Tag Archives: Dark

BENT UNDER THE MORNING STAR

Posted on April 20, 2018 by elainedanforth

Bent and bent and bent in pain, despair. . . And very nearly broken. The time is given but, knowing not how good nor how much, it feels more lent, like an expiring subway token. The dreamers. . . Wonders … Continue reading →

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LETTING WINTER VISION IN

Posted on January 23, 2018 by elainedanforth

What can I say? The rain, the snow this time of year will have their sway. Much needed, but, in some places, overbleeded, to form a flood with tons of mud which washes homes and sends some folks to early … Continue reading →

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WINTER SLEEP CALLS

Posted on January 13, 2018 by elainedanforth

Sleep calls. Habits, shapes of rabbits, by wry coincidence, seen in the ceIling cracks or walls. . . Shadows beckon of next spring, while we are still here wintering, in hopes our next snowflake to glance, to lick, our next … Continue reading →

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TWO WORDS

Posted on February 9, 2017 by elainedanforth

Two words against the closing in and dark in which you hide– GET OUTSIDE!

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THE DARK OF NIGHT IS HERE AND NOW

Posted on February 1, 2017 by elainedanforth

It’s here. It’s now. The dark of night. The struggle between might and right. The tales of what’s been said and done, and those ones who thus become merely just”them,” and all because they’ve never clearly really been quite close … Continue reading →

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DEEP LIGHT

Posted on January 31, 2017 by elainedanforth

Deep need not be dark. Inside it’s bright. I am, thou art A fire of love and light.

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DAY AND NIGHT

Posted on December 14, 2016 by elainedanforth

Day and night– Two poles. . . and, in between, before the night fully takes hold, we have a time that quiets rays calms our life’s strong stirred-up waves we that we do call the evening.

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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 →

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WHEN YOU’RE WILLING TO GO THERE

Posted on August 24, 2016 by elainedanforth

When you’re willing to go there, you can also take someone, although the time it takes to persuade another may last a spate from long to middling to fair, and you’ll perhaps, have gone so oft or long, and you … Continue reading →

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THE WISPY WINK OF MOON

Posted on April 26, 2015 by elainedanforth

Such a gift to glimpse the slim and scythe-like wink of moon, a beauty and a slower, gentler cousin to the metronome. . . More visible in dark, but peaceful night, it keeps us in our proper rhythm on this … Continue reading →

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