Tag Archives: Brain

WHAT WERE THOSE WORDS UNKIND AND TRITE?

Posted on March 17, 2018 by elainedanforth

What were those words, unkind, and trite? The ones that picked and pricked to bring your every single flaw to light. The ones that hurt but somehow dug a deep deep hole and put that nonsense into you. . . … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Brain, Disappointment, Flaws, Hurt, Life, Song, Support, Trite, Unfamiliar territory, Unkind, Walking, Words | Leave a comment

JOY IN DEEP DECEMBER

Posted on December 12, 2016 by elainedanforth

Ten days before solstice. . . There’s no way I ever could regain my stride in which I’d take more pleasure (mixed with a bit of pride) than, at my own chosen pace of leisure, to pedal up a hill … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Winter | Tagged Bike ride, Brain, Dark, December, Deep, Eyes, Heart, Lungs, Pleasure, Pride, Seeing, Winter Solstice | Leave a comment

I WILL OR WILL NOT– LAST OR FIRST?

Posted on September 1, 2016 by elainedanforth

Famous last words: “I will not (blank).” (The blank you fill). Famous beginnings (of paths bound for auspicious winnings): “I will! I will!” (Whatever it is, the blank you fill). Now and ever you’ll have both you and the big … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Affirmation, Brain, Commitment, Denial, Heart, Intention, Light, Love, Mind Body, Refusal, Swearing | Leave a comment

ONE-TWO-THREE PRIORITIES

Posted on August 23, 2016 by elainedanforth

Body first. . . breathe. . . well, what’s that worth? it helps you sense from places, patterns soft or hard, relaxed or tense, right now and here, just what you need. . . Brain second. . . Observe those … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Body, Body Mind, Brain, Breath, Heart, Mind Body, Priorites, Servant, Spirit, Thought, To do list | Leave a comment

LIVING WITH THE NOISE

Posted on April 8, 2016 by elainedanforth

You can’t begin to smash into oblivion this dreadful noise and all the ways that it annoys, But there’s ways that you can work with it– take a walk, for instance, and thus twixt it and you interpose some buffer … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Annoyance, Body, Brain, Breath, Buffer, Distance, Living with noise, Noise, Peace | Leave a comment

A DAY JUST FOR YOU

Posted on April 3, 2016 by elainedanforth

Do something sensible. Do something really crazy. Do something quite commendable. . . But then, before your secret dreams succumb to your brain screams that parrot memes on what it takes to be dependable, do something else, which, in another … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Brain, Crazy, Day, Dreams, Flowers, Just for you, Sensible | Leave a comment

HOLDING IT TOGETHER

Posted on March 22, 2016 by elainedanforth

When things slip and start to seem quite hard, and somehow, it occurs to you that all hell could soon break loose, and, from engine to caboose, things would just fall apart, step back, and from that dreary thinking track, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Brain, Breath, Breathing, Gut, Head, Heart, Holding it all together, Letting Go, Life, Mind Body, Thinking, Thought | Leave a comment

LOOK INTO MY EYES

Posted on November 25, 2015 by elainedanforth

I need to look into MY eyes, and drink the shiny, colored beauty there, in every roll and blink and sunlight-fluttering glare– an effort so to shake my mope, and aid myself into a better mode to hypnotize. . . … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Brain, Drought, Earth, Enterprise, Gut, Head, Heart, Hypnosis, Look into my eyes, Rain, Skies, Soul, Work | Leave a comment

CHOMPING AT LIFE

Posted on July 28, 2015 by elainedanforth

She who chomps the chance to feed on life seems quite the champ, with food in bite. . . for there’s no stewing obstructing her clear path to chewing, so, to the degree the fierce, wild cat within will purr, … Continue reading →

Posted in CHEWING, Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Appetite, Benefit, Brain, Brawn, Chewing, Eating, Feeling, Flow, Living water, Mind Body, Seeing, Self-Knowledge, Thanks, Universe | Leave a comment

THE HEADINESS OF SUMMER

Posted on July 1, 2015 by elainedanforth

My word!– A headiness comes to my head, for in my arteries has stirred the blood from heart of summer. It’s time the inhibitions now to shed, to free me to pick up again so many dreams deferred– pick up … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Seasons, Summer | Tagged Blood, Brain, Bring to term, Dream, Dream deferred, Head, Headiness, Heart, Integrity, Purpose, Thought, Wake | Leave a comment