Tag Archives: Feeling

WHAT IS THIS ASH?

Posted on July 1, 2014 by elainedanforth

What is this ash? What is this dust? It’s but a fraction of what once was my only source of love. . . A few bright petals sprinkled in the grayish powder, box of pine. . . she looks so … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Prayer, Quick reads | Tagged Acceptance, Appreciation, Ash, Beginning, Boat, Box, Crying, Darkness, Dust, Earth, Feeling, Fraction, Hope, Life, Mind Body, Opening, Petals, Pine, Poetry, Seasons, Song, Summer, Thought, Tide, Time, Water, Wind, Words | Leave a comment

FEELING GOOD

Posted on June 27, 2014 by elainedanforth

There are times when a rub to your tummy or pat to your head can do more good than anything you can read or be fed to help make you feel good inside. . . and if that helps, for … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Feeling, Feeling Good, Food, Head pat, Life, Love, Mind Body, Opening, Poetry, Reading, Sweetness, Thought, Treat, Tummy rub | Leave a comment

THE OMNIPRESENT HEAVENS

Posted on June 26, 2014 by elainedanforth

The heavens. . . always there for us whether they get mention, or seem invisible as air to us.

Posted in Poetry, Prayer, Quick reads | Tagged Air, Always, Appreciation, Feeling, Heavens, Hope, Invisible, Life, Mention, Mind Body, Omnipresence, Quick Reads, Reaching out, Receiving, Sky | Leave a comment

UPLOADING THE FUTURE

Posted on June 25, 2014 by elainedanforth

The future takes one heck of a long time to download– I might as well, then, venture out, and seek it, feel, it hear it, smell it, touch it, see it– find out what it’s all about. . . and … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Thoughts on Macrobiotics | Tagged Assured, Determination, Download, Feel, Feeling, Fragrance, Fruit, Future, Hear, Hope, Love, Make a difference, Opening, Participate, Path, Peace, Poetry, Purpose, Reaching out, Rise to the time, See, Seek, Senses, Smell, Taste, Ten Thousandfold, Thought, Time is ripe, True, Upload, Venture out, Waiting, Walking | Leave a comment

THE PERFECTION INTERSECTION

Posted on June 24, 2014 by elainedanforth

the sole worth of the notion of perfection lies in the place where it with road of life makes intersection. . . perhaps more often so not so much through action but in looking how things have gone and how … Continue reading →

Posted in Quick reads | Tagged Acceptance, Appreciation, Feeling, Intersection, Life, Light, Mind Body, Opening, Path, Perfection, Place, Poetry, Quick Reads, Reflection, Road | Leave a comment

THE BREW WITHIN MY SKULL

Posted on June 21, 2014 by elainedanforth

Solstice lull. . . fog hangs low, makes day-bright skies dull. . . a simmered brew of livening soup is taking shape within my skull.

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads, Seasons, Summer | Tagged Feeling, Food, Life, Seasons, Soup, Summer, Thought | Leave a comment

THE SUDDEN LIFT

Posted on June 21, 2014 by elainedanforth

It’s such a gift when, sudden quick, the world gets different, and even leaden cares get lifted. . . in ways you’d never have expected.

Posted in Poetry, Prayer, Quick reads | Tagged Appreciation, Cares, Feeling, Gift, Leaden, Life, Lifted, Mind Body, Opening, Poetry, Quick Reads, Sudden, Thought, Unexpected, World | Leave a comment

BE MERCIFUL

Posted on June 16, 2014 by elainedanforth

Be merciful– above all, in dealing with yourself. . . or else, you might as well relegate the whole light of your life to some unseen and out-of-farthest reach dark, dusty shelf. . . but if you treat yourself with … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Acceptance, Confidence, Feeling, Life, Light, Mercy, Poetry, Reaching out, Receiving | Leave a comment

A BAFFLING CROSSROADS

Posted on June 4, 2014 by elainedanforth

Amazed at a baffling crossroads, long I stand. . . While this was well foreseen, picking my next direction hereon in was not– could never have been– planned. . . a flat path or down-rolling road might seem to let … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Seasons, Summer | Tagged Acceptance, Amazed, Appreciation, Baffling, Bear Up, Choosing, Circular, Climbing, Confidence, Crossroads, Crux, Day, Destiny, Direction, Discern, Feeling, Flat path, Foreseen, Grope, Heart, Heavy, Highest, Hill, Holding Dear, Home, Hour hand, Intrepid, Lands, Lighter, Load, Lower, Mind Body, Minute hand, One by one, One foot in front of the other, Panoramic view, Path, Peace, Phase, Planned, Reality, Reluctant, Satisfaction, Seasons, Seeing, Sights, Sky, Slough off, Smiling, Span, Standing, Summer, Thought, Threshold, Universe, Walking, Watch, WInding road | 2 Comments

SIX MINUTE POEM

Posted on May 31, 2014 by elainedanforth

I’ll give myself minutes– six– to write some lines and try thereby to fix something that cannot be fixed. A loss so large I’m at a loss where to begin to grieve. . . tears come but mostly go. . … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged "To thine own self be true", Acceptance, Appreciation, At a loss, Cry, Day, Death, Dying, Feeling, Fix, Grieving, Hamlet, Head above water, Holding hands, If only, Life, Loss, Love, Mind Body, Minutes, Mirror, Out of the woods, Poetry, Reaching out, Regret, Shakespeare, Tears, Thought, Time, Time Limit | Leave a comment