Photo: Amitai Asif
Do not be fooled to think
That clouds combed
Into neat white lines
Mean that the artful skies
Have suddenly
Turned tame.
For The Daily Post
Tidy, Not Tame
Anecdotes of Life
Sea of Sand
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Hand in hand
Up they go
Mom and child
Scaling sand
Readying for
Slide-down fun.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge
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Believe
Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
Believe we can.
Believe we will.
Believe the way is there
Still,
To achieve.
Believe good lasts.
Believe hearts care.
Believe compassion
Matters,
Everywhere.
For The Daily Post
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Outer Surface
Photo: Atara Katz
As the surface of the water
Licks the surface of the sky
The depths of both
Stay hidden
Under aquamarine alibis.
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The Bewitching Hour
Photo: Inbar Asif
Bathed in magic purple light turned pink turned orange-gold,
Along the banks of river swam since days of old,
A raft of mama-ducks leisure their ducklings home.
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Three Line Tale: Opener
The stage is set to hushed repose
Incipient characters rush forth
Turn simmering muse to full on prose.
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Want to join in the Three Line Tales fun? Here’s how:
You’ll find full guidelines on the TLT page – here’s the tl;dr:
- Write three lines inspired by the photo prompt (& give them a title if possible).
- Link back to this post (& check the link shows up under the weekly post).
- Tag your post with 3LineTales (so everyone can find you in the Reader).
- Read and comment on other TLT participants’ lines.
- Have fun.
Happy three-lining!
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Accommodating
Photo: Cuba, Inbar Asif
My immediate association to today’s word prompt of “Elastic ” was about the dire need for more flexibility. How important it is we be able to curl our mind around the bend of preconception so we can appreciate beyond “our idea of beautiful” or “our opinion of correctness.” It’s become fashionable to be rigidly unyielding, to confront instead of listen, to seek conformity instead of be accommodating.
As if acceptability lives by a single yardstick and Photoshop.
We cover over imperfections. We discard or deny any marring exists. We seek the shiny new. People get judged more by their circumstance of birth than by how pliable their hearts are or how truly resilient they have proven to be in holding on to kindness even in the face of oh-so-much that wasn’t.
As I wrote this a notification appeared for Steve McCurry’s post about the “Art of Imperfection” and the power of Wabi-Sabi — the Japanese practice of finding harmony and beauty in what is simple, natural, and modest, where transience and imperfection are part of the aesthetic. How perfectly apt.
Here’s to beauty in the marred.
For The Daily Post
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World Genius
Photo: Amitai Asif
There’s a brilliance
To the cosmos
That shines brighter than
All stars.
An artistry
To nature’s glory
That far exceeds anything
I can actually
Understand.
For The Daily Post
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Walkabout
Photo: Amitai Asif
In the monotonous pace of desert hikes, there lies a meditative calm: as wispy trails rise and descend, as footpaths curl around a bend, as dirt turns palettes of light and shade, as layers pressed in rock clutch eras so long gone, they are quite literally written in stone.
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Voguish
Photo: Narcissus
It may be fashionable to be unkind,
To dismiss civility as weak
And see polite discourse
As reflecting ‘snowflake’ fragility.
One wonders, though,
About the price of bullish ways
On our children
Who are learning
Not what we say
But what we model.
Will they grow to celebrate insult
As denoting power,
And be enthused
By pseudo-charm;
Or will they see
The true resilience of empathy
So hate and war
Can finally be
Disarmed?
For The Daily Post
Na'ama Yehuda 
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