Her smiling girl-heart danced
behind the grey, grey hair.
—Terri Guillemets
scrambled blackout poetry created from Enid Bagnold, National Velvet, 1935,
Her smiling girl-heart danced
behind the grey, grey hair.
—Terri Guillemets
scrambled blackout poetry created from Enid Bagnold, National Velvet, 1935,
After reading countless health books over the past couple of decades, I can tell you it pretty much all boils down to this: Eat plenty of veggies, work, play, rest, and don’t worry.
—Terri Guillemets
Dancing in the rain
At nature’s cloudy party
—Terri Guillemets
Keep playing, young one —
keep playing
Keep playing, mother —
keep playing
Keep playing, grandmother —
keep playing
Keep playing, white-haired youth-at-heart —
skip off into death
with a giggling heart.
—Terri Guillemets
The wrinkles don’t hurt as much when one remembers the playground in one’s heart.
—Terri Guillemets
Sometimes healing is about not journaling — about living and forgetting that you even have a journal!
—Terri Guillemets
Friday is the spring fever of the week!
—Terri Guillemets
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
—Terri Guillemets
Sliding down the banister of life is so much more fun than ambling down the steps.
—Terri Guillemets