Tag Archives: Feeling

LIFE IS DELICIOUS

Posted on April 19, 2014 by elainedanforth

Life is delicious. . . sorrow, joy pleasure, pain earth’s interpose to block moon’s beam. . . thus bereft reflected sun, how red it seem! communion, service– passion. . . scarcity and surplus– righteous action begs to billow like a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Ache, Billow, Choice, Cloth, Communion, Earth, Eclipse, Fake, Feeling, Gusts, Interpost, Laughter, Mind Body, Moon, Overflow, Pain, Passion, Peal, Pleasure, Puffy, Quake, Real, Red, Righteousness, Sails, Service, Shine, Smiles, Sorrow, Sun, Thought, Wind, Woe | Leave a comment

UGH! GIVE ME A LITTLE DUCT TAPE OR A PLUG!

Posted on April 12, 2014 by elainedanforth

UGH! repair a leak or any thing that doesn’t work with a little duct tape or a makeshift plug. . . yes, it’s a lot like the adaged age-old chore of sweeping dirt under age-old adaged rug. . . but … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Adage, Age-old, Compromise, Contact, Deft, Duct tape, Feeling, Fix, Flow, Life, Life flow, Mind Body, Opening, Opinion, Plug, Repair, Shine, Solution, Sweeping dirt under the rug, Troubleshooting, Ugh, Union, Wholeness | Leave a comment

THE EQUINOX OF CHEW

Posted on March 25, 2014 by elainedanforth

Good morning, Chipper Chewsday Chums!– I am now up to break my fast. . . and listen for each and every spring time thing, awake, astir in my surroundings, all the life that blossoms out or flits and flies or … Continue reading →

Posted in CHEWING, Poetry, Spring, Thoughts on Macrobiotics, Yin and Yang | Tagged Acceptance, Acorns, Appreciation, Awareness, Birds, Blossoming, Chewing, Chewsday, Darkness, Day, Dew, Feeling, Flits, Flowers, Flying, Food, Form, Grains, Grass, Greens, Life, Light, Mind Body, Mouth, Nourishment, Oak, Opening, Panoply, Peace, Poetry, Putting to the test, Quiet, Readjustment, Satisfaction, Scurrying, Squirrels, Stillness, Stretch, Subtle, Sunbeam, Trees, Warmth, Worms | Leave a comment

LIFE’S CURVY TIGER STRIPES

Posted on March 19, 2014 by elainedanforth

Life’s rarely only black or white, it’s more often swerved and curved and texture mixed like the wild flanks whose skin’s the furry tiger stripe. . . and sometimes it’s illusive like the floating mist by sunlight kissed that forms … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Black, Confidence, Day, Fear, Feeling, Fur, Heart, Illusiveness, Life, Mind Body, Opening, Poetry, Purpose, Rainbow, Stripe, Tiger, White | Leave a comment

HAPPY TOES

Posted on March 18, 2014 by elainedanforth

Happy feet. . . and happy toes. . . the base from which a happy people grows. . .

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Feeling, Feet, Growth, Happiness, Life, Mind Body, People, Quick Reads, Toes | Leave a comment

TALK, TOUCH, LISTEN

Posted on March 13, 2014 by elainedanforth

Talk. . . Touch. . . Pause. Listen. . . Allow that moment of contact so much to glisten. . . without comment no cognitions to assist foment– Just F-E-E-L. . . and wait a stretch. . . the fullness … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Allow, Appreciation, Cognition, Confidence, Contact, Determination, Earth, Feeling, Foment, Glisten, Heart, Hope, http://promisingpoetsparkinglot.blogspot.com/2011/12/perfect-poet-award-week-57.html, Letting Go, Life, Listen, Little Bird, Little bit, Mind Body, Moment, Opening, Patience, Pause, Peace, Poetry, Purity\, Quiet, Reaching out, Receiving, Satisfaction, Softening, Speed, Surrender, Talk, Temptation, Thought, Touch | 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

IN-GENIE-OUS

Posted on March 6, 2014 by elainedanforth

Often when I stop and think, I see my wish is my command, if only I do stop and think, hear, and then obey– no need for sparkling sceptred sway of magic wand nor mercy from a power that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Appreciation, Bands, Chains, Command, Confidence, Desire, Fear, Feeling, Genie, Hearing, Higher Power, Hope, Life, LIstening, Magic Wand, Mercy, Mind Body, Opening, Pausing, Reaching out, Receiving, Restrained, Satisfaction, Sceptred sway, Seeing, Shackles, Stopping, Thought, Wish | Leave a comment

A PRAYER TO EAT

Posted on March 4, 2014 by elainedanforth

Dear God, Please help me now to eat– not more +++++than I need. . . not less +++++than what will nourish me, according to your will, to live the best life that I can, as you shall grant. Please bless … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prayer, Quick reads | Tagged Appreciation, Awareness, Confidence, Eating, Feeling, God, Hope, Life, Mealtime, Need, Nourishment, Opening, Poetry, Prayer, Purpose, Quick Reads, Reaching out, Receiving, Satisfaction | Leave a comment

NO ONE WILL GET THE BEST OF ME

Posted on February 21, 2014 by elainedanforth

Bravery accompanied by poetry. . . So well equipped, no one, no thing– +++++ except for you and me +++++ and those +++++ I choose– will get the best of me. . . My best is pretty good and even … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Bravery, Confidence, Feeling, Getting the best of (someone), Life, One's best, Perpetuity, Poetry, Proximity, Quick Reads, Worst | Leave a comment