Tag Archives: Patience

DO NOT DESPAIR

Posted on October 24, 2017 by elainedanforth

Do not despair. For a dark and dire outlook, when twisted, tweaked, or briskly shook, can with a clever hand be shaped, if outlook has a muddy face. . . Or if a rigid, rocky, sharp-edged view, hope from despair … Continue reading →

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THE MOVES OF PUSH AND PULL

Posted on October 3, 2017 by elainedanforth

‘Tis good and apt to move and act quite stiff and quick on fair and proper warning, but much more rich to breathe fresh air, in calm and patience full and thick, where eyes and spirit open up to wide … Continue reading →

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LOVE AND HONOR AND THY NEIGHBOR

Posted on June 18, 2017 by elainedanforth

It’s hot more stirring in the form of noise– for cheer and warmth, a need, it’s not. At times like these it is a labor well to heed the call inside your heart to love your neighbor, Just as the … Continue reading →

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SLIPPED THROUGH MY FINGERS, HELD MY TONGUE

Posted on March 28, 2017 by elainedanforth

That does it. Slipped right through my fingers. Held my tongue. Come quips and queues. A sting that lingers. . . No matter– Just calm and lull the present chatter then pause a breath fill up to brim, and void … Continue reading →

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SPRING IS IN THE AIR

Posted on February 16, 2017 by elainedanforth

Spring is the air. . . In my heart. . . In my step, next, When I allow the little buds within me just to be there. Give them sun, give them love, and proper feed, attend and give exactly … Continue reading →

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CULTIVATING FAITH

Posted on December 24, 2016 by elainedanforth

Cultivate faith in self, and in the sum of everything and everybody else. So that you may with patience wait, or else, in boldness, draw the breath to embark upon your destined daunting quest, in which you do your best … Continue reading →

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THE POSTAL CHUTE PRAYER

Posted on August 26, 2016 by elainedanforth

You know those old mail slots? In the old movies from a world long ago, with buildings stacked to dizzying elevations? Where you’d see envelopes slip down by like white birds zipping through the dark, as they sped down their … Continue reading →

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HE LIKES ME, HE LIKES ME NOT

Posted on August 2, 2016 by elainedanforth

He Likes me. . . He Likes me not. . . He Likes me. . . If memory serves, what once was done +++++with wistful plucks +++++of soft, white daisy petals +++++from their sunny, yellow middle, +++++to wind suspense +++++from … Continue reading →

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STAND JUST LIKE A TREE

Posted on November 15, 2015 by elainedanforth

Stand firmly rooted to the ground, arms upstretched, just like a tree. . . What will that do, while twixt the Earth and Sky stand you? The answer may come slow, but won’t come from sweat of your brow. So, … Continue reading →

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WISH AND WAIT

Posted on August 22, 2015 by elainedanforth

make a wish. . . and wait. . . Because for the wishers, the patience it will take may prove more great than for the fishers.

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