Tag Archives: Tension

GOD, PEACE!

Posted on April 5, 2018 by elainedanforth

God, peace!. . . Please, give me peace! The voices, the choices, the one who belittles, the Benzes, pliés, Rolls Royces. . . The people, the cries, and the chimes from the steeple, blown away the wrong way in the … Continue reading →

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IN RES MEDIAS

Posted on March 30, 2017 by elainedanforth

In Res Medias. . . Release that tension in your face and slake the grip that wants to hold some unseen weight, and has done so since some bygone, unremembered date, encrypted in the diamond twist of that oh too … Continue reading →

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SLOW FOX

Posted on February 23, 2017 by elainedanforth

Quick quick quick, get it done, have no fun, let the tension get real thick. . . Oh God! Oh No! That’s the way will make me sick. Quick quick, yes, but add some slow– quick quick slow quick quick … Continue reading →

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WAITING FOR THAT LAST FALL LEAF TO DROP

Posted on October 19, 2016 by elainedanforth

Waiting for that last fall leaf– like waiting for the other shoe to drop. . . In some ways, it provides relief but grows the stresses, as your life’s long ride progresses to the new, an untrod realm where you … Continue reading →

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BE AWESOME, FOR YOU ARE

Posted on October 3, 2016 by elainedanforth

Be awesome. And then be held in honest, humble awe as one would feel before some mighty tree, which, prudent, for the good of all, is felled, with swift, sad whacks of clean-edged axe or the loud and buzzing gnawing … Continue reading →

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WRINGING OUT THE DIFFERENT DRUMMER

Posted on June 18, 2016 by elainedanforth

If you wring your hands and tense your wrists because you feel you’re doing “it” all wrong, There is a chance the thing you grapple with, for you, does not feel real, and you can choose to drop that thing, … Continue reading →

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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 →

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LISTEN TO YOUR BODY

Posted on January 6, 2015 by elainedanforth

Listen to your body– it will tell you what you need. . . Of course you could go on just trying hard, and persist to strain your brain, But if, instead, you only would just quiet, sit, and, slow, unclench … Continue reading →

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