Route To Kaput

June 26, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Be a voice, Current affairs, History, humanity, Leadership, MerriamWebster, Morality, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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Photo: Pinterest, Carrie Miles

Olden times come to rise

Where the heartless devise

Righteousness to brutalize

Those they dehumanize.

An unwise move, time shows

For a smart person knows

That even one group maligned

Cracks open fault lines

In a stroke that would put

A reign on path to kaput.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 26, 2018:

Kaput

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Amortize

June 25, 2018June 26, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Bullying, Current affairs, History, Human Rights, MerriamWebster, Racism, Value, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay, WWII Leave a comment

never again poland

Allow persons in power

To amortize the legitimacy of those

They term ‘others,’

And the weak will fall behind them,

Eager to believe themselves

More worthy

Than most.

They’d be wrong, of course, for

They are not.

Because none who are truly strong

And deserving of honor

Would ever devalue others

Nor would they sit back as

Inhumanity

Takes hold.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 25, 2018:

Amortize

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Effigial Critique

June 24, 2018June 24, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Current affairs, Dictator, History, Human Rights, Tryanny, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

(Photo: Jodi Hill for Sports Illustrated)

If it’s fame that you seek

Know how history speaks

Of tyranny’s recognition

Turning infamy

And

Effigial critique.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 24, 2018:

Effigy

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Time Travel

June 24, 2018June 24, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: COB, History, Odd, Out of place, Photo Challenge, Photography, Timeless, Transportation, Vienna 4 Comments

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Out of place

Out of time

As the half-hour

Chimes

Periods bend

And history glides

In past with present

Side by side.

For Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge

Coniston Choice

June 23, 2018June 23, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: Coniston Water, Flash Fiction, Lake district, life-change, New Beginnings, Short Story, travel, United Kingdom, What Pegman Saw 15 Comments

Photo: www.lakedistrict.gov.uk

She shrugged her macintosh off to use as ground cover before lowering herself gingerly. She drove two hours to get here and her hip still protested anything less cushioned than her bed, let alone damp gravel. Still, walking in the fresh air was good for her, the doctor said.

Didn’t say where she had to do that walking, and Norm was no longer around to object. He’d been terrified of flying, worried about trains, sea-sick on boats, wary around cars. Poor Norm. She couldn’t blame him. Not after what he’d gone through during the war.

Made for dreary holidays, though.

Not anymore.

She gazed at the lake, took a deep breath, and pulled the folded papers out of her pocket: The unsigned bill of sale for the house; the travel agent’s brochure for the round-the-world ticket.

For What Pegman Saw: Coniston Water Lake District

History’s Layers

June 23, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Good stuff!, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Ancient, History, Israel, Layers, Photo Challenge, Photography, Timeless, WitsEndChallenge Leave a comment

Photo: Amitai Asif

Layered rock

Cracks and rifts

Blackened hearths

Tribes adrift

Weight of time

Overhead

Stories told

But not dead.

For Wits End Photo Challenge

Skirl a Tune

June 23, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Bagpipes, Highlands, Landscapes, MerriamWebster, Music, Nature, Poem, Scotland, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 3 Comments

gray green and yellow rock and grass field

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

Skirl a tune

Blow the pipes

Upon Highlands’

Tall banks.

Through deep lochs

And rocky lakes

May beauty keep

Your soul awake.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 23, 2018:

Skirl

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Shuttered Way

June 22, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: CWW, Gardy-loo, History, Just for fun, Old, Paved, Photo Challenge, Photography, Road, Stone paths, Story 4 Comments

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Old way down stony hill

Many shutters hold still.

Do aged walls

Yet recall

What in past time rang through:

“Gardez l’eau, Gardez l’eau…”?

For Cee’s Which Way Challenge

Notorious

June 22, 2018June 23, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Professional Development, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: attachment, Child Development, Communication, Essential, MerriamWebster, Posttraumatic Stress, Relationships, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 3 Comments

Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev

When you know how stress

Rewires

Little ones’ brains

To lifelong pain,

You mark yourself ever

Notorious

When you cruelly

Add

To their wounding

Day and again.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 22, 2018:

Notorious

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