Tag Archives: Soul

AN EYE FOR AN EYE– A PRICE QUITE HIGH

Posted on December 2, 2016 by elainedanforth

Eye for an eye. An arm and a leg. Price very high. But, higher still to have good enough aim to build for oneself a good oeuvre, which serves many others, and is a sound hut (eschewing the allure of … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Arm and a leg, Buying, Dig in your heels, Eye for an eye, Heart, Life, Oeuvre, Soul, Worth, Your all | Leave a comment

IMAGINATION AND THE HANDY DANDY WIDGET

Posted on November 28, 2016 by elainedanforth

Imagine it. Immerse you in the magic of it. See it. That must come first. Though the notion it were possible should seem to you preposterous, That same audacity in fact is the prerequisite for you to actually smell and … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Audacity, Boldness, Confidence, Feeling, Fingers, Illusory, Imagination, Life, Possible, Seeing, Senses, Soul, Vision, Widget | Leave a comment

JUST BE THERE

Posted on November 19, 2016 by elainedanforth

Just be there. . . This stickly moment seems to you, as you are in it, so mucked up that it’s hard as it can get, even if the muck is really very far from infinite. . . But, if … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Being, Breathe, Choice, Destiny, Dream, Life, Life form, Love, Manifest, Memory, Mind Body, Mindfulness, Moment, Presence, Seeing, Soul, Voice, Wonder | Leave a comment

BE WHATEVER AGE YOU ARE

Posted on November 11, 2016 by elainedanforth

Be whatever age you are. Each merits its own joy and pain; its crawls, its steps, its leaps its ease its strain. . . At each natural pinnacle and erected fortress turret, a different mode and mood you move to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Age, Be yourself, Change, Crawling, Experience, Feelings, Gradual, Incarnation, Joy, Layers, Leap, Magical, Pain, Personal development, Plain, Progress, Soul, Star, Tiers, Time, Walking | Leave a comment

WEEKEND AWAKENING WELL WISHES

Posted on November 5, 2016 by elainedanforth

Here’s wishing you all a wide weekend awakening– May you feel strong and tall, may your parts, one and all, that feel wizened or dead grow back wise and whole, when you breathe and make way for their destined next … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Awakening, Breathe, Dead, MInd-Body, Quickening, Soul, Strong, Tall, Weekend, Well-wishes, Wholeness | Leave a comment

THE LIGHT OF YOUR EXCELLENCE

Posted on November 2, 2016 by elainedanforth

The year’s life moves fast along, in apparent descendence. . . Your light proves, when you show it, to emit perfect excellence. . . Your might you don’t lose– though you don’t always know it– when you don’t permit all … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Seasons, Winter | Tagged Body, Bounty, Brilliance, Excellent, Golden, Light, Mind, Perfection, Self, Soul, True, Year | Leave a comment

SUNDAY– A DAY TO LIVE– IT’S NOW

Posted on July 31, 2016 by elainedanforth

Sunday. . . It’s chill. . . it’s peaceful. . . it is fun– a day to live– it’s now. . . twixt dawn this morn and set this eve– right now. . . if we would pick a day … Continue reading →

Posted in Days of the Week, Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Body, Dawn, Day, Evening, Heart, Hourglass, Life, Morning, Opportunity, Sands of time, Soul, Sun, Sunday, Sunset, Surrender, Time | Leave a comment

OLD, COLD, BOLD WOMAN

Posted on July 13, 2016 by elainedanforth

Old woman. . . Cold woman. . . Needs to be bold but tail too oft twixt legs gets curled, hiding secrets of the soul that so need to be peeled away like the layers of an onion. . . … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Boldness, Coldness, Hope, Music, Old age, Old woman, Secrets, Soul, Woman | Leave a comment

IF THERE IS A GOD

Posted on July 2, 2016 by elainedanforth

If there is a God, then let her be my witness, and let her testify about the how’s, the wherefore’s, and the why’s, and the simple fact of my existence, and let her speak to those unknowing, who just wait, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Prayer | Tagged Being seen, Cue, Determination, Divine feminine, Endless, Entry, Finite, God, God be my witness, Guts, Heart, Power, Purpose, Seek, She god, Soul, Witness | Leave a comment

FROM CRAZY-MAKING TO THE SIREN CALL OF HEART

Posted on June 12, 2016 by elainedanforth

When crazy-making sees its heyday, so helpful on any kind of hazy breaking, later baking Saturday, let those intermittent winds sweep you off to the farmers’ market, for there, you know it’s possible to take all your insanity straight to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems) | Tagged Body Mind, Farmers' Market, Food, Heart, Produce, Saturday, Soul, Trek | Leave a comment