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Terri Guillemets
Archives — 1997




This is the archive of my publicly published writing from 1997 — the good, the bad, the active and the retired.  Some entries were originally untitled with a title added later, and some were first published under other pen names.  —tg, 2023

SEE  ALSO 2024,  2023,  2022,  2021,  2020,  2019,  2018,  2017,  2016,  2015,  2014,  2013,  2012,  2011,  2010,  2009,  2008,  2007,  2006,  2005,  2004,  2003,  2002,  2001,  2000,  1999,  1998,  YOU  ARE  HERE,  1996,  1995,  1994,  1993,  1992,  1991,  1990,  1980s,  ARCHIVES  HOMEPAGE







New beginnings happen every day.


      SOURCE:  journal
      DATE:  1997 Jan 1







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


      TITLE:  Run for it!
      DATE:  1997 Nov 8







Writing poetry
is letting go —
once the words leave your pen
they're out of your soul —
and the therapy has begun.


      DATE:  1997 Jan 4
      NOTES:  revised







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


      TITLE:  Fortunate misfortunes
      DATE:  1997 Jul 11
      NOTES:  revised







Belief stains darker, imprints deeper than truth.


      DATE:  1997 Nov 6







Humans have an odd ecology.


      DATE:  1997 Nov 18







Religion is faith in anything other than ourselves.


      TITLE:  Illusions
      SOURCE:  college essay
      DATE:  1997 Feb 17







Walking:  the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise.


      DATE:  1997 Feb 24







Be a student of life and a lifelong student.


      TITLE:  In Progress
      DATE:  1997 Mar 8







Don't edit the demons — let them scream.


      SOURCE:  journal
      DATE:  1997 Nov 14







Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.


      DATE:  1997 Aug 22







We are creatures trapped in culture.


      DATE:  1997 Dec 9







My heart is glass, daily shattered.


      SOURCE:  journal
      DATE:  1997 Jan 3
      HASHTAG:  HSP







Can plants be happy? If they get what they need, they thrive — that's what I know.


      TITLE:  Lessons from Nature to the Human Heart
      DATE:  1997 Mar 30
      NOTES:  revised







I'm more a philosophical connoisseur of tea than an actual drinker of the stuff.


      DATE:  1997 Apr 19
      AGE:  twenty-three
      180°:  six years later







...the fairy dust of poetry and glittery hope of dreams...


      TITLE:  Fuel
      DATE:  1997 Jul 6







Time. Tick. Time. Tock. Time.

tempus fugit, breve est
ruit hora, carpe diem
lente hora, celeriter anni


      TITLE:  Year-hand
      SOURCE:  journal poem
      DATE:  1997 Oct 26







Walking gets the body moving, the blood moving, the mind moving. And movement is life.


      DATE:  1997 Nov 6
      NOTES:  revised







Poetry is an ethereal garden crying rhyming tears of roses.


      TITLE:  Fairie aerial
      DATE:  1997 Nov 8
      NOTES:  revised







Poetry is a garden haunted by the sound of whispering roses.


      TITLE:  Rock paper ink
      DATE:  1997 Nov 8
      NOTES:  revised







To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear.


      DATE:  1997 Feb 24







God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases.


      DATE:  1997 Sep 30
      NOTES:  My little variation of a quotation by Jacques Deval: "God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages."







Trees —
Long-standing hearts of nature
Absorbers of human angst


      DATE:  1997 Apr 5
      NOTES:  revised







The universe will do the writing for you, if you just listen close enough.


      DATE:  1997 Nov 15
      NOTES:  It's poetic grammar, Mom.







Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you.


      DATE:  1997 Aug 30







Labels? Okay, fine. Bisensual. Heteroflexible. Life-curious. That about covers it.


      DATE:  1997 Dec 7
      NOTES:  revised







If trouble hearing Angels song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart.


      DATE:  1997 Nov 28







If you are walking to seek, ye shall find.


      DATE:  1997 Feb 24







YEARLY  ARCHIVES 2024,  2023,  2022,  2021,  2020,  2019,  2018,  2017,  2016,  2015,  2014,  2013,  2012,  2011,  2010,  2009,  2008,  2007,  2006,  2005,  2004,  2003,  2002,  2001,  2000,  1999,  1998,  YOU  ARE  HERE,  1996,  1995,  1994,  1993,  1992,  1991,  1990,  1980s,  ARCHIVES  HOMEPAGE





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Archives — 1997






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