Tag Archives: Gut

TO WAIT

Posted on March 30, 2018 by elainedanforth

To wait upon is not the same as, in the grander scheme, to serve. But, to serve anyone or anything, one must have power to wait. To change your rhythm, or perhaps sometimes, stop in your tracks, no matter how … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Breath, Guidance, Gut, Head, Heart, Life Dreams, Love, Mind Body, Service, Waiting | Leave a comment

YOU HEDGE YOUR BETS AGAINST YOURSELF

Posted on December 5, 2017 by elainedanforth

You feel pinned in. It is not clear which card to play or pot to place your ante in. . . You up it, though, and hedge your bets. You fight a war against yourself. And think you’re bound to … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Gut, Head, Heart, Hedging your bets, Internal conflict, Lose, Mind Body, Win | Leave a comment

MORE STRENGTH THAN YOU THINK

Posted on December 13, 2016 by elainedanforth

Strength there’s much more there than you may know, or in your wildest dreams may think, Just take a sec. . . let go the muscles in your neck. . . Then, take a breath. . . Let ride on … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Add up, Calm, Capillary, Disparagement, Feel, Fingers, First to blink, Gut, Hands, Head, Heart, Hell or high water, Love, Lungs, Skin, Stomach, Strength, Tall, Toes, True | Leave a comment

GIVE YOURSELF ALL THAT YOU NEED

Posted on June 24, 2016 by elainedanforth

When you give yourself all that you need in parts of you that feel like a baby, you then live well– yourself you aptly feed, and the crimson heart of you can skip from no to yes, bypassing anguished maybes, … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Baby needs, Confidence, Delight, Give to yourself, Gut, Heart, Needs, Nourish, Satisfaction | Leave a comment

LISTEN TO THE SOUND OF YOUR OWN VOICE

Posted on May 22, 2016 by elainedanforth

Listen to the sound of your own voice. Inside your heart, your gut, your throat, your head. . . Even if no one else outside of you can hear that anything is being said, Don’t lose the track of that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Earth, Gut, Heart, Life, Mind, Moon, Night Sky, Path, Purpose, Sky, Stars, Sun, Voice | Leave a comment

HOLDING IT TOGETHER

Posted on March 22, 2016 by elainedanforth

When things slip and start to seem quite hard, and somehow, it occurs to you that all hell could soon break loose, and, from engine to caboose, things would just fall apart, step back, and from that dreary thinking track, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Brain, Breath, Breathing, Gut, Head, Heart, Holding it all together, Letting Go, Life, Mind Body, Thinking, Thought | Leave a comment

LOOK INTO MY EYES

Posted on November 25, 2015 by elainedanforth

I need to look into MY eyes, and drink the shiny, colored beauty there, in every roll and blink and sunlight-fluttering glare– an effort so to shake my mope, and aid myself into a better mode to hypnotize. . . … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Brain, Drought, Earth, Enterprise, Gut, Head, Heart, Hypnosis, Look into my eyes, Rain, Skies, Soul, Work | Leave a comment

STRUT OUT ON A SATURDAY

Posted on October 31, 2015 by elainedanforth

Strut out on a Saturday– see whether you can gut, despite the slightly nippy weather, the mundane doldrums of the workaday. . . tune your ear to different drums, pick up your feet and knees to follow them, till your … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons | Tagged Confidence, Errands, Fun, Gut, Heart, Mind Body, Play, Restoration, Saturday, Self-care, Strut, Work, Workaday | Leave a comment

MAKE A WISH AND CHEW

Posted on March 24, 2015 by elainedanforth

Make a wish and chew on it. . . Swallow. . . Then forget. . . and just allow your gut and God to do the rest of it.

Posted in CHEWING, Poetry, Prayer, Quick reads | Tagged Acceptance, Allow, Chew, Chewing, Confidence, Forget, God, Gut, Love, Make, Make a wish, Mind Body, Poetry, Receiving, Rest, The rest, Thought, Trust, Wish | Leave a comment

THE LIGHT AT THE TOP OF THE TUNNEL

Posted on October 23, 2014 by elainedanforth

In a hole. . . gotta climb– just when you feel the most you’ll ever do is crawl. . . Breathe. . . to your gut, sink in. . . allow your heart to beat. . . listen to its … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Allow, Be, Breathe, Brilliancy, Cell, Climb, Confidence, Crawl, Fatal, Feeling, Gotta, Gut, Heart, Heartbeat, Hole, Light, Light at the end of the tunnel, Make, Mind Body, Most, Muscle, Opening, Panoramic, Poetry, Purpose, Rhythm, Rise, See, Shining, Sink in, Slip, Slipping, Stand, Strand, Swell, Wherewithal | Leave a comment