Tag Archives: Reaching out

LET SUN AND BREATH BE

Posted on August 25, 2018 by elainedanforth

Let sun and breath be. Let them in when it is time. Let them leave when it is time. Let dirt and weeds be. Let them be just where they are. Their special nourishment and beauty is meant to rule … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Beauty, Breath, Let be, Love, Night Sky, Nourishment, Reaching out, Sun, Warmth | Leave a comment

HERE’S A HAND

Posted on May 23, 2018 by elainedanforth

Here’s a hand I hold to you. . . if you pick it up, I hold your hand, and you, mine, too. The fingers either clasping palms or interlaced, and then, eventually, released. . . but warmth and finger pulse … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems | Tagged Fit, Hands, Holding hands, Love, Reaching out | Leave a comment

STAY WITH ME, YOU THING CALLED LOVE

Posted on January 24, 2018 by elainedanforth

Hold steady. you all-inclusive, into my smaller self intrusive, crucial thing called love, Stay with me until I clearly feel and see I can be taller, weller, and of my goodness more profusive, to live at last a life that … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Endless, Feeling, Goodness, Heart, Love, Profuse, Reaching out, Seeing, SInging, Sky, Stay, Steady, Tall, Well, World | Leave a comment

TWO WORDS

Posted on February 9, 2017 by elainedanforth

Two words against the closing in and dark in which you hide– GET OUTSIDE!

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Closing in, Dark, Determination, Outside, Reaching out, Words | Leave a comment

MERRY. TO MOVE ON OR TO TARRY?

Posted on December 25, 2016 by elainedanforth

Merry– a reason good to tarry. . . feel the presence and the love of blood, and of people whom and into whom you or they have married. But is the road to love them, nudge them not to stay … Continue reading →

Posted in Holidays, Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Winter | Tagged Christmas, Fear, Feeling, Love, Merry, Reaching out, Relationships, Risk, Transformation | Leave a comment

TO SOLVE A PROBLEM

Posted on December 23, 2016 by elainedanforth

If you want to solve a problem, and other people are involved, you’d best go bearing olive branch straight to the one, or, if there’s more, to the whole bunch (yes, all of ’em), and then, involve ’em. For, be … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Hunch, Involvement, Launch, Olive branch, Problem solving, Reaching out, Reasoning, Ship, Solution, Solving | Leave a comment

THE CROSSING

Posted on December 21, 2016 by elainedanforth

Near tears. No not near. There. A leap of faith I now no longer need to take. It’s took. I’ve breached the breadth of one said stream– what looked a river, despite my spine-chill-prompted shiver, was but a brook. Thank … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems | Tagged Breach, Brook, Crossing, Earth, Father, Fear, Feeling, Heaven, Leap of faith, Mother, Opening, Path, Reaching out, River, Sadness, Tears | Leave a comment

WHEN YOU CANNOT STOMACH LIFE

Posted on November 12, 2016 by elainedanforth

When the world seems unkind, and you feel there is no way to stomach life, it’s time another path to find, and apply, (so you absorb), some organs of a different sort– See with keen, but soft, kind eyes, discern … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Body Mind, Completion, Daring, Deeds, Discern, Exact, Guide, Heart, Internal organs, Life, Mind, Path, Reaching out, Stomach, Wise | Leave a comment

STRETCH OUT A LITTLE HAND

Posted on September 21, 2016 by elainedanforth

At every opportunity Stretch out a little hand… For you know not how soon may be the consequent egress of doubt from the heart that feels it on the other end, beating in some woman, child or man.

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Dispelling doubt, Heart, Offering a hand, Reaching out, Reassurance | Leave a comment

FROM THE CENTRIFUGE TO THE HORN-TOOTING JINGLE

Posted on May 25, 2016 by elainedanforth

Taking refuge in the centrifuge. To submit to be thus whirled out of center, out into the world, to mix and mingle, just as a house to maintain warmth needs both its inner hearth and outer layer of shingles. . … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Boundaries, Feeling, Freedom, Limits, Movement, Reaching out, Thought, Transformation, Warmth | Leave a comment