Tag Archives: Shine

THE SHINE IN EVERY LIFE

Posted on January 25, 2017 by elainedanforth

Into every single life there comes a little shine, even when things don’t feel right. . . Be deeply still allow your darkness and your emptiness your whole and vasty mind to fill, for they are needed for the light. … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Darkness, Emptiness, Fill, Life, Light, Shine | Leave a comment

FOR ANY FURTHER JOURNEY

Posted on October 3, 2015 by elainedanforth

Shine of sun begins in morning, day one. . . Invite it in . . . Breathe the breath of air just before your nose– right now. Right here. For, no matter where you’ve been before, forget– don’t fret!– that … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Breath, Future, Journey, Life, Morning, Past, Present moment, Shine, Square one, Sun, Time | Leave a comment

CHEWING FOR THE LONG HAUL

Posted on March 3, 2015 by elainedanforth

Chewing for the long haul. . . Refrain from stewing over slips from good intentions that your habits and your stray desires have you doing– though you chew with all your wherewithal. . . Let go the strain of worries … Continue reading →

Posted in CHEWING, Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Thoughts on Macrobiotics | Tagged Add up, Alive, All, Appreciation, Better, Bite, Bright, Chewing, Confidence, Dawn, Day, Desires, Determination, Dew, Don't give up, Dreams, Drink it up, Drops, Enough, Feeling, Flowers, Graceful, Green, Gusto, Habits, Hope, Insprie, Lawn, Leaf, Life, Liquify, Long haul, Meant, Mind Body, Morning, Night, Others, Perseverence, Petal, Practice, Pulverize, Receiving, Satisfaction, Share, Shine, Slips, Slowly, Sparkle, Sparkling, Stem, Stewing, Stray, Strength, Surely, Swallowed, Thought, Time, Together, Want, Wherewithal, Wide, Wondrous, World | 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

WAVES AT HIGH TIDE

Posted on October 28, 2014 by elainedanforth

Waves at high tide. . . they rise and rush– not only soaking sands of beach but rudely slapping towering walls of rocks, which are shoring up the beach’s other side. . . it’s quite a ride. . . and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Prayer, Thoughts on Macrobiotics | Tagged All at once, Balanced, Beach, Briny, Caress, Earth, Feeling, Glad, Heart, High Tide, Inseparable, Land, Life preserved, Living Heart, Loud, Mind Body, Need, Ocean, Pellucid, Poetry, Pride, Quiet, Rise, Rocks, Rudely, Rush, Sand, Saved, Sea plants, Seaweed, Shine, Shore, Slapping, Stems, Thought, Walking, Waves, Ways, What makes you tick, Yielding | 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

NOW COMES THE MORN

Posted on April 28, 2014 by elainedanforth

Now comes the morn. . . the sun, ashine. . . If only I do ope mine eyes and take it in, I see it. . .

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Acceptance, Appreciation, Day, Mind Body, Morning, Opening, Poetry, Quick Reads, Receiving, Satisfaction, Seeing, Shine, Sky, Sun | Leave a comment

LIFE IS DELICIOUS

Posted on April 19, 2014 by elainedanforth

Life is delicious. . . sorrow, joy pleasure, pain earth’s interpose to block moon’s beam. . . thus bereft reflected sun, how red it seem! communion, service– passion. . . scarcity and surplus– righteous action begs to billow like a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Ache, Billow, Choice, Cloth, Communion, Earth, Eclipse, Fake, Feeling, Gusts, Interpost, Laughter, Mind Body, Moon, Overflow, Pain, Passion, Peal, Pleasure, Puffy, Quake, Real, Red, Righteousness, Sails, Service, Shine, Smiles, Sorrow, Sun, Thought, Wind, Woe | Leave a comment

UGH! GIVE ME A LITTLE DUCT TAPE OR A PLUG!

Posted on April 12, 2014 by elainedanforth

UGH! repair a leak or any thing that doesn’t work with a little duct tape or a makeshift plug. . . yes, it’s a lot like the adaged age-old chore of sweeping dirt under age-old adaged rug. . . but … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Adage, Age-old, Compromise, Contact, Deft, Duct tape, Feeling, Fix, Flow, Life, Life flow, Mind Body, Opening, Opinion, Plug, Repair, Shine, Solution, Sweeping dirt under the rug, Troubleshooting, Ugh, Union, Wholeness | Leave a comment

SPRING SO SHARP

Posted on March 17, 2014 by elainedanforth

Spring. . . so green. . . so sharp. . . so fresh. . . it comes up strong the grass grows tall, as its green blood flows and rises to he call, through keen-edged blades that shine back much … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Seasons, Spring | Tagged Awakening, Blades, Blood, Climbing, Comfort Zone, Core, Cut, Different, Feet, Flex, Fresh, Grass, Green, Groove, Hairpin, Hoarding, Keenness, Love, Mile, Movement, Normal, Right Left, Rising, Self, Sharp, Shine, Sluggish, Smile, Spill, Spring, Stagnation, Stream, Strength, Style, Sun, Swelling, Taking Sun, The Call, Turned on its head, Turns, Untapped Stores, Upward, Walk, Wholeness, Year | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Shine

THE SHINE IN EVERY LIFE

FOR ANY FURTHER JOURNEY

PRAYER TO BE THE GENTLE LAYER OF MY OPINION

WAVES AT HIGH TIDE

ELUSIVE IS THE ROAD

NOW COMES THE MORN

LIFE IS DELICIOUS

UGH! GIVE ME A LITTLE DUCT TAPE OR A PLUG!

SPRING SO SHARP

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