Tag Archives: Rain

FROM CANYON’S BOTTOM, OPPORTUNITIES FOR CLIMBING

Posted on May 18, 2025 by elainedanforth

Living at a canyon’s bottomleaves many openings for climbing. . . Yet,some days, when rushing torrents’wind-whipped water flows,life can feel boxed in and slippery, treacherous,though all the movement leaves not enough pausefor things to fester and become rotten. Or can … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Winter | Tagged Low point, Rain, Rushing stream, Torrents, Treacherous Terrain, Wind | Leave a comment

SPRING SPRUNG SO STRONG

Posted on March 15, 2023 by elainedanforth

The burstof the dominating sunreturning. . .the long ago quenched thirstof drought-wracked landwith snow and torrentsoverflowing. . . the pink-white petalstheir five point, brief-breathedstarsin chilling tempswith an uncommon shyness forming, as the upward forcespushing lifecan wash some living ones to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Spring, Winter | Tagged Drought, Life, Rain, Spring | Leave a comment

SPRING FUN

Posted on March 28, 2022 by elainedanforth

Rains wash, muds squish. . . heaven and earth coalesce. . . stomp with mirth. . . what a mess!

Posted in Poetry, Seasons, Spring | Tagged Rain | Leave a comment

THE POWER PUSH OF SPRINGTIME

Posted on April 4, 2019 by elainedanforth

The springtime rises, ever green gentle, blooming, beautiful, , , incomparably powerful. . . a world that lay in dormant rest shoots up again to muddy-lush, to make it seem as if all life would ever move this strong and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Seasons, Spring, Winter | Tagged Beauty, Cold, Flowers, Grorwth, Invisible, Movement, Mud, Power, Rain, Wind | Leave a comment

DARE. . . BUT BE INTELLIGENT ABOUT IT

Posted on February 18, 2019 by elainedanforth

Dare. But be intelligent about it. . . When faced with the likes of a proud and wounded elephant, best not to fight it, shout it, or blithely to ignore it’s there. Respect it, greet it, give it space, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Attention, Care, Dare, Fresh Air, Intelligence, Plans, Rain, Respect, Sky, Success | Leave a comment

THE CLEAR IS COAST

Posted on August 4, 2018 by elainedanforth

The clear is coast. . . But where is clear? Just when you crave it most? Seems everywhere, much clutter’s glutted, struggling, groping forth, with the easiest and most pleasing way obstructed, ramrodding not quite through, though banging some seeming … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Brilliance, Clutter, Coast is clear, Darkness, Friends, Head, Heart, Lift, Obstruction, Pain, Paying forward, Rain, Struggle | Leave a comment

LETTING WINTER VISION IN

Posted on January 23, 2018 by elainedanforth

What can I say? The rain, the snow this time of year will have their sway. Much needed, but, in some places, overbleeded, to form a flood with tons of mud which washes homes and sends some folks to early … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Seasons, Winter | Tagged Cycles, Damp, Dark, Eyes, Heart, Honoring, Love, Nature, Neighbors, Rain, Reflection, Rest, Restoration, Snow, Sun, Time of year, Understanding Deep, Vision, Weather, Wet, Winter | Leave a comment

WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW

Posted on January 6, 2018 by elainedanforth

Whether you for sure don’t know or maybe, in this dreary weather, you really just don’t think you do, how things are, or which way they’re meant to go, try turning from the “I don’t know,” toward the plain “I … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Winter | Tagged Air, Answer, Between a rock and a hard p;lace, Cold, Direction, Flow, Growth, Knowledge, Movement, Perception, Rain, Reality, Soil, Strength, Stuck, Sun, Vision, Wonder | Leave a comment

HERE COMES THE RAIN, SO DANCE AND SING

Posted on November 16, 2017 by elainedanforth

Here comes the rain again. Therefore, get out, stand forth, And, like Gene Kelly, dance and sing, and spread your laughter and your joyful smiles for miles, to sweep round east and west and south and north, the marks of … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Uncategorized, Winter | Tagged Dance, Fresh, Outdoors, Rain, SIng, Start, Year | Leave a comment

ANOINT THE DAY, ANOINT YOURSELF

Posted on March 7, 2017 by elainedanforth

Anoint the day. . . Anoint yourself. . . Dive right in– let your heart sing, at clanging ring of morning bell. Stride right outside, and see the dew and maybe sparkling raindrops too, which yet do cling on both … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Seasons, Spring, Uncategorized | Tagged Anoint, Bliss, Children, Creek, Day, Dew, Fresh Air, Morning bell, Nannies, Park, Playing, Purpose, Rain, Sand, Sand castles, Serve, Toddlers | Leave a comment