Tag Archives: Gray Sky

A NOTE OF SUN, A NOTE OF GRAY

Posted on August 23, 2025 by elainedanforth

I. Quite a nice thing to notehow wonderful it can beto liveon an ordinary sunny morning. II. And when a cloak of graybedecks the skythere is a pleasant softnessto my contemplativemorning eye, A respite from sharp bright and heat,that, on … Continue reading →

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THE KIN OF THE FOREST-FALLING TREE

Posted on October 10, 2023 by elainedanforth

A muffledrondo of birdsongand chorus of child’s playblend under the mutesky of white-gray. A breath but wades a bitinto a fractionof the body’s depthand does not much inflate,but still allowscontinuance of life,a little bit of soundanda little bit of light. … Continue reading →

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FOG THICK– A POEM IN FOUR MINUTES

Posted on August 14, 2018 by elainedanforth

A poem in four minutes fog thick that veils the August sky with gray but brightness makes me feel I’m in a spacious and a lively bubble. . . the freeway brushing sound. . . the soaring sweep. . . … Continue reading →

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GRAY SATURDAY GREETING

Posted on June 9, 2018 by elainedanforth

Happy Saturday! Here now gray. AND hoping, wishing plenty sun upon me, and you, and EVERYONE!

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BLANK PAGE COOPERATE

Posted on January 12, 2018 by elainedanforth

Blank page cooperate. . . Step out. Fresh air, errands of need to go about. Follow not just what grown ups say to do to groups of girls in troops of scouts. Break forth! And seize the gray! And whatever … Continue reading →

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COLORS OF THE RAINBOW COME IN YOUR EYE

Posted on August 7, 2016 by elainedanforth

Colors of the rainbow come in your eye from the time of day you rise, you wake, and grow aware, for one more fresh, clean get-go! Some days, it seems, hues enter quick– the whole bright spectrum opens big and … Continue reading →

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PARKING IT ON A GRAY DAY

Posted on May 5, 2016 by elainedanforth

Gray day. . . +++++a dampened mood a heavier feel +++++a rhythm +++++yearning for a lilting rhyme. . . To go out, stay in, get things done, in the shineless interlude, and bide my time. . . Until the sun … Continue reading →

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SEEKING, ACCEPTING

Posted on March 18, 2016 by elainedanforth

The thing you seek sometimes won’t just up and break its way through daunting crowds of clouds dark gray, to fall out of the sky. . . There may be time that must go by, once Earth accepts, to take … Continue reading →

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SPRING EVENTIDE RIDE

Posted on March 4, 2016 by elainedanforth

Spring bright. . . eventide. . . trusty bike. . . pumping lungs. . . flowing blood. . . something like a routine ride. . . Gray damp hangs– Will clouds soon break into projected needed rains? And, up in … Continue reading →

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WISH I COULD SHOW YOU THE SKY

Posted on January 31, 2016 by elainedanforth

Wish I could show you this sparkling blue sky, with sun springing high, now transformed since the morn that hung, gray-blue pied, to show just clouds few floating white in slow flow, on the softest breeze ride as seen through … Continue reading →

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