Tag Archives: Time

AWAKE, EMBARKING ON A BRAND NEW WEEK

Posted on September 29, 2024 by elainedanforth

Awake. To a brand new week. Stock to take,plans to make, Sunshine to let in. . . Joy andsteadfast commitmentto oneselfas make sensein the flow. Grief and regretto notice, love, and to let go,allowing,though not demandingthat they departor even lessen. … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Day, Life, Time, Week | Leave a comment

BEING WINTER, WEATHERING SUMMER

Posted on July 10, 2024 by elainedanforth

Being winterand weatheringthe blue and brightand sometimes flatteningheat of summer, flanked byand the temperate streaksamid the rapid changeof birthing, burgeoning springand crisply shriveling, dying fall. . . And though that turn of year descendingcan prove reflective and relaxingand brings me … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Poetry, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Winter | Tagged Change, Life, Time | Leave a comment

THURSDAY THOROUGHLY

Posted on November 17, 2023 by elainedanforth

Do Thursday thoroughlythrough thick and thin. Feel freer, as if you could flyon Friday, Climb the ladderon a Saturdayto such a heightthat vistas open up. . . and you can seeskies open there,so wide and brightwhere the new week does … Continue reading →

Posted in Days of the Week, Poetry | Tagged Freedom, Time | Leave a comment

NEVER A MOMENT WITH NOTHING TO SAY

Posted on September 4, 2020 by elainedanforth

There’s never reallysuch a dull momentor a daythat I haveabsolutelynothingto say. But it’d be sillyand furthermore,beyond even meto blurt out every momentor yea,even everylivelong special and precious day, for,if I’d use every momentsomething to say,not all that I’d utterwould contain … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Big Ben, Breath, Expression, Mind Body, Moment, Peace, Quiet, Speech, Stillness, Time, Writing | Leave a comment

THIS GUY AT MY SIDE

Posted on November 22, 2018 by elainedanforth

I am so glad I have this guy on my, at my side. Yeah, sometimes he bugs me so, so much– I just go nuts! And even though at times I want to make myself quite scarce, I never really … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Appreciation, Emotions, Gladness, Growth, Love, Oneness, Relationships, Time, Tripping the light fantastic | Leave a comment

THE BLUES OF BEEPS AND BELLS

Posted on September 1, 2018 by elainedanforth

Beeps and bells, beeps and bells. . . They sound and ring, unforgiving, saying, “You’ve no more time to do this thing!” Against yourself it is a crime to saunter past the limit line, and fail to heed the plaintiff … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Beeps, Bells, Choice, Discernment, Honor, Needs, Scheduling, The blues, Time, Timers, Wants | Leave a comment

LIFE CAN’T BE TRAPPED IN A BOTTLE

Posted on August 2, 2018 by elainedanforth

Sometimes it needs to be said (or at least thought) that life can’t be trapped in a bottle and kept for admiring, like those little ships people build, that will stay ever there to fuel dreams and egos in deep … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Brilliance, Capture, Dreams, Fire, Life, Ship in a bottle, Thought, Time | Leave a comment

I AM ME

Posted on July 11, 2018 by elainedanforth

I am me. The only person I can be. That is OK– I’m really meant to be exactly as I am– yes, just this way. This is now. In the past, there was a “then,” I grow bits different every … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Change, Connections, Future, Identity, Life, Looking back, Looking forward, Past, People, Present, Self, Self-Knowledge, Time | Leave a comment

JUNE FIREWORKS SOUND

Posted on June 17, 2018 by elainedanforth

Fireworks sound warm fog air veils the stars. . . Modest the length of the near-solstice night, when measured in hours. . . Then, like Ben Franklin, the June sun is early to rise at its dawn, and then arcs … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Summer | Tagged Benjamin Frnaklin, Dawn, Day, Early to rise, Fireworks, June, Night, Solstice, Stars, Time | 5 Comments

LIFE SWALLOWED WHOLE

Posted on May 26, 2018 by elainedanforth

Best not to go hasty and gulp things whole. . . No rest. . . No flow, when you’re tempted and think tasty to scarf stuff down and attempt like so, to learn, get done, produce, create, or nurture, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged All at once, Day, Eating, Feeling, Gentleness, Life, Play, Sleeping, Thought, Time, Work | Leave a comment