Tag Archives: Sadness

YES, YOU CAN SING

Posted on September 5, 2018 by elainedanforth

Yes, you can sing of what you do and what comes to you that feels blue, and absolutely wrong. . . But, do that only, and you’ll draw out the sad, afraid and mad and lonely. . . It may … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Anger, Choice, Fear, Feelings, Focus, Joy, Loneliness, Music, Sadness, Song | Leave a comment

DANG! LIFE CAN BE SO GOOD!

Posted on April 10, 2018 by elainedanforth

Dang! Life can be so good, when you let go all of the ways you know it can be bad. There was, after all, ages ago, the first soul who ever sang, a certain kind of silence forever out to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Anger, Fear, Happiness, Letting Go, Life is good, Light, Possibilities, Rising out of the ashes, Sadness, Satisfaction, Seeing, SInging | 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

THE SILENT CHATTER IN THE CLUTTER

Posted on October 23, 2016 by elainedanforth

When sadness, fear and anger a few years long (or even longer) don’t get felt or heard or said, and then get heaped with clutter, instead, they will just lie there, burièd, seeming tacit, but, in every act that some … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Anger, Clearing space, Clutter, Fear, Feeling, Frozen needs, Journey, Life, Pain, Sadness, Self-sabotage, Space, Spring Cleaning, Stuffed feelings, Suppressed feelings, Unmet needs | Leave a comment

A DROP IN THE BUCKET BEGINS

Posted on October 8, 2016 by elainedanforth

Drop in the bucket. . . Tear +++++tear ++++++++++tear +++++++++++++++drop. The twinkle inside +++++that wants me to crumble, ++++++++++dissemble, +++++++++++++++burst, ++++++++++++++++++++die– +++++++++++++++++++++++++down to flop. It seems now +++++a very rough +++++wrinkle I ride– the firm-under-me ground comes crashing all down, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged A drop in the bucket, Confidant, Crying, Flow, Grieving, Letting Go, Loss, Sadness, Shoulder to cry on, Tears | Leave a comment

YOUR FEELING OF ABUNDANCE– LET THAT ABOUND

Posted on July 28, 2016 by elainedanforth

Where and when you feel abundance, let that abound. . . But, where and when you feel scarcity, just notice it can be quite fierce, but, make it scarce, with due alacrity– don’t let it get you down. . . … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Abundance, Anger, Eyes, Fear, Feelings, Heart, Hope, Light, Love, Mind, Posterity, Sadness, Scarcity, Seeing | Leave a comment

DADDY DADDY DADDY DADDY DADDY

Posted on June 19, 2016 by elainedanforth

Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy Daddy you left so soon– I was not ready. . . I felt alone. . . the love you gave to me, I missed so much. . . the wonder ways you had to teach and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Appreciation, Crying, Daddy, Father, Grief, Loss, Love, Memory, Miss you, Remembrance, Sadness | Leave a comment

STEPPING INTO A SEA CHANGE

Posted on June 15, 2016 by elainedanforth

Stepping onto stones to ford a stream you would not dream of crossing, stoneless, all alone. . . Bravely, then, you do proceed, although they are not firmly cobbled, and some slip, are mossy; others wobble, which makes you want … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Angery, Change, Fear, Feeling, Grieving, River, Sadness, Sea, Stepping stones | Leave a comment

THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE

Posted on February 12, 2016 by elainedanforth

From a painful hole, an empty, sad and lonely place, can enter vision’s sight and soul, and that sorry, said same hole can be the gateway for admission of a heretofore often knocking at the door, but thwarted, blocked from … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prayer, Quick reads, Uncategorized | Tagged Acceptance, Admission, Being, Blocked, Emptiness, Entry, Feeling, Grace, Hole, Pain, Sadness, Seeing, Soul, The eye of a needle, Vision | Leave a comment

REPETITION: DEVOTION AND EROSION

Posted on January 22, 2016 by elainedanforth

Repetition– some things it builds up, for others it causes dirt and neurons off to slough– a slow and painful self-destruct, which, if relentlessly partook, may lead to total demolition. But even there, as over sad cheeks so many a … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems | Tagged Build, Demolition, Grow, Happy, Repetition, Sadness | Leave a comment