Tag Archives: Plants

POEM IN A WINK

Posted on February 2, 2017 by elainedanforth

Quick as a wink, words spill on a page– so fast, I might miss how they there get arranged, if I blink. Thoughts and blips from my mind and my blood and my heart and my bones and my guts … Continue reading →

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THE OPPORTUNITY

Posted on May 20, 2016 by elainedanforth

Will I find me the opportunity in the operating system? Will I blindly beg for immunity, so I can diss all pursuit of my serenity and bypass it, with my own liberal permission? Will I be inclined to ignore the … Continue reading →

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FREED THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE

Posted on May 17, 2016 by elainedanforth

Free yourself– peel gently off the climbing, winding vines that bind. . . And breathe into the icky-sticky tracks where wickedly invading tendrils used to grip and cling, to suck the life it strangled tight, right through your resisting skin, … Continue reading →

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BREATHE, PEACE, POWER

Posted on February 21, 2016 by elainedanforth

Breathe. . . slough off the stress. . . accept whatever hint of peace you can accept, let go the grip you have on pain, so you can cease to seethe, forget the fearsome, sad and angry tales you tell … Continue reading →

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WONDER RAIN

Posted on November 2, 2015 by elainedanforth

The long awaited flow of water, fallen from the sky, over, into land, creates a base to nurture animals and plants. . . and, if we learn the art of sharing and of sparing, as is proper, we may also … Continue reading →

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MONDAY MUDDLE THROUGH THE MUNDANE

Posted on October 20, 2015 by elainedanforth

moping the mopping muddling through the mundane, but admitting ample possibility that comes with new beginning. . . imagining the magic inspiring its spread on the solid land on which we tread, and seeping to the ocean deep, every kind … Continue reading →

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GRATEFUL FOR THE MEAL, THE GREAT OUTDOORS, AND EVEN MOM

Posted on June 1, 2013 by elainedanforth

Grateful for this summer’s day, though, for my taste, I could find another yet so much more lovely and more temperate. . . Grateful to the great outdoors with branches overhead instead of roofs. . . with dirt and growing … Continue reading →

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