Tag Archives: Touch

TAKE YOUR LITTLE HAND

Posted on September 21, 2022 by elainedanforth

Take your little hand, bedecked withwarmingor with ornamental, dressyglove, or simply bare,as at your birth,with its complement of palm and fingers. . . and reach,with one therefromto softly,soft as can be,touchsome other onewho craves and needsthe very kind of touch … Continue reading →

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THE DISSECTION OF IMPERFECTION

Posted on October 10, 2017 by elainedanforth

Inefficient imperfections. . . Missions impossible: should you chance to choose accept them, perform some clean but yet not mean dissections. . . The tasks cannot be done for, thus to cutcau you cannot just remove the single thing which … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Approval, Blessing, Choice, Complementarity, Consideration, Contemplation, Gratitude, Health, Imperfection, Love, Medicine, Prayer, Technology, Thought, Touch, Understanding | Leave a comment

ALL HANDS TOGETHER

Posted on September 17, 2017 by elainedanforth

Hands together. . . Yours to mine, Mine to mine, Yours to yours. . . We touch our hands in twos, in threes, in little groups, in crowds, in scores. . . we breathe we drink the water accept caress … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Prayer, Uncategorized | Tagged Air, Breathing, Darkness, Day, Holding hands, Light, Prayer, Rest, Shade, Sunshine, Touch, Water | Leave a comment

WHAT DO YOU WANT THIS DAY TO BE?

Posted on April 13, 2016 by elainedanforth

What do you want this day to be? Look quick, inside! With your mind’s eye!– Survey the different views. . . Don’t think (too much) don’t make it wrong– the things you see you deeply want to do, or have, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Seasons, Spring | Tagged Action, Be, Day, Do, Have, Mind Body, Moment, Seeing, Today, Tomorrow, Touch, Vision | Leave a comment

WHEN YOU THINK YOU’RE RUNNING DRY

Posted on November 11, 2014 by elainedanforth

even when you think you’re running dry, and yet, step out, look up– You just might find the water and the power deep inside is all you need for one big reach that lets you touch the sky.

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Appreciation, Big, Confidence, Determination, Dry, Fear, Feeling, Look up, Mind Body, Need, Power, Quick Reads, Reach, Reaching out, Seeing, Sky, Step out, Thought, Touch, Walking, Water | Leave a comment

YOUR LIFE LINE

Posted on August 12, 2014 by elainedanforth

There come some times where you need the touch, the sight of your life line, to help you know you’ve got a chance to scale the coming precipice you’ve got to climb.

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Chance, Future, Life line, Precipice, Scale, Seeing, Task ahead, Times, Touch | Leave a comment

TALK, TOUCH, LISTEN

Posted on March 13, 2014 by elainedanforth

Talk. . . Touch. . . Pause. Listen. . . Allow that moment of contact so much to glisten. . . without comment no cognitions to assist foment– Just F-E-E-L. . . and wait a stretch. . . the fullness … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Allow, Appreciation, Cognition, Confidence, Contact, Determination, Earth, Feeling, Foment, Glisten, Heart, Hope, http://promisingpoetsparkinglot.blogspot.com/2011/12/perfect-poet-award-week-57.html, Letting Go, Life, Listen, Little Bird, Little bit, Mind Body, Moment, Opening, Patience, Pause, Peace, Poetry, Purity\, Quiet, Reaching out, Receiving, Satisfaction, Softening, Speed, Surrender, Talk, Temptation, Thought, Touch | Leave a comment

HEALING IN TOUCH

Posted on February 27, 2014 by elainedanforth

When it hurts to touch and be touched. . . it’s hard to approach and find help in easy (or just any) ++++++++++reach that will help much. . . That’s the time to still +++++the mind, +++++its streaming speech to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Confidence, Healing, Hope, Mind, Mind Body, Reaching out, Receiving, Stillness, Touch | Leave a comment

THE CRUX OF HOW WE STAY UPRIGHT

Posted on October 14, 2013 by elainedanforth

Our touch, our hands upstretched to heaven and out to others here on earth: the crux of how we stay upright and walk our way of life until we’re ripe for our next birth. . . passed through in solemnity … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Quick reads | Tagged Birth, Earth, Hands, Heaven, Life, Mirth, Modicum, Poetry, Quick Reads, Reaching out, Solemnity, Touch | Leave a comment

THE REACH OF MY HEART AND MY FINGERS

Posted on July 29, 2013 by elainedanforth

I reach– I can touch so many of you. .. and be touched, entering into a village of plenty, filled with so many unseen anybodies. . . though the wi-fi waves have such vast lengths of air, earth and sea … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Appreciation, Confidence, Distance, Earth, Feeling, Heart, Internet, Mind Body, Plenty, Poetry, Quick Reads, Reach, Reaching out, Receiving, Satisfaction, Touch, village, Wi-fi | Leave a comment