Tag Archives: Progress

THE LIKES OF YOU

Posted on March 8, 2017 by elainedanforth

The likes of you. . . You’re way out there– there’s no excuse. . . You’re way too weird, you try to change– but as you feared, it’s just no use. . . Or so you say. But that’s because … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Awareness, Desing, Freedom, Identity, Life, Making a mark, Path, Posterity, Progress, Purpose, Seeing, Shift, Slips, Strength, Uniqueness | Leave a comment

BE WHATEVER AGE YOU ARE

Posted on November 11, 2016 by elainedanforth

Be whatever age you are. Each merits its own joy and pain; its crawls, its steps, its leaps its ease its strain. . . At each natural pinnacle and erected fortress turret, a different mode and mood you move to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Age, Be yourself, Change, Crawling, Experience, Feelings, Gradual, Incarnation, Joy, Layers, Leap, Magical, Pain, Personal development, Plain, Progress, Soul, Star, Tiers, Time, Walking | Leave a comment

A PRAYER OF MOVING FORWARD

Posted on August 28, 2016 by elainedanforth

Dear God, This is Your day. You are already making it all possible for me. It is for me to let it happen. You are. You are with me. You’ve seen me far. Please. Be. See. (I know you see.) … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prayer, Quick reads | Tagged God, I am, Infinity, Letting Go, Life, Moving Forward, Possibility, Prayer, Progress, Purpose, See me through, Seeing | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Anticipation, Meditation, Patience, Prayer, Progress, Restoration, Skyscraper mail chute | Leave a comment

STEPPING FURTHER INTO THE DANCE

Posted on March 1, 2016 by elainedanforth

Difficulty helps move you along for there you will learn things you couldn’t, had you not had to be so strong. And it moves you further yet along, when you step up to dance with it, and sing to it … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Dancing, Difficulty, Gratitude, Happy, Happy Song, Progress, SInging | Leave a comment

RETOOLING FOR THE DURATION

Posted on December 13, 2015 by elainedanforth

When mishaps come and your usual tools inform you for the moment that with the tasks they always do whenever you shall ask, they are “so done,” take out your ingenuity and your human spirit’s strength to function on in … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Human Spirit, Process, Progress, Skill, Strength, Tools | Leave a comment

ONCE UPON A MEG

Posted on October 30, 2015 by elainedanforth

Many years ago, I was working in the office of a small, but successful company. A lot of the power computer work (work requiring big computer memory) was done by the administrative staff, so the partners of the firm did … Continue reading →

Posted in Anecdotes, Humor, Prose | Tagged Computers, Learning curve, Life, Obsolescence, Office work, Online, Progress, Technology | 2 Comments

IT’S OKAY TO BE YOU

Posted on May 7, 2015 by elainedanforth

It really is okay to be the person that you are. . . but if it doesn’t feel that way, then let that be your reason another course to steer– and let the time for that begin today! Then, day … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Be yourself, Gradual, LIttle by little, Progress, Transformation, You're okay | Leave a comment

SENDING LOVE TO THE MOURNING

Posted on December 9, 2014 by elainedanforth

Love to you in this fresh twilight of grief, as you progress from the night of new mourning to the time beyond, where will rise the new light of morning.

Posted in Poetry, Prayer, Quick reads | Tagged Beyond, Feeling, Fresh, Light, Love, Morning, Mourning, New, Opening, Poetry, Progress, Quick Reads, Rise, Time, Twilight | Leave a comment

COUNT!

Posted on July 19, 2014 by elainedanforth

If what you have or what you do doesn’t seem to count for you, maybe it’s time you spent a sec or two to count how you are blessed, and how much of late and over all the time that … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Appreciation, Blessings, Count, Feeling, Life, Mind Body, Progress, Satisfaction, Thought, Time | 2 Comments