Tag Archives: Being

ME-MAKER, ME-MAKER, MAKE ME A ME!

Posted on April 18, 2018 by elainedanforth

Me-maker me-maker make me a me. . . I seem already here, but I don’t grow as simply as a tree. Some say I must act; some say, learn to just be. . . Is there some me that I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Action, Being, Essence, Food for thought, Growth, Life, Self, Thought | Leave a comment

JUST BE THERE

Posted on November 19, 2016 by elainedanforth

Just be there. . . This stickly moment seems to you, as you are in it, so mucked up that it’s hard as it can get, even if the muck is really very far from infinite. . . But, if … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Being, Breathe, Choice, Destiny, Dream, Life, Life form, Love, Manifest, Memory, Mind Body, Mindfulness, Moment, Presence, Seeing, Soul, Voice, Wonder | Leave a comment

THE DIFFERENCE YOU MAKE

Posted on August 17, 2016 by elainedanforth

Every single thing you do does– really– make a difference. Paths followed, be they false or true, blooms picked, of red or yellow, white or blue– Each brings a different kind of tingling, or other thing you never felt or … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Being, Going the distance, Human, Life, Light, Making a difference, Path, Perspective, Seeing, Skies, Step bystep, Truth | Leave a comment

ACCEPTING CHARGE

Posted on March 6, 2016 by elainedanforth

Accepting charge. . . being in charge– as long as it and you’ve somewhere to go, that you with fullest love can flow, is your best, BEST way to go– by and large.

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Acceptance, Accepting charge, Approach, Being, Being in charge, Charge, Life, Love, Path, Way to go | Leave a comment

THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE

Posted on February 12, 2016 by elainedanforth

From a painful hole, an empty, sad and lonely place, can enter vision’s sight and soul, and that sorry, said same hole can be the gateway for admission of a heretofore often knocking at the door, but thwarted, blocked from … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prayer, Quick reads, Uncategorized | Tagged Acceptance, Admission, Being, Blocked, Emptiness, Entry, Feeling, Grace, Hole, Pain, Sadness, Seeing, Soul, The eye of a needle, Vision | Leave a comment

HOW TO BEGIN, WHEN ALL’S BEEN SAID AND DONE

Posted on February 6, 2016 by elainedanforth

When all is said and done, it has all, in greatest likelihood, been said or done. . . so then, it just may be the way to be original is just to be. . . and then you’ll find just … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Being, Goodness, Light, One of a kind, Origin, Original, Seeing, Senses, When all's been said or done | Leave a comment

DID NO ONE EVER ASK A BUTTERFLY?

Posted on October 15, 2015 by elainedanforth

Did no one ever ask a butterfly, and talk with with them quite long enough to have them speak just how it felt to die? Or how hard the labor, as a caterpillar, was the task to spin a coat … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Prayer | Tagged Being, Butterfly, Chrysalis, Cocoon, Fear, Feeling, Flowers, Food, Hearts, Metamorphosis, Reaching out, Sight, Transformation, Wonder | Leave a comment

DROPPING THE NEED FOR EXCUSES

Posted on August 29, 2015 by elainedanforth

Once you drop the need to make excuse for everything you are and every thing you ever did or were, and then you cut you loose from all of your life’s chains and pains so slow assumed or suddenly bequeathed … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Being, Bequeath, Chains, Doing, Dream, Excuses, Heirlooms, Life, Need, Pain, Plant, Right Livelihood, Role, Seed, Star, Victim role, Vision, Work | Leave a comment

THE MOMENT OF PORTENT

Posted on August 14, 2015 by elainedanforth

when every fiber of your being is screaming that it wants you to do one thing– except for all the fibers that are screaming, maybe even louder, for you to do another. . . this is no civil war– for … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Ambivalence, Being, Clarity, Conflict, Heart, Moment, Portent, War | Leave a comment

BEING ALONE, BEING WITH OTHERS

Posted on July 1, 2015 by elainedanforth

Being alone is to be frightened and cold and hungry and sad. . . Being with others: lost in the tightening fold, feeling their angry– I’m heard not one tad. . . OR Alone +++++is relaxed and enlightened, +++++with room … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetic Musing (Longer Poems) | Tagged Alone, Being, Feelings, In company, Thought, With others | Leave a comment