Photo: Ofir Asif
In most wretched times
When wrongdoers invade
Do not yourself turn
Echo chamber for knaves.
For the blight
Of untruth
And the stain
Of disdain
Can quite easily infect
Those who would not
Take heed from similar
To abstain.
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Photo: Inbar Asif
We may be called,
And especially
In times of turmoil,
To bestow
More light
Than woe.
It may be necessary
To bequeath
To awe
Over righteousness.
To confer,
With our own footsteps,
The high road
Not the low.
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Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
Partake in all that
Fills your heart
And makes your spirit
Sing.
In all that makes
This world
Your home
And offers
Hope
To bring.
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Photo: Pinterest
As the gavel rises
To speak justice
Let the rule of law
Preside,
So not even an executive
Who feels they own
The rights for pride,
Can by claims of faux and fury
Dismiss
What they would rather hide,
When truth well knows
By sheer behavior
Schemes and snide,
That he had far too often
Lied
And it is past time he be
Tried.
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Photo: 1940-50 Philadelphia Phillies Patch
(Dedicated with a hug to a little dude in a mood … )
You fret
You toss
You turn
You snooze.
You pray your team
Won’t ever
Lose.
You wake up
Early
Hear the news.
You shout
You cry
You read reviews.
Time for some
Pancakes
To sweeten
Blues …
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Photo: Atara Katz
Flowers burst
From the ground
Green shoots sprout
All around
Birds a-chirp
Trills abound
As Spring is finally
Inbound.
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Photo: Ofir Asif
Let us deplete
The harm
The hate
So more room’s left
To tolerate
The differences
We may create
As we attempt
To integrate
Beliefs well overdue
Update.
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Photo: Toni Hadi
Even in chaos
Where foul mouths and ill deeds offer little beyond
Spin and mope,
You can find and define many glimmers
Of hope:
In the smiles of a child,
In the buds that push up from a freshly thawed ground,
In expanding delight of inquiring minds,
In the light that reflects from a window just shined,
In the wriggling joy of a pup under hand,
In humanity’s goals that your heart understands,
Your soul now demands,
And your words and your acts and your vote get behind.
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Photo: Inbar Asif
It is alright
To pause,
To stop,
To dial back the crush
Of too chaotic
Stuff.
Hold up.
It won’t disrupt
Your pace of life,
If you let in a slower breath
That fills your lungs
With calm,
Instead of huff
And puff.
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Photo: Ofir Asif
In the furor of fury
Frothing rage
At the truth,
Do not let floods
Form furrows
In foundations of sooth.
Let the foam
Ferry falsehoods
Like the filth film
From swamps,
And find footholds
In facts
Against fear flashing
Tromps.
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