Tag Archives: Sky

SEVEN COLORS

Posted on September 22, 2024 by elainedanforth

The hot red core of rocky earth, the blood,the dust,the mud,the flesh,the bone,the thrashing firebrightly shone. . The daylight dawningthrough translucent orange,black-framed windowed wingof monarch butterfly, The yellow petalsspoked fromdarker, tasty, seedy centerof late summer sunflower, The green of pointy, … Continue reading →

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DARE. . . BUT BE INTELLIGENT ABOUT IT

Posted on February 18, 2019 by elainedanforth

Dare. But be intelligent about it. . . When faced with the likes of a proud and wounded elephant, best not to fight it, shout it, or blithely to ignore it’s there. Respect it, greet it, give it space, and … Continue reading →

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GRAY SATURDAY GREETING

Posted on June 9, 2018 by elainedanforth

Happy Saturday! Here now gray. AND hoping, wishing plenty sun upon me, and you, and EVERYONE!

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SMALL OUTDOORS WITH FOG WHITE SKY

Posted on May 3, 2018 by elainedanforth

Glancing at the small outdoors with fog white sky and wavering leaves on spindly and on sturdy trees, and on bud-ready rose bush through my window, past which I note a whisper of a breeze with my wishful indoors-toward-the-outdoors thoughtful … Continue reading →

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QUICKIE, SHORTY POEM

Posted on March 2, 2018 by elainedanforth

Quickie, shorty, speak-y easy. . . whip some words up to go with your post-noon or evening cup, cafe or tea-sy. . . So to do, I tap ten fingers, and ten toes, a little cold, now warm at keys, … Continue reading →

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GOD IN GROSS, IN FINE

Posted on February 10, 2018 by elainedanforth

God in gross, in fine, in all the things you want the most in the biggest heavy load heaped upon your form so high you nearly sure you’ll lose your mind. There, In space hid twixt all the kinds of … Continue reading →

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STAY WITH ME, YOU THING CALLED LOVE

Posted on January 24, 2018 by elainedanforth

Hold steady. you all-inclusive, into my smaller self intrusive, crucial thing called love, Stay with me until I clearly feel and see I can be taller, weller, and of my goodness more profusive, to live at last a life that … Continue reading →

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ESCAPE VELOCITY IS HIGH

Posted on May 6, 2017 by elainedanforth

Escape velocity is high. . . We’re bound to gravitas, our weighty planet, made of water, mud and rock and moss, in such a way that is what is– we did not plan it . . We can build a … Continue reading →

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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE

Posted on February 13, 2017 by elainedanforth

Love, love, love, morning, noon and night. . . the earth, +++++the sea, the sun-lit, +++++star-lit, ++++++++++endless sky. . . The plans, +++++the methods how +++++and good, clear reasons why. . . All the thirteens +++++and the sevens. . . … Continue reading →

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LIFE SIGNS LOW, TIDE HIGH

Posted on January 28, 2017 by elainedanforth

Life signs low. But tide is high. Seagulls guard their new and stagnant bay-filled lake, a crater in the cool beach sand. Sandpipers flit at water’s edge and sit, and flap and peck and talk in wait. Hell’s here with … Continue reading →

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