Tag Archives: Sense

SILENCE– WORDLESS SENSE, TRUE SENSE

Posted on March 31, 2022 by elainedanforth

Silence. . . wordless sense–true sense– not one that isabsurdist– but as trueand targetedand broad,in such awaythat the fieldquite satisfyinglyexcitingly, and safely covers, a quiet sensethat knows just what it wants, from dawn to dusk,through night,and dusk to dawn, and … Continue reading →

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ACCEPT THE MENDING TIME AND SPACE

Posted on September 1, 2018 by elainedanforth

When things get so cramped or so expanded, find a way that you can spread them out or else, embrace them, into a spacing that will mend. . . accept the mending, and resulting calm and understanding. . . breathe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Contraction, Cramped, Day, Embrace, Expansion, Expression, Feeling, Growth, Mending, Sense, Spread out, Thought, Understanding | Leave a comment

THAT CLEARING IN THE FOREST

Posted on June 23, 2018 by elainedanforth

My world grows oh so big, and I feel small, though now the physical equivalent of of a wild tree grown full and strong and tall. . . The forest grows within itself a brightly sunlit clearing. It draws my … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Body Mind, Clearing, Forest, Heart, Journey, Light, LIstening, Sense, Senses | Leave a comment

PEOPLE MAKING SENSE

Posted on December 7, 2017 by elainedanforth

People. Making sense. Making nonsense. Making sense out of nonsense. Nonsense out of sense. Nonsense out of nonsense. . . and when we’re really really lucky, at our best, we’re making sense out of somewhere hidden sense. When we make … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged At our best, Enjoy, Grieve, Hidden, Lucky, Nonsense, Opportunity, People, Sense | Leave a comment

A MIRACULOUS, IMPERFECT DAY

Posted on June 8, 2016 by elainedanforth

Whew! What a day! S’wonderful. . . s’marvelous, that it be there for me. Sweet and swooshy. Had to swoosh all over the place, and be really good to myself, to the imperfect degree I know how. Time to celebrate … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Appointments, Breath, Connected, Day, Disappointments, Imperfection, Joint, Miracles, Quirks, Sense, Status, Tension | Leave a comment

SENSE SPRINGING FORTH FROM NONSENSE

Posted on April 16, 2015 by elainedanforth

Sense may arise from nonsense, just as order, out of chaos. . . Though the nonsense and the chaos so dismay us. . . for they loom in fearsome size, with pointed beady eyes hovering in windy skies in such … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Spring | Tagged Albatross, Chaos, Life, Lighting, Nonsense, Sea, Sense | Leave a comment

“ALLOW ME”

Posted on January 13, 2015 by elainedanforth

“Allow me…”: Something someone says to you, in kindness, and in offer of a service of real value… simple, free. .. So, when you plead it to you yourself, think well about your heart’s true needs– not just relieve of … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged "Allow me", Better, Breaking, Chance, Chance upon, Deep, Felt, Fleeting, Free, Freed, Happiness, Health, Heart, Kindness, Lasting, Ne'er, Needs, Offer, Plead, Satisfaction, Sense, Service, Shackles, Simple, Stride, Think, Thought, Toward, Urgency, Value, Way, Wend, Wide, Yourself | Leave a comment

PRAYER TO BE THE GENTLE LAYER OF MY OPINION

Posted on December 6, 2014 by elainedanforth

Oh, God, please help me hold– and still hold forth– my strong opinions. . . in all humility. . . and with respect, and an attentive ear and heart to those who differ with me, with a sense of purpose, … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Attentive, Be, Continuity, Countless, Define, Differ, Ear, Extract, Feeling, Finite, Flow, Gentle, Grains, Heart, Hold Forth, Humility, Infinite, Jointly, Layer, Light, Moons, Opinion, Others, Ours, Perpetuity, Poetry, Purpose, Reaching out, Respect, Sand, Sense, Service, Shine, Smooth, Stars, Thine, Throughout, Thy, Time, Ubiquitous, Wonderous, Worlds | Leave a comment

WALK-COMPLISHED

Posted on July 16, 2014 by elainedanforth

Two arms, two legs: swinging motion of those locomotion pegs. . . Two eyes, two ears, One skin, one nose– to God be praise! I feel and sense the pine, the bush, the air, the sun, the beauty of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Air, Appreciation, Arms, Beauty, Body Parts, Bush, Chance, Courage, Dance, Dare, Day, Determination, Ears, Eyes, Feeling, Fleetest steps, Flower, God, Legs, Life, Mind Body, Muster, Nose, Opening, Pine, Poetry, Praise, Re-ignite, Rose, Sense, Skin, Stars, Strength, Summer, Sun, Tree | Leave a comment

OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE’S ARROWS

Posted on February 1, 2014 by elainedanforth

To do or not to do? Sometimes omission and the better part of valor are the arms whose aims are true. Other times, the motion and the action are what’s best for you. And as for scansion and for rhyme, … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Action, Beat to the punch, Better part of valor, Clue, Decision, Guess, Motion, Omission, Outrageous Fortune, Prediction, Rhyme, Scansion, Sense | Leave a comment