Tag Archives: Seasons

PAIN: THE BUMMER AND THE UP-AND-COMER

Posted on June 19, 2017 by elainedanforth

Pain. It’s hard to name it anything except a bummer. But, you wish you will be worth your self and name. . . Therefore, you let the fact of how it hurts become your friend to teach you better means … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Bummer, Cycles, Design, Fire, Flowers, Friend, Fruit, Life, Love, Pain, Seasons, Summer, Teacher, Transformation, Unwinding, Winter, Year | 1 Comment

TREE POSE

Posted on October 27, 2016 by elainedanforth

Fall moves strong, a downward swing– I find the way, much like a tree, still to stand , arms stretched like sturdy branches, persevering, to do all that I need to do to live my life, through all my losses, … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Poetry, Seasons, Uncategorized, Winter | Tagged Bravery, Change, Life, Loss, Perseverance, Rain, Seasons, Tree, Weather, Wind | Leave a comment

BREATHE, PEACE, POWER

Posted on February 21, 2016 by elainedanforth

Breathe. . . slough off the stress. . . accept whatever hint of peace you can accept, let go the grip you have on pain, so you can cease to seethe, forget the fearsome, sad and angry tales you tell … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Seasons, Spring, Winter | Tagged Breathe, Confidence, Feeling, Glow, Ice, Light, Mind Body, Peace, Plants, Power, Rain, River, Seasons, Seeing, Sky, Snow, Stream, Trees, Weather, Wind, Winter | Leave a comment

RELAXING WINTER’S GRIP

Posted on January 7, 2016 by elainedanforth

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, deep winter blues loose the worst grip of their clenched talons, as slow unwinds this first week of the year– a wet, dark, low and floating balance, Last day of this first line … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Prayer, Seasons, Spring, Winter | Tagged Belief, Blues, Endure, Faith, Grace, Hope, Love, Luck, Opening, Seasons, Walking, Winter, Winter Solstice | Leave a comment

YELLOW CLOUDS SO HIGH, SO BRIGHT

Posted on December 4, 2015 by elainedanforth

Yellow clouds so high so bright, as old year cedes to lengthening shrouds, and day segues to broad cloak of starry skies of slow-expanding night. . . For now the reign of sun speeds its way down– but, at our … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Autumn, Clouds, Seasons, Sky, Sun, Winter, Wintering | Leave a comment

THE SWEETEST SUN OF WINTER

Posted on December 2, 2015 by elainedanforth

There’s nothing so sweet as our sun’s dawn on days of the year when night grows very long– except maybe the following bright morning through the golden afternoon, or the final glimpse of of red daylight when sunset comes around, … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Winter | Tagged Afternoon, Darkness, Dawn, Day, Flowers, Heart, Light, Mornng, Seasons, Sun, Sunset, Sweetness, Winter | Leave a comment

LOVE SENT BY LIGHT SCANT

Posted on November 29, 2015 by elainedanforth

Love sent to the Universe, as our current globe stance drinks in light scant, from sun’s low curve slant– not much there to disburse– our world grows ever darker as the power of the year unfurls to its nadir, whence … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Winter | Tagged Autumn, Change, Cycles, Darkness, Light, Seasons, Winter, Winter Solstice, Year | Leave a comment

THE LIGHT OF DAY

Posted on November 24, 2015 by elainedanforth

Yes, you can remain within, and curse the darkness, well before the black rain storm or the night begins. on days like these, with their dim, oblique-hung sun, which, if it shines at all, does so intermittently, in stingy sparseness, … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Autumn, Darkness, Daylight, Gray Sky, Indoors, Outdoors, Seasons, Sun, Time, Walking, Winter | Leave a comment

QUICK TRIP TO THE ARCHIVES (of The Danforth Anchor)

Posted on November 10, 2015 by elainedanforth

A really Quick Poem. Written in the Quickening Season, two years ago. Revisited today, because I remembered the title while on my WET walk. In the Slowing Season. Similar, and yet completely different. WALK ACCOMPLISHED

Posted in Autumn, Links to Archived Posts, Seasons, Spring | Tagged Autumn, Seasons, Spring, Walking | Leave a comment

COOL HOT DAY LUNCH

Posted on July 29, 2015 by elainedanforth

Good hot day lunch– cool zaru soba! that I made– YUM! It would be cool if I could make another one, good enough to ask you over. . . even if you’d have to come from Timbuktu or Manitoba.

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Quick reads, Seasons, Summer | Tagged Cooking, Creativity, Feeling, Food, Hospitality, Invitation, Mind Body, Opening, Purpose, Reaching out, Receiving, Satisfaction, Seasons, Summer | Leave a comment