Tag Archives: Year

HERE COMES THE RAIN, SO DANCE AND SING

Posted on November 16, 2017 by elainedanforth

Here comes the rain again. Therefore, get out, stand forth, And, like Gene Kelly, dance and sing, and spread your laughter and your joyful smiles for miles, to sweep round east and west and south and north, the marks of … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Uncategorized, Winter | Tagged Dance, Fresh, Outdoors, Rain, SIng, Start, Year | Leave a comment

PAIN: THE BUMMER AND THE UP-AND-COMER

Posted on June 19, 2017 by elainedanforth

Pain. It’s hard to name it anything except a bummer. But, you wish you will be worth your self and name. . . Therefore, you let the fact of how it hurts become your friend to teach you better means … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Bummer, Cycles, Design, Fire, Flowers, Friend, Fruit, Life, Love, Pain, Seasons, Summer, Teacher, Transformation, Unwinding, Winter, Year | 1 Comment

THE SPIRIT OF SPRING

Posted on April 5, 2017 by elainedanforth

The spirit of spring has asserted itself. The splendid canopy of summer is now our striving up-and-comer, rising up to reach as high as this good year will ever swell. Sun climbs, blooms of alls sorts on grasses, bushes, trees … Continue reading →

Posted in Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Spring, Summer | Tagged Air, Assert, Blood, Change of season, Enjoyment, Flowers, Heart, Looking, Lungs, Mountains, Seeing, Snow, Spirit, Storms, Sun, Trees, Undertow, Wonder, Year | 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

WONDERFUL FALL

Posted on October 21, 2016 by elainedanforth

Think of wonders. . . graceful light, memories that elicit tears, warm feelings, and delight. . . sun slung in a much lower cant, than when nearer summer solstice our days ran. . . ambient power supporting purging all those … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Winter | Tagged Blossoms, Colors, Cycles, Fall Leaves, Feeling, Leaves, Purging old stuff, Senses, Solstice, Sun, Trees, Wonders, Year | Leave a comment

LOVE SENT BY LIGHT SCANT

Posted on November 29, 2015 by elainedanforth

Love sent to the Universe, as our current globe stance drinks in light scant, from sun’s low curve slant– not much there to disburse– our world grows ever darker as the power of the year unfurls to its nadir, whence … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Winter | Tagged Autumn, Change, Cycles, Darkness, Light, Seasons, Winter, Winter Solstice, Year | Leave a comment

GREETINGS IN THE GOLDEN LIGHT

Posted on November 5, 2015 by elainedanforth

May you all bask in the golden light of autumn, A turn within for deep reflection is our season’s task, while visible activity and growth creep e’er more slow, as the level of our current year’s last energy slinks down … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Poetry, Seasons, Uncategorized, Winter | Tagged Activity, Golden, Life, Light, Reflection, Slowing, Stillness, Year | Leave a comment

LEARNING FROM LIGHT LIMITS

Posted on September 13, 2015 by elainedanforth

Grab your September sun! While it’s still high in the sky, and the time’s still ripe to get some. For soon, the time will belong a little more to the moon. And more than that– for several moons, before the … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, Medium Length Poems, Poetry, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Winter | Tagged Cycles, Darkness, Gratitude, Learning, Light, Moon, September, Sun, Year | 3 Comments

THE COLOR OF A SOFT GRAY DAY

Posted on January 27, 2015 by elainedanforth

A soft gray day, late January. . . the pale sun, the ambiance so airy breathe life and light to spring’s small blooms, and gentle pop of squirrel peep, plus bubbling fresh birdsong. . . the clear, cool warmth, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetic Musing (Longer Poems), Poetry, Prayer, Seasons, Spring, Winter | Tagged Accompanied, Airy, Alone, Ambiance, Ashes, Bare, Beauty, Birds, Birdsong, Black, Blooms, Burst, Challenge, Clear, Comfortable, Confidence, Cool, Day, Diary, Digress, Distance, Earth, Ere, Eyelashes, Fear, Feeling, First, Flowers, Gentle, Good, Gray, Gray Sky, Hair, High, Hilly, HInt, History, Hope, Horizons, Image, Important, January, Journey, Leaves, Life, Light, Love, Mind Body, Mingled, Movie House, Mush, Muted, Neighborhood, New, New horizons, Pale, Peace, Peep, Pop, Quiet, RIght, Rising, Road, Save up, Seasons, Secret, Sky, Slope, Slow, Spirit, Splendor Colors, Spring, Squint, Squirrel, Sun, Thirst, Tour, Trees, Unwritten, Up, Vantage point, Walking, Warmth, Wash, White, Winter, Year | Leave a comment

FEELING THE PULL OF THE MOON

Posted on April 16, 2014 by elainedanforth

It’s two thousand fourteen, and I’m feeling the pull of the moon– with its bright and full shine, so compelling. . . and a little bit frightening as if something’s conspiring or there’s some hidden witch, waving wand, with bone-bumped … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged 2014, Alignment, Appreciation, Earth, Eclipses, Fear, Magic, Seeing, Sky, Spells, Sun, Thought, WItch, Year | Leave a comment