Soul Searching

March 15, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: All is One, Creative writing, Interconnectedness, New Zealand, Poetry, questions, SoCS, Soul, Stream of Consciousness, World's future, Writing Challenge, Writing prompt 11 Comments

Photo: Inbar Asif

Would you sell your soul

To sorrow?

Would you reap

Hate’s awful gain?

Would you let go of

Tomorrow

So false power

Rise again?

Will your heart see

All humanity?

What will you allow,

Sustain?

Will your soles

Feed earth

Or hollow

Out it’s wealth

To drain?

Will you leave

Your soul abandoned?

Will you let your spirit

Die?

Or will you hold on

To the morrow

In a world

For you

And I?

For the SoCS prompt: Soul/sole

At The Gate

March 14, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Bangkok, Black and White, CB&W, Creative writing, Gate, Guards, History, Life Lessons, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Thailand 6 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

For the gate from the old

Must stand guard

Not by sword

But to hold

Off the passage of years

So the lessons of past

May find ways to

Be cast.

For Cee’s Black &White Photo Challenge: Fences and Gates

Five Years Ago

March 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Memoriam, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: Anniversary, care, Carol Hornig, friendship, healing, In memoriam, Loss, Love you more, Soul path, Unconditional 6 Comments

Carol Hornig: Much loved, deeply missed

Five years ago today

You passed on

Into effervescent light,

Boundless love,

And joyful belly laughs.

It is no wonder, for

You have lived light, even

Through deep pain.

You have breathed

Unconditional

Love

And nourished all you’d met

Along your path.

You have gifted us all with your

Laughter,

Your glorious heart.

You are now

One

With it all,

In the place your soul

Must have always known

As home.

Neck Of The Not So Woods

March 11, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Bell towel, Blue sky, City life, Daily life, Interconnectedness, Lens-Artists, Neighborhood, New York City, Photo Challenge, Poetry, winter Leave a comment

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

The birds spiral

‘Round the spire

And the bells peal

Half and whole,

As the sky paints blue

Horizons

In a neighborhood

For all.

For the Lens-Artist Challenge: Around the neighborhood

Saving Daylight

March 10, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Beach, Calm, cycle of life, Daylight, Holding on, Ko Samui, Meditation, Sunday Stills, Sunset, Thailand, Twilight, Weekly Photo Challenge 8 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Cherish every moment

Left

Of light as

Suns will set.

Hold on to the

Deep rewards

Of daylight breathed

Through soul,

And saved.

For Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge: Daylight Hours

Living Wild

March 3, 2019March 3, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Capra nubiana, Desert, Habitat, Israel, Negev, Nubian Ibex, Photo prompt, Photography, Poetry, Spiky, Sunday Stills, Wildlife 10 Comments

Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev

You have come to my

Backyard,

To my desert,

My home.

So why look

So surprised

To see me coming

Along?

Trivia:

Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) are desert-dwelling goat species that are found in mountainous areas of North Africa and the Middle East. The wild population is considered “vulnerable” and is estimated at only 1,200 individuals. Nubian ibexes stand around 65–75 cm (2.1–2.6 ft) tall at the shoulder and weigh around 50 kilograms (110 lb). They live in rough dry mountainous terrain and are a light tan color, with a white underbelly. Males also have a dark brown stripe down the back. Nubian ibexes have long thin horns which extend up and then backwards and down. In males these reach around about 1 meter (~ 1 yard) in length while in females they are much smaller and reach around 30 cm (~ 1 foot).

For Terri’s Sunday Still challenge: Wildlife

For Becky’s Spiky Squares challenge (even though this is not strictly a square …)