Tag Archives: Change

BEAUTY DEEP AND FLEETING

Posted on January 7, 2026 by elainedanforth

There is a deep and fleeting beauty to this and every day, by wee star hours through rising dawn and morning sun, up till high or low-slung noon, depending on the season, and then, afterwards, when the sun arcs back … Continue reading →

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BEING WINTER, WEATHERING SUMMER

Posted on July 10, 2024 by elainedanforth

Being winterand weatheringthe blue and brightand sometimes flatteningheat of summer, flanked byand the temperate streaksamid the rapid changeof birthing, burgeoning springand crisply shriveling, dying fall. . . And though that turn of year descendingcan prove reflective and relaxingand brings me … Continue reading →

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SEA CHANGE BY VICISSITUDES

Posted on May 20, 2024 by elainedanforth

Sea changeby vicissitudes. So strange. . . especiallyif you missthe interludes.

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THE WINDS OF CHANGE, THE GLARE OF DOUBT

Posted on May 12, 2024 by elainedanforth

Change.Hard to live with it.Can’t live without it. Strange.The stuff of these utterances I posit.I know, contains a lot of nonsense,and yet, with regard to this one, I know it needs the light of careful scrutiny,that stands right upto ask … Continue reading →

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HIBERNATION

Posted on December 15, 2023 by elainedanforth

It may be good to keep in mind that the trees make it through the winter, even though they must give up the beauty and food their leaves make, for their and our own sake. . . the bareness and … Continue reading →

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HOW DO YOU RIDE THE CHANGE?

Posted on October 9, 2018 by elainedanforth

How do you ride the change? (Though you may yearn to fight it, clear it. . .) How do you nix or take the risk while some straggling part of you yet trembles and lags back to fear it? How … Continue reading →

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ALTHOUGH NOBODY SEES ME GROW

Posted on August 3, 2018 by elainedanforth

Although maybe nobody any longer sees me grow– they think I’m all grown up. . . But, yet, I smile and laugh quite like a child, so free and very happily, to know, regardless what I do or not, I’m … Continue reading →

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I AM ME

Posted on July 11, 2018 by elainedanforth

I am me. The only person I can be. That is OK– I’m really meant to be exactly as I am– yes, just this way. This is now. In the past, there was a “then,” I grow bits different every … Continue reading →

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SCREEN TIME SCRUTINY

Posted on February 1, 2018 by elainedanforth

Screen. Scrutiny. Where have I, what have I for how long have I been, by some cyber captain commandeered– (It’s weird), captivated, fascinated, energized and enervated. . . Both night and day. . . And right ’bout now it seems … Continue reading →

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DO NOT DESPAIR

Posted on October 24, 2017 by elainedanforth

Do not despair. For a dark and dire outlook, when twisted, tweaked, or briskly shook, can with a clever hand be shaped, if outlook has a muddy face. . . Or if a rigid, rocky, sharp-edged view, hope from despair … Continue reading →

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