Tag Archives: Difficulty

NO WAY TO FAKE

Posted on March 16, 2018 by elainedanforth

There’s no way to eat your way, compete your way, fake your way through this. There’s no way to run away, nor freeze so it won’t see or won’t look your way, nor to get around, get over, get under. … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Challenge, Difficulty, Emotional Eating, Escape, Fight-Flight-Freeze, nemesis, Obstacle, Run away | Leave a comment

IF YOU WANT TO KEEP LIFE UP

Posted on June 26, 2017 by elainedanforth

It may get boring or get tough, but if you want to keep life up, resist the urge to merge with sleep, whether hot, disturbed or deep, at peace or snoring. Draw from, give back to life’s great font, though … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Boldness, Boredom, Challenge, Continue, Determination, Difficulty, Life, Love, Perseverance, Purpose, Strength | Leave a comment

AS HARD AS HARD AS HARD

Posted on March 7, 2017 by elainedanforth

As hard as hard as hard can get (not really), remember +++++you’ve still got more cards– +++++including laughter– +++++and, +++++it’s quite clear, +++++despite your fear, +++++you’re walking, kicking– +++++not dead yet. . . And things will feel much easier with … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Breath, Difficulty, Ease, Fear, Feelings, Life, Living to tell the talke, Not dead (yet) | Leave a comment

BE AWESOME, FOR YOU ARE

Posted on October 3, 2016 by elainedanforth

Be awesome. And then be held in honest, humble awe as one would feel before some mighty tree, which, prudent, for the good of all, is felled, with swift, sad whacks of clean-edged axe or the loud and buzzing gnawing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Awe, Awesome, Defense Mechanisms, Difficulty, Ease, Feeling, Flow, Give, Identity, Natural, Pretense, Receive, Self, Tension, Truth | Leave a comment

THE KEY STRAIGHT THROUGH

Posted on September 22, 2016 by elainedanforth

Close your eyes. . . breathe deep into the dark +++++of your heart’s throbs +++++and constant flow +++++of your pulsing, warm insides. . . Let them fully know the obstacle– a long unseen, but felt, locked door– What is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Breathe, Commitment, Determination, Difficulty, Ease, Feeling, Heart, Inner voice, Key, Locked, Loosing, Mind Body, Obstacle, Perseverence, Portal, Practice, Returning to source, Seeing, Seven Levels, Skill, Tight | Leave a comment

STEPPING FURTHER INTO THE DANCE

Posted on March 1, 2016 by elainedanforth

Difficulty helps move you along for there you will learn things you couldn’t, had you not had to be so strong. And it moves you further yet along, when you step up to dance with it, and sing to it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Dancing, Difficulty, Gratitude, Happy, Happy Song, Progress, SInging | Leave a comment

LIFE HARD OR EASY

Posted on May 5, 2015 by elainedanforth

Life. . . let it be quick, or let it be slow– but let it be easy– yet, not so much so that you’ve +++++no more room to grow +++++than, from a candle, +++++has a wax-entrapped wick, nor that you’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Candle, Challenge, Difficulty, Ease, Easy, Freedom, Good taste, Growth, Life, Love, Meaning, Pace, Quick, Range, Slow, Speed, Trap | Leave a comment

TEDDY BEAR, COME HERE

Posted on January 20, 2015 by elainedanforth

Teddy bear. . . come here! Stay near. For I’ve landed in a brand new, empty year It’s started out as fun, which will continue on. . . And yet, this drought still dampers me to much more than a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Artist's loft, Belly, Bounce, Brand-new, Bravery, Bright, Cathedral, Cathedral vaults, Cell, Child, Clear, Cold, Cold stares, Come, Come here, Comfort, Coming of age, Company, Continue, Core, Count on, Crazed, Creep, Cushy, Dampers, Dare, Deep, Difficulty, Dread, Drought, Empty, Eventuality, Fear, Fearsome, Firm, Fleeting, Fly, Fun, Fuzy, Fuzzy, Generosity, Give, Grown-up, Have their way with (someone), Help, High, Hope, Hugged, Immortal artists, Joy, Keep your cook, Know, Landed, Landscape, Loneliness, Look up(wards), Low-lit, May, Me, Melodious, Molecule, Musty, Ne'er, Near, Need, Never before, NEW YEAR, Out of the stream, Pace, Penetrating, Permit, Place, Plough, Points, Pout, Resilient, Respond, Rocky, Round, Rushing, Sacred, Safely, Scoff, SIng, Sky, Song, Space, Stand, Stand firm, Stares, Started, Stay, Steadfast, Steep, Storm, Strong, Successfully, Support, Teddy bear, Throng, Tread, Unknown, Voice, Warm, Wide smile, Wonder, Yet | Leave a comment

MOVING THROUGH

Posted on January 13, 2014 by elainedanforth

Move through the good times. . . move through the bad. . . even when the movement proves clumsy and quite difficult. . . it lets me live to see a moon waxing high above my tree. . . and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Appreciation, bad times, Confidence, Difficulty, Feeling, Gladness, Good times, Healing, Heart, Moon, Movement, Poetry, Quick Reads, Sky | Leave a comment

THICK INTO THURSDAY

Posted on September 12, 2013 by elainedanforth

Thoroughly Thursday. . . and in the thick of it. . . may you thrive in your continued strive, and even should it make you itch like hives, may you savor every lick of it– and even love it.

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Confidence, Difficulty, Enjoyment, Hope, Mind Body, Opening, Poetry, Savor, Strive, Thick of it, Thrive, Thursday | Leave a comment