Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
When some try to
Evoke
Vile contempt
Foul report,
There is much more
At stake
Than a furious
Retort.
Don’t fall prey
To miasmas of
Hate and closed minds.
Do not let lower standards
Become somehow enshrined.
Call it out.
Name it loud.
But refuse the dishonorable
As normed or allowed.
Choose to level
Above.
Give a hand.
Hold on tight.
To a firm
Higher ground.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
In the weathered rock
Old hands of time still tick away the measured strokes
Of chisels
Embedding prayers
And faith
Into the stone.
Aged but clear
The corner breathes centuries
Of memory and hope
Of light and lore
And much too much
War.
Photo: Ofir Asif
Carve beauty
Out of woe.
Hew purpose
From the rough.
Sculpt meaning
To make good enough
What wasn’t
And yet
Somehow was
All you could
Know.
Carve beauty
Out of woe.
Find you
Inside
The flow.
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Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
When resolve wobbles,
When your heart
Worries at
Goals
And your fingers
Forget
Their own
Flow –
Recall how
Every wave
Oscillates
To and fro,
How
The ocean
Itself
Undulates
Onto each
Remote
Shore.
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Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Be brilliantly
Kind.
Seek radiant
Empathy.
Hone skillful
Gentleness.
Define luminous
Compassion.
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Photo: Inbar Asif
In the echoing
Hearts
Of the gnawing
Alone
There blooms
Hope
For the day
They’re
No longer
Forlorn.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
Funnel light
Into your heart.
Feed hope
Right
Through
The tightest
Narrows.
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Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Irresistible
To poke a stick
In
Prepossessing
Pond of mud
There is little
More delightful
Than puddle frolic
To be had.
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Photo: Inbar Asif
He didn’t want to have his dinner.
Only dessert.
“I’m kind of allergic to the salad,” he proclaimed.
“And the stew?”
“That, too.”
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Photo: E.K.
Don’t forget:
You can do
All that needs
Follow through,
You can breathe
Life anew
As you hold
To what’s true
For your
Viable you.
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