Tag Archives: Loneliness

HIDE COO

Posted on September 18, 2020 by elainedanforth

Screen reach for people. . .news, music, stories– anythingfridge bare as before.

Posted in Haiku, Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Empty, Loneliness, Screen | Leave a comment

YES, YOU CAN SING

Posted on September 5, 2018 by elainedanforth

Yes, you can sing of what you do and what comes to you that feels blue, and absolutely wrong. . . But, do that only, and you’ll draw out the sad, afraid and mad and lonely. . . It may … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Anger, Choice, Fear, Feelings, Focus, Joy, Loneliness, Music, Sadness, Song | Leave a comment

LONELY ON THE JOURNEY

Posted on July 13, 2016 by elainedanforth

Loneliness. . . as sad as death, or even more. . . a restlessness, and underlying lack of comfort, while being in this single moment, feeling in this single breath, yearning, thinking that to be in company– with just anyone, … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Breath, Comfort, Company, Death, Friends, Humanity, Loneliness, Lonely, Restlessness | Leave a comment

A PERSON GETS NOT USED TO BEING TOTALLY ALONE

Posted on April 4, 2016 by elainedanforth

A person usually does not much get used to being totally alone. So, get yourself out into company– it is your choice– in this world you have a voice– you need not choose to just be satisfied, when all you … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Being yourself, Company, Dancing, Enjoyment, In your own skin, Laughter, Loneliness, Party, SInging, Smilng, Solitude, Wide smile | Leave a comment

ANSWERING THE CALL

Posted on February 7, 2016 by elainedanforth

Whensoe’er the bell shall toll, breathe in your nose your lungs your heart and guts to clear. . . breathe out, fear not too much what it could about. . . allow a smile to form; the corners of your … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Bell, Cupboard is bare, Emptiness, Food, Loneliness, Love, Mind Body, Reality, The Bell Tolls, The Call, Universe | Leave a comment

THE LONELY CHALLENGE

Posted on January 21, 2016 by elainedanforth

Loneliness my own, not lovely, solitude. . . the challenge is to rise above me, and descend, if need be, to the bone, if that’s where I’ll find the fortitude, so I can step forth, reach out, and do some … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Challenge, Loneliness, Love, Peace, Reaching out, Solitude | Leave a comment

TEDDY BEAR, COME HERE

Posted on January 20, 2015 by elainedanforth

Teddy bear. . . come here! Stay near. For I’ve landed in a brand new, empty year It’s started out as fun, which will continue on. . . And yet, this drought still dampers me to much more than a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Artist's loft, Belly, Bounce, Brand-new, Bravery, Bright, Cathedral, Cathedral vaults, Cell, Child, Clear, Cold, Cold stares, Come, Come here, Comfort, Coming of age, Company, Continue, Core, Count on, Crazed, Creep, Cushy, Dampers, Dare, Deep, Difficulty, Dread, Drought, Empty, Eventuality, Fear, Fearsome, Firm, Fleeting, Fly, Fun, Fuzy, Fuzzy, Generosity, Give, Grown-up, Have their way with (someone), Help, High, Hope, Hugged, Immortal artists, Joy, Keep your cook, Know, Landed, Landscape, Loneliness, Look up(wards), Low-lit, May, Me, Melodious, Molecule, Musty, Ne'er, Near, Need, Never before, NEW YEAR, Out of the stream, Pace, Penetrating, Permit, Place, Plough, Points, Pout, Resilient, Respond, Rocky, Round, Rushing, Sacred, Safely, Scoff, SIng, Sky, Song, Space, Stand, Stand firm, Stares, Started, Stay, Steadfast, Steep, Storm, Strong, Successfully, Support, Teddy bear, Throng, Tread, Unknown, Voice, Warm, Wide smile, Wonder, Yet | Leave a comment

YOU AND THE UNEXPECTED

Posted on September 19, 2014 by elainedanforth

The Unexpected pops up all the time, but often it is so routine there fires not even one neuron that’s ever started or has stopped for it, or upon it much reflected. . . Still, even when the future feels … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Accomplishment, All the time, Anger, Believe, Can, Can't Cannot, Fear, Grief, Interjected, Leaf, Life, Loneliness, Love, Move on, Neuron, Plan, Pops up, Reflected, Sadness, Slant, Swore, Thought, Time, Unexpected | 2 Comments

THE DEEP-FEARED LEAP

Posted on May 20, 2013 by elainedanforth

Sometimes it seems that the most fearsome things both feed my highest hopes and haunt my darkest dreams. . . And, it’s those things that I must do. . . regardless of the countless hoops I must jump through, despite … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Confidence, Connection, Darkness, Dreams, Fear, Heart, Hope, Leap of faith, Loneliness, Love, Mind Body, Poetry, Satisfaction, Warmth | Leave a comment

SPRING-CLEAN

Posted on February 12, 2013 by elainedanforth

Lonely. . . Pain injecting into brain. . . Upset +++++in belly, +++++throat to gut– +++++a glut, +++++an onslaught +++++fraught with fear +++++and desperation. . . Only +++++to lie in wait– +++++the lowly +++++inaction +++++I can take– +++++and in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Seasons, Spring | Tagged Ablution, Belly, Brain, Confidence, Faith, Fear, Glut, Gut, Inaction, Kindness, Loneliness, Mind Body, Pain, Poetry, Re-ordering, Spring, Spring Cleaning, Thought, Waiting | Leave a comment