Tag Archives: Waiting

AMPERSAND (revised)

Posted on July 5, 2021 by elainedanforth

Toes edge toward the abyss,knees bendshoulders swing, and energy infinite contractswith countless other actions– a billion nervous fiberstwitching past all power ofeven first-rate Pulitzer describers. . . The scariness that appears. . . the chosen necklace choking,underlying the bold daring-ness,it … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Courage, Fear, Leap of faith, Nervous, Waiting | Leave a comment

TO WAIT

Posted on March 30, 2018 by elainedanforth

To wait upon is not the same as, in the grander scheme, to serve. But, to serve anyone or anything, one must have power to wait. To change your rhythm, or perhaps sometimes, stop in your tracks, no matter how … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Breath, Guidance, Gut, Head, Heart, Life Dreams, Love, Mind Body, Service, Waiting | Leave a comment

WHEN YOU PLANT A LITTLE SEED

Posted on February 8, 2017 by elainedanforth

When you plant a little seed, there is no knowing of the plan for what it will grow up to be. But, plant it, feed it give it water, light and love, wait for the rain, keep watch through drought … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Drought, Light, Love, Nature, Planting a seed, Rain, Tending, Waiting, Water | Leave a comment

ONCE YOU GET STARTED

Posted on December 6, 2016 by elainedanforth

Drop the hesitation. . . Quit the tortured, stuck kvetch. . . And enter in your fluid process of creation– Dare let go the “How? How? How?”. . . Take one deep breath, inner centering, to allow, Think, “Ready, Set. … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Uncategorized | Tagged Action, Close, Creation, Ease, Far, Fear, Feeling, Here and now, Hesitation, How, Kvetch, Now, Path, Tomorrow, Waiting, Wanting, Within reach, Yesterday | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Autumn, Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Seasons, Winter | Tagged Breather, Ease, Fall Leaves, Plans, Rain, Tension, Waiting, Waiting for the other shoe to drop | Leave a comment

HE LIKES ME, HE LIKES ME NOT

Posted on August 2, 2016 by elainedanforth

He Likes me. . . He Likes me not. . . He Likes me. . . If memory serves, what once was done +++++with wistful plucks +++++of soft, white daisy petals +++++from their sunny, yellow middle, +++++to wind suspense +++++from … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry | Tagged Daisy, Flower, He loves me-- he loves me not, Liking, Patience, Thumbs up, Waiting, Wishing | Leave a comment

THE GAPE

Posted on July 23, 2015 by elainedanforth

When the pressure’s on and has been on for long and you fathom no escape. . . It’s time to open up your jaw and yell for help. . . And wait… And meanwhile, seek and heed the call, even … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry | Tagged Appreciation, Awe, Breathing, Chasm, Confidence, Cooperation, Deeds, Escape, Future, Gape, Healing, Help, Legacy, Mind Body, Nadir, Ordeal, Peak, Proliferate, Reaching out, Satisfaction, Seeing, Strength, Time, Transformation, Waiting, Warmth | Leave a comment

UPLOADING THE FUTURE

Posted on June 25, 2014 by elainedanforth

The future takes one heck of a long time to download– I might as well, then, venture out, and seek it, feel, it hear it, smell it, touch it, see it– find out what it’s all about. . . and … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Thoughts on Macrobiotics | Tagged Assured, Determination, Download, Feel, Feeling, Fragrance, Fruit, Future, Hear, Hope, Love, Make a difference, Opening, Participate, Path, Peace, Poetry, Purpose, Reaching out, Rise to the time, See, Seek, Senses, Smell, Taste, Ten Thousandfold, Thought, Time is ripe, True, Upload, Venture out, Waiting, Walking | Leave a comment

THE SEED OF LIFE

Posted on June 20, 2013 by elainedanforth

Just how does one live? So elementary seems the take. . . sometimes too easy to forget the give, forget the letting go. . . But what and when to give and take, and from where, from whom? And I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged Beginning, Confidence, Discovery, Give and take, Growth, Life, Patience, Seed, Waiting, Watching | 3 Comments

SPRING-CLEAN

Posted on February 12, 2013 by elainedanforth

Lonely. . . Pain injecting into brain. . . Upset +++++in belly, +++++throat to gut– +++++a glut, +++++an onslaught +++++fraught with fear +++++and desperation. . . Only +++++to lie in wait– +++++the lowly +++++inaction +++++I can take– +++++and in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Seasons, Spring | Tagged Ablution, Belly, Brain, Confidence, Faith, Fear, Glut, Gut, Inaction, Kindness, Loneliness, Mind Body, Pain, Poetry, Re-ordering, Spring, Spring Cleaning, Thought, Waiting | Leave a comment