Tag Archives: Road

LOW GEAR IS WHERE YOU GO

Posted on January 20, 2017 by elainedanforth

Low gear. It’s where you go when you know a hill is near. It helps you climb, or, when descending, bide your time, to make it safe and easier (though the road is steep and rough and ever-bending), for you … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Bicycle, Breathe, Climb, Descend, Destination, Driving, Fast, Low gear, Road, Safety, Steer, Upped chances | Leave a comment

GETTING TRACTION

Posted on June 25, 2015 by elainedanforth

beginning. . . getting traction. . . the first two steps on your road to all the rest, including winning back the ground long since slipped from your control– though for eons yet untold was it a part of you, … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Action, Concept, Coup, God, Grace, Ground, Life, Peace, Process, Road, Satisfaction, Steps, Time, Traction, Walking, Winning | Leave a comment

PAIN NO GAIN

Posted on April 3, 2015 by elainedanforth

Pain is NO gain. . . nor does it name you to any Hall of Fame– at least to none on Earth that be at all humane, and which have for you and humankind your lasting basic worth in mind– … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Again, Astray, Bent, Best bet, Bet, Better, Direction, Earth, Equal, Feel, Feeling Good, Future, Gain, Gaps, Good, Hall of Fame, Help, Humaine, Identify, Know, Lasting, Mind, Name, Need, Pain, Reach Benefit, Road, Show, Straight, Teach, True, Tune in, Understand, Way, Whatever, World, Worth, You | Leave a comment

THE COLOR OF A SOFT GRAY DAY

Posted on January 27, 2015 by elainedanforth

A soft gray day, late January. . . the pale sun, the ambiance so airy breathe life and light to spring’s small blooms, and gentle pop of squirrel peep, plus bubbling fresh birdsong. . . the clear, cool warmth, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Prayer, Seasons, Spring, Winter | Tagged Accompanied, Airy, Alone, Ambiance, Ashes, Bare, Beauty, Birds, Birdsong, Black, Blooms, Burst, Challenge, Clear, Comfortable, Confidence, Cool, Day, Diary, Digress, Distance, Earth, Ere, Eyelashes, Fear, Feeling, First, Flowers, Gentle, Good, Gray, Gray Sky, Hair, High, Hilly, HInt, History, Hope, Horizons, Image, Important, January, Journey, Leaves, Life, Light, Love, Mind Body, Mingled, Movie House, Mush, Muted, Neighborhood, New, New horizons, Pale, Peace, Peep, Pop, Quiet, RIght, Rising, Road, Save up, Seasons, Secret, Sky, Slope, Slow, Spirit, Splendor Colors, Spring, Squint, Squirrel, Sun, Thirst, Tour, Trees, Unwritten, Up, Vantage point, Walking, Warmth, Wash, White, Winter, Year | Leave a comment

THE PERFECTION INTERSECTION

Posted on June 24, 2014 by elainedanforth

the sole worth of the notion of perfection lies in the place where it with road of life makes intersection. . . perhaps more often so not so much through action but in looking how things have gone and how … Continue reading →

Posted in Quick reads | Tagged Acceptance, Appreciation, Feeling, Intersection, Life, Light, Mind Body, Opening, Path, Perfection, Place, Poetry, Quick Reads, Reflection, Road | Leave a comment

ELUSIVE IS THE ROAD

Posted on May 16, 2014 by elainedanforth

Elusive is the road. . . at times it winds sharp turns– pointed, sheltered, lean. . . at others, open, broad, exposed alike to whipping wind and gentle rain to bitter snow and warmest sun. . . the suppleness to … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Summer, Winter | Tagged Alone, Broad, Clear, Elusive, Fear, Feeling, Fellowship, Lean, Life, Open, Poetry, Rain, RIde, Road, Satisfaction, Seasons, Seeing, Sheltered, Shine, Sun, Suppleness, Thought, Time, Tread, Warmth, Wind, WInding road, Winter | Leave a comment

WRINGING IN (AND OUT) THE SPRING

Posted on March 11, 2014 by elainedanforth

Spring time the through-the-wringer time the core-dry tree, the core-dry me seek to muster up the sun within amid the fluttery bluster that sends see-through blossom petals into the air, and forth a floating way before they settle and make … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prayer, Spring, Summer | Tagged Blossom, Bluster, Confidence, Core, Dry, Floating, Flowers, Fluttery, Hope, Life, Love, Petals, Poetry, Road, Summer, Through the wringer, Tree | Leave a comment

GOING UNDER TILL THE MURKINESS IS OVER

Posted on December 5, 2013 by elainedanforth

Strength, Hope, Life. . . feeling there, I am not quite. . . with my eyes thus stretched big, open wide, so much enters in my periscope, Forward I roam in this dim deep submarine and strive to cut a … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Confidence, Darkness, Direction, Hope, Life, Light, Mind Body, Opening, Outlook, Path, Poetry, Prayer, Purpose, Road, Seeing, Strength, Thought | Leave a comment

LIFE FINE AND COARSE

Posted on October 2, 2013 by elainedanforth

Life is a road of refinement and one of treading more coarse. . . breaking free from our age old confinement without letting go the foundation of the paths we’ve already walked, where flowed strong and free our life force.

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Confinement, Freedom, Life, Life Force, Path, Quick Reads, Refinement, Road, Treading, Walking | Leave a comment

DEER CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS

Posted on March 2, 2013 by elainedanforth

Frozen in the face of deathly threat– A deer, in dark midroad by speeding, head-lit cars beset– about as fearful as it gets. . . Or what about those ill-timed cats who sprint for center street and looming harm of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cat, Deer, Fear, Fight or Flight, Fight-Flight-Freeze, Mud, Poetry, Puddles, Road, Street, Thought | 2 Comments