Tag Archives: Need

A SWEET VALENTINE FROM THE PAST

Posted on February 15, 2018 by elainedanforth

Give yourself a little gift of thoughtful, loving service. . . after your need, or else, some thing that somehow simply makes you pleased. . . And it may befall that you forget, and later rediscover it, which multiplies your … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads, Uncategorized | Tagged Forgetting, Love, Need, Pleasure, Purpose, Rediscovery, Self-love, Service, Valentine | Leave a comment

NOW, NOW, NOW!

Posted on March 14, 2017 by elainedanforth

Now Now Now! Just give it here. . . I need it more than you do, anyhow! Take, take, take!– If I hear with attentive ear I notice, sure, that before long things get so, so heavy and woe add … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Flow, Full, Gifts, Give and take, Giving, Heavy, Impatience, Life, LIstening, Movement, Need, Now, Sieve, Stuck, Take, Univere | Leave a comment

WHERE IS A HAND, WHEN YOU NEED ONE?

Posted on June 17, 2016 by elainedanforth

Where is a hand, when you need one? Where’s care, where is the stand that someone takes, to get the wherewithal it takes to feed one? Where is the garden, where’s the ground, the land, on which to stand and … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Confidence, Curiosity, Envision, Garden, Ground, Land, Need, Pardon, Want, When you need a hand | Leave a comment

WHAT’S DEEPLY SWEET

Posted on October 24, 2015 by elainedanforth

What’s deeply sweet does not come from factories, refined, nor even from a hive where bees work in a similar state of mind– nor does it even grow in ground, on vine, nor even dangling high from trees– it’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems) | Tagged Food, Need, Satisfaction, Sweetness, Whim | Leave a comment

DROPPING THE NEED FOR EXCUSES

Posted on August 29, 2015 by elainedanforth

Once you drop the need to make excuse for everything you are and every thing you ever did or were, and then you cut you loose from all of your life’s chains and pains so slow assumed or suddenly bequeathed … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Being, Bequeath, Chains, Doing, Dream, Excuses, Heirlooms, Life, Need, Pain, Plant, Right Livelihood, Role, Seed, Star, Victim role, Vision, Work | Leave a comment

PAIN NO GAIN

Posted on April 3, 2015 by elainedanforth

Pain is NO gain. . . nor does it name you to any Hall of Fame– at least to none on Earth that be at all humane, and which have for you and humankind your lasting basic worth in mind– … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Again, Astray, Bent, Best bet, Bet, Better, Direction, Earth, Equal, Feel, Feeling Good, Future, Gain, Gaps, Good, Hall of Fame, Help, Humaine, Identify, Know, Lasting, Mind, Name, Need, Pain, Reach Benefit, Road, Show, Straight, Teach, True, Tune in, Understand, Way, Whatever, World, Worth, You | 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

LISTEN TO YOUR BODY

Posted on January 6, 2015 by elainedanforth

Listen to your body– it will tell you what you need. . . Of course you could go on just trying hard, and persist to strain your brain, But if, instead, you only would just quiet, sit, and, slow, unclench … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Attention, Body, Brain, Degree, Die, Fiber, Fist, Hear, Heed, Instead, Listen, Make space, Make time, Mind Body, Need, Ravel out, Respond, Space, Spark, Strain, Take note, Tension, Time, Trying, Trying hard, Unclench | Leave a comment

THE PATH FROM “OH TOO MUCH!”

Posted on January 6, 2015 by elainedanforth

Oh too much of oh too many things!! Not enough of the better kind of stuff that lets my body hum and moves my heart to sing. . . A brand new set of habits must I seek in order … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Abundance, Acceptance, Attract, Balance, Best, Better, Choose, Collecting Dust, Confidence, Connection, Dust, Equilibrium, Excess, Feeling, Habit, Hope, Kind, Letting Go, Life, Mind Body, Need, Not enough, Ripe, Roots, Seek, Shift, Sit around, Skip, Sparing, Stuff, Too many, Too much, WIngs | Leave a comment

A FAT TIME-CHUNK REPRISE

Posted on November 21, 2014 by elainedanforth

easy to believe what you want yea, maybe even what you need to believe. . . even when, unnoticed, a clock may stop but just to keep you on your notice-toes, also, unnoticed, then re-start, giving your wee bit late … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Appreciation, Bask, Believe, Believe what you want to believe, Chunk, Clock, Confidence, Determination, Dreamed, Easy, Extra, Fat, Feeling, Giving, Late, Latitude, Life, Need, Notice, On your toes, Oods, Poetry, Reprise, Restart, Revel, Ruse, Seeing, Shop, Stop, Succulent, Thought, Time, Unnoticed, Want, Wee, Wee bit, Yea | Leave a comment