
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Evening comes.
Sun slides down
Child at play
Lapping light
Close at hand:
Summertime.
For the Weekly Photo Challenge: Summertime

Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Evening comes.
Sun slides down
Child at play
Lapping light
Close at hand:
Summertime.
For the Weekly Photo Challenge: Summertime

Photo: Jaime Michelle
Every year it shrinks back
Every year it grows less
Till too soon
It will be
But a memory
Unless.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Absent

Original Photo: Amitai Asif
The broken ice
In shards
Of glass,
Pierces to melt
A pond’s
Cold heart.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
She would learn everything about it, she promised herself, and details will no longer catch her unaware. The books soldiered on, and she with them. By closing-time she was educated and heartbroken: She knew what it was. She knew it was incurable.
For Three Line Tales, week 135
“You can come with me,” she insisted.
“Mazie,” I sighed. “You’re old enough to know not to take Gramma’s stories literally.”
The seven-year-old shrugged, and the new pixie cut she’d insisted on and which took away the curls I so adored, glinted in the light.
She glanced at the dilapidated building, then at me. Her face was inscrutable. Was she hesitant or exasperated? Perhaps both?
The moment stretched.
“Gramma’s right,” she sputtered. “You’re too stubborn for your own good.”
And she stepped through the mirror, onto grass, and disappeared into the shack.
For Friday Fictioneers: August 31 2018

Ang Thong, Thailand (Photo: Na’ama Yehuda)
Emerald
Amidst the
Limestone cliffs:
Tha-le Nai,
The inland sea,
A turquoise gift.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Teal, aqua, seafoam, turquoise

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Head up high
Glint in eye
Naga guards
Path to sky
Lest passers by
Go awry.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: lift

Photo: Adi Rozen-Zvi
When chores call
Not all heed
Timeless work,
Patience’s creed.
Restless fingers
Supersede
Newer vistas
To be keyed.

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
In the cradle of life
Where all breathing
Begins
Rocks the ebb
Of all else
That we are
Deep within.
For the Sunday Stills Challenge: Water

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
One does not need a plan
To get lost
In this new town
She thought
Right before
She did.
For The Weekend Writing Prompt: Haphazard
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