her smiling girl-heart danced
behind the grey, grey hair
—Terri Guillemets
scrambled blackout poetry created from Enid Bagnold, National Velvet, 1935,
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Saving y’all some time
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
Two A.M. drops
dancing in the rain
at nature’s cloudy party
—Terri Guillemets
Afterthoughts during
Wrinkles don’t hurt as much when one remembers the playground in one’s heart.
—Terri Guillemets
Yippee ki yo Friday!
Friday is the spring fever of the week!
—Terri Guillemets
Old soil, new green
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
—Terri Guillemets
P.S. Thank you to The Reader’s Digest Association for publishing this quotation in Quotable Quotes: All New Wit & Wisdom from the Greatest Minds of Our Time and to Richard Sollazzo, M.D. for quoting it in Balance Your Health: Combining Conventional and Natural Medicine.
Wheee!
Sliding down the banister of life is so much more fun than ambling down the steps.
—Terri Guillemets