Tag Archives: Explore

LIFE DOES NOT STOP

Posted on April 12, 2015 by elainedanforth

Life does not stop. Not even on a Sunday. Maybe ESPECIALLY not on a Sunday. So take your seats, and buckle up, for the anchor is aweigh!

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Anchor, Aweigh, Buckle up, Especially, Explore, Life, Seat, Stop, Sunday, Take your seats | Leave a comment

THIS WAS A WOMAN

Posted on January 22, 2015 by elainedanforth

This was a woman crouching in readiness for the coming of happiness hitting her like a rich cream pie in the face. . . mugging for the camera, evoking the chimera of the racer she’d been and the fit little … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Creativity, Day, Explore, Life, Light, Love, Opening, Purpose, Reaching out, Seeing, Thought, Woman | Leave a comment

RIDING INTO SOLSTICE

Posted on December 13, 2014 by elainedanforth

Riding into solstice even on a funky folding bike– so tiny in the fading twilight. . . Life does not wait. The time is right, to muster what finesse you’ve got and add it to your modicum of might. Yea, … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Acceptance, Appreciation, Bicycle, BIke, Comfortable, Comfy, Confidence, Crazy, Darkness, Determination, Enterprise, Explore, Feel right, Feeling, Find, Finesse, Groove, Might, Mind Body, Modicum, Moves, Muster, Opening, Poetry, Riding, Satisfaction, Solstice, The time is right, Twilight, Winter, Yea | 2 Comments

RECEIVE

Posted on October 6, 2014 by elainedanforth

Do what you must to live, but also trust. . . And open up to help. . . Receive. . . And feel relief. . . Bend low, and be amazed at the degree of ease life’s process and its … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Acceptance, Amazed, Appreciation, Bend, Confidence, Ease, Explore, Eyes, Fear, Feeling, Fruit, Heart, Help, Joy, Love, Low, Mind Body, Opening, Peace, Plant, Poetry, Process, Receiving, Relief, Seeds, Trust, Wonders | Leave a comment

A MONDAY PRAYER

Posted on September 15, 2014 by elainedanforth

Monday. . . a mountain looms so large, beginnings fraught with fear and doom, clouds grey and heavy weigh things down, but, I must admit, they fall short as omens to portend my seconds’ passed sensation of unnavigable gloom. . … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Acceptance, Appreciation, Blooms, Confidence, Darkness, Day, Determination, Doom, Earth, Expand, Explore, Fear, Feeling, Gloom, Heart, Hope, Life, Marvel, Miraculous, Mirrors, Omen, Portend, Prayer, Reaching out, Receiving, Satisfaction, Seeing, Sky, Stretch, Thought, Vision, Walking, Wink | Leave a comment

FAST FORWARD: SPRING!

Posted on March 10, 2014 by elainedanforth

Fast forward: Spring! A rising tide of warmth swept down with foggy chill. . . sun creeps quick back from distant south. . . a skipping forth on soft, sweet earth still risks the fate of sudden spill: and then, … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Day, Determination, Explore, Feeling, Gray Sky, Hope, Life, Light, Love, Mind Body, Opening, Poetry, Purpose, Quick Reads, Receiving, Satisfaction, Seasons, Spring, Spring Forward, Walking | Leave a comment

NOW SIT I DOWN: A MEALTIME BLESSING

Posted on October 8, 2013 by elainedanforth

Now sit I down to chew my food and pass with God an interlude. . . If I apply my jaws and teeth I taste the texture of all life And of the love that grounds it from beneath.

Posted in CHEWING, Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Acceptance, Appreciation, Chewing, Explore, Feeling, God, Life, Love, Mind Body, Opening, Poetry, Prayer, Purpose, Quick Reads, Receiving, Satisfaction | Leave a comment

WHAT GIFT ARE YOU RECEIVING?

Posted on August 8, 2013 by elainedanforth

Right now, with this very breath. . . what gift are you receiving? Close your eyes, and breathe again, and what you get may not be what you thought, but there it is, though maybe beyond believing.

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads, Uncategorized | Tagged Appreciation, Awareness, Believing, Breath, Breathing, Explore, Feeling, Gift, Mind Body, Moment, Now, Poetry, Quick Reads, Receiving, Thought | Leave a comment

VICISSITUDES

Posted on August 2, 2013 by elainedanforth

Vicissitudes From small to big big to small. . . so slow it’s hard to know that there’s been any grow (or shrink) at all. . . from fervent feel to writhing grip on think, extremes soon mellow. . . … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Change, Clarity, Confidence, Explore, Feeling, Growth, Knowledge, Land, Love, Mind Body, Opening, Poetry, Sea, Second-nature, Shrinking, Thought, Time, Vicissitudes | Leave a comment

WHAT HAS THE UNIVERSE?

Posted on May 12, 2013 by elainedanforth

What has the Universe in store, in mind, for me? If I delve, and my mind sound, I sense it’s something more than penning verse, or even every wonder-thing that’s taken me to joyous heights or any painful, horror swing … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Balance, Calm, Confidence, Depths, Discovery, Earth, Explore, Feeling, Heights, Hope, Life, Mind Body, Ordeal, Patience, Poetry, Purpose, Survival, Test, Universe | Leave a comment