Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Light stretches
On this day
To hold a hope
For those beset
By darkness.
May golden rays
Wrap hugs
Around the tears
At a world’s
Tipping point.
Solstice Supplication
Month: June 2018
Vanquish Voracity
Photo: Ofir Asif
May the eager seek the good
More than they crave
The rush of
Harming.
May the powerful remember
How no honor lies
In deliberately
Alarming.
Let satiety be reached
Not by cruelty
But with love.
So that children can sleep safely
In the arms of those
They love.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 21, 2018:
Voracity
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Sea Squill Sentry
Sea Squill ; Photo: Atara Katz
Standing sentry ‘afore
Greenery finds a path
It heralds end of summer
As dry days’
Aftermath.
Rising tall
It dares bloom
When most others will not,
Drawing water with roots
That reach deeper
Than most.
Fun facts: The Sea Squill (Urginea Maritimia) has large bulbs that average 8 inches (20 centimeters) across, and strong roots that reach depths of 14 feet (4 meters) below ground, and can snake their way into narrow cracks in rocks, widening the cracks and ‘hueing’ through the rock to get to moisture. The roots are so difficult to dislodge that ancient farmers would plant rows of Sea Squill at the edges of their fields and those were considered a permanent boundary marker. The flowering spears of the plant reach up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) in height and carry 200-300 flowers. Many parts of the plant are poisonous but the bulb also holds medicinal qualities similar to digoxin.
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Market Day
PHOTO PROMPT © Fatima Fakier Deria
“Where is that boy?” Hassan demanded.
“I sent your son to your father,” Um-Ali responded from below.
Her voice was calm in the way that often enraged him. As if she’s talking to a baby, he fumed.
“What were you thinking?!” he exploded. “You know I need him on market day!”
“I know you need help on market day,” she stated. “I called Mustafa.”
Her brother. Lord of bossy annoyance. Hassan glowered at his wife.
She chuckled. “You look exactly as Ali had this morning when he thought he’d have to go with you.”
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers June-22-2018
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Balmy Times
Photo: Amitai Asif
May the scorch of
Arid hearts
And blazing sun,
Make way for kinder, saner
Passage
To lead humanity through
Balmy times.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 20, 2018:
Balmy
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New To You
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
There it is
The first one,
Breaking through
Your sore gum.
Yet you smile
Wide and true:
Budding tooth
New to you.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge
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Horizontal Manners
Photo: Inbar Asif
Polite tree
Clearing branches
Away from the path,
To let climbers pass by
For a one-sided
Hug.
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Do Not Quail
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
When powerful
Pound podiums
With rabid lies
To sow mistrust,
Don’t falter
From the facts
Of what is wrong
And what is right.
Don’t quail before
Deep cruelty
That shreds your heart
To cries.
Step forth
For those who have no voice,
Be brave
And mobilize.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 19, 2018:
Quail
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Cookie Share
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“Now it’s my turn to ask you a question,” she said. “And you have to answer.”
“Fair enough,” I smiled. After all, I’d just subjected this child to a long list of questions to which she had to respond.
“What if,” she began, twinkle-eyed, “you had only one cookie, but you needed to share it with fifty kids?”
“Hmm …” I pondered. “That’s a tough one. One cookie only?”
“Yep!” She raised her eyebrows in satisfaction at what had to be my stupefied expression.
“Can I hand out something else instead?” I bargained.
“Nope. One cookie, fifty kids.” The eight-year-old was utterly too pleased with herself.
I smelled a rat but I wasn’t going to show it. She’d earned this after soldiering on through the difficult portions of the testing battery. “I give up.” I raised my hands in surrender. “I don’t see how I can split one cookie between fifty kids.”
“I never said how big the cookie had to be, did I?” she chortled. “If you have a gigantic humongous cookie it would be easy peasy to have everyone share it!”
For Cee’s Share Your World June-18-2018
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Jabberwocky
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
If the spoot
Got your boot
And the ptuk
Stole your truck,
It is time to call
A glonky
To clean up
This jabberwocky.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 18, 2018:
Jabberwocky
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