Tag Archives: Growth

DAD, I’M GLAD

Posted on June 18, 2018 by elainedanforth

Dad, I’m so glad your strong self and presence and love I once had. But then, I was grown. . . Time to go out on my own, a time of challenge enough, when, as I would not have thought, … Continue reading →

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I AM A PEEP

Posted on May 30, 2018 by elainedanforth

I am a peep. I am a pipe. I am a megaphone. I make a sound that to distant lands resounds. I make a sight that starts small and faint but grows to tall and very bright. My presence shall … Continue reading →

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ME-MAKER, ME-MAKER, MAKE ME A ME!

Posted on April 18, 2018 by elainedanforth

Me-maker me-maker make me a me. . . I seem already here, but I don’t grow as simply as a tree. Some say I must act; some say, learn to just be. . . Is there some me that I … Continue reading →

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WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW

Posted on January 6, 2018 by elainedanforth

Whether you for sure don’t know or maybe, in this dreary weather, you really just don’t think you do, how things are, or which way they’re meant to go, try turning from the “I don’t know,” toward the plain “I … Continue reading →

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HOCUS POCUS. NONE SUCH, UNLESS. . .

Posted on December 7, 2017 by elainedanforth

Hocus pocus. . . There is none such that you can name or see or feel or touch– Unless you count the simple power our upright bodies and our rippled, wriggly, winding brains have to truly focus. If we’ve got … Continue reading →

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IT’S IN YOU– YOU FEEL IT

Posted on April 26, 2017 by elainedanforth

It’s in you. You feel it. It wants to grow, to get right out, but somehow, you conceal it. It’s your special deck of cards dealt out to you, and, somehow, you must deal it. There’s part of you wants … Continue reading →

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YOUR HUMAN VOICE

Posted on April 20, 2017 by elainedanforth

Take your one small human voice, and make a choice its sound to a whole new volume now to hoist.

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HOLD THAT THOUGHT!

Posted on April 14, 2017 by elainedanforth

Note to self: Hold that thought! Or else, just let it go and let it be. It probably will hold by itself, if it’s a thought I truly need. Just as a seed can wait to sprout, and later grow … Continue reading →

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THE MOVEMENT OF SPRING

Posted on April 12, 2017 by elainedanforth

The blooming the twittering the looming the jittering, the buzzing the zooming the rising, surprising, pop buds , and pop eyes-ing, the growth that we love and are loath to adjust to or bust to, the wind billow, bent willow, … Continue reading →

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SPRING IN SOUND

Posted on March 24, 2017 by elainedanforth

Birds tweet shrill like the tiny filaments that string a twig-bowed drag across a too-small violin. The freeway rush, the popping violets– both signs of growth predicaments that fan and flag, just as the breeze-blown grass spurts in the spring.

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