets, william shakespeare, wordplay

Stimulant

2025 March 16th2006 August 25th

Reading in bed is a gateway drug to writing in bed.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, books, night, quotes, reading, terri guillemets, writing

Classics declassified

2025 March 16th2009 December 4th

Grass of Walt
[D!@%] of Moby
Boz gets Lit
Bard’s the [$h¡t]

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, authors, books, charles dickens, ha ha, herman melville, literature, people, poems, poetry: about, reading, revised, silly, terri guillemets, walt whitman, william shakespeare, wordplay, writing

Long ago now

2025 March 16th2022 February 12th

I am searching for my feelings
through shelves of dusty books
can’t help but feel I’ve left them
in some forgotten ancient nooks
as if an author long before me
captured my emotions in his day
and saved them in fine poetry
for future me to find someway

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, books, emotions, favorites, past, poems, poetry: about, reading, terri guillemets, writing

Antennae

2025 March 16th1994 June 11th

Read instead of watch TV?
Now there’s a novel idea!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, books, poems, quotes, reading, technology, terri guillemets, wordplay

Biblioinsomnia

2025 March 16th2000 October 9th

Up late with books, reading in bed—
Up early with coffee, extra lead.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, books, coffee, insomnia, morning, night, poems, reading, sleep, terri guillemets

Saving books

2025 April 28th2017 July 27th

I’ve been saving books for all these years, and they’ve been saving me for my entire life.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, authors, books, libraries, literature, quotes, reading, terri guillemets

Storied

2025 April 29th2016 August 18th

Books talk to you for an afternoon. Literature speaks for generations.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, books, literature, quotes, reading, terri guillemets

Fees fines fo fun

2025 April 28th2017 April 7th

If you haven’t owed a library fine at least once in your life, you’re not a real reader.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, books, libraries, money, quotes, reading, terri guillemets

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