Bereft Of Hope

August 5, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Be a voice, better future, Current affairs, hope, MerriamWebster, Resist, Sorrow, Speak up, Vote, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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If you feel bereft of hope

In view of those who lead

Not by honor

But deceit;

Hold on to the voice of people

Rising

To relieve

Those who cherish false and greed

From the path of harm

They have conceived.

Be strong

Even as you are now

Understandably

Bereaved.

For there will be better days

Ahead

Where heart

Over current swamp,

Succeeds.

Merriam-Webster’s word for August 5, 2018:

Bereft

This post continues the blogging challenge in which Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, serves as inspiration a-la the “Daily Prompt.”

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Blue Lass

August 5, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Blue, Bridge, Europe, Evening, Lens-Artists, Old and New, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Twilight 8 Comments

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Does she yet

In the tower

Await

For the draw

Of a knight

In the simmering

Light,

Or do blue

Evenings

Now pass

Inked by

No pining

Lass?

For the Lens-Artists photo challenge: Blue

Flipper Friends

August 5, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Quotes, Reflections, Writing Tags: delight, Dolphins, friendship, Fun, Just for fun, Nature, Photo Challenge, Photography, Playfulness, Sunday Stills 7 Comments

Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev

There is nothing more lovely

Than riding in pair

Over waves

Under skies

Skimming high

Fins in air.

For the Sunday Stills photo challenge: Friend

Rawson Rise

August 4, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: Canada, Cancer, caregiving, Flash Fiction, Grief, healing, hope, Illness, Nature, Respite, Short Story, WhatPegmanSaw 30 Comments

Rawson Lake; photo: Jack Ng

It was their last day by the lake. The weather was perfect and the air was so crisp it squeaked. She inhaled deeply, savoring every moment. By that time tomorrow she’d be stuck in rush-hour traffic.

“See?” he pointed. “Even wood can’t keep its head above water at some point.”

She snuck a hand into his and squeezed. She wished she could give him sips of this place during what was to come. She wished she could tell him this round wouldn’t be as difficult as the ones before. That this one would work. She didn’t know if to hope or fear it being the last. It shattered her that she no longer knew what he hoped for.

She gathered the light around her, kissed his baldness, and rose to stand.

“For now, my love, let’s float.”

For What Pegman Saw: Rawson Lake Canada

Bottle Dance

August 3, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Be in the moment, Briefly, Dance, Illusion, Just for fun, Perspective, Photo Challenge, Rhyme, Silly, WitsEndChallenge 8 Comments

Photo: Atara Katz

If you come atop such

Bottled up

Glass

Be sure to not

Pass

Such opportune

Moment

For an impromptu

Dance class.

For the Wits End Photo Challenge: Illusions

Un-Pacified

August 3, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Be a voice, Bullying, Cruelty, Current affairs, Exploitation, MerriamWebster, Propaganda, Racism, Speak up, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 3 Comments

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One cannot pacify hatred

By fueling more hate,

Just as violence will not be calmed

Via harming.

Arguments aren’t settled

When truths are shut up,

Nor can peace be made by

The war-glorifying.

There is no equality

While oppression is sought

And brutality cannot

Bring on healing.

So rallies where ‘greatness’

Is clothed in cruel acts

Breed not power nor awe

But disdain,

As leadership’s hubris is paid

By the vulnerable

Again and again.

Merriam-Webster’s word for August 3, 2018:

Pacify

This post continues the blogging challenge in which Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, serves as inspiration a-la the “Daily Prompt.”

For more visibility, tag your post with #WordOfDayNY, so your post can be searchable.

“Follow” me if you want to receive future prompts, or just pop in when you’re looking for inspiration. Here’s to the fun of writing and our ever-evolving blogging community!

Not All Is Lost

August 3, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: 100WordChallenge, compassion, Creative, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Home, Homelessness, Nesting, Practical solutions, Safety, Short Story 19 Comments

They were always getting blown out of their homes. She couldn’t stand it. She knew how it felt to be homeless, especially for a youngling. And she’d seen the devastation of parents who’d returned to find some force had swept their babies off to unknown and worse places. She knew about being lost.

She was going to stop it.

At least for them.

Surely if she built it, they will come.

She kept checking and almost despaired, but one morning … there they were.

“Welcome home,” she whispered to the first eggs laid.

For Friday Fictioneers, August 3, 2018