Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
There’s a very pink
Elephant on the sidewalk
With nail polish
Half done.
Children stare
Babies point
But many others walk on.
As in many a living room
Where elephants silently stand,
Perhaps New York City adults
Aren’t easily stunned.
Photo: Palaeolithic art at Foz Côa’s Archaeological Park, Portugal
“Why do you hit the rock with sharpened stones?”
Golin quaked under The Elder’s frown. It was forbidden to harm The Rocks That Shelter. The big stones protected them from biting teeth and snarling maws. They stopped the wind. They held back scorching sun. They reflected heat from fires.
And let flames paint shadows, Golin thought.
“He will drive away Horse Spirit and we will starve,” Morsen scowled predictably.
“Let him answer,” The Elder said.
Morsen seethed. The old man always favored Golin.
“The Rocks That Shelter do not anger when the fire lives in them,” Golin pointed at the dancing reflection on the wall.
“He makes no sense,” Morsen pouted. A few others nodded but The Elder’s stony gaze did not leave Golin’s face.
“They draw the fire near,” Golin stressed. Couldn’t they see? “Perhaps The Rocks That Shelter will welcome Horse Spirit and call it here.”
For What Pegman Saw: Douro, Portugal
Photo: Adi Rozen-Zvi
A pink perch
For the flutter
A brief pause
On the fly
For the moment
That lapses
As a breath
Passes by.
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Take heart
Even when reality
Would bleed it dry
With injustice
And stale pride.
Be heartened
By the strength
Of those who wait out
The belligerent
And will not see
Truth and decency
Denied.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo challenge
Photo: Dvora Freedman
May you always have a gentle place
To lounge with friends
And swing,
And bloom,
And sing.
Photo: Inge Vandormael
So she stands in the harbor
Greeting weary souls’ sails.
Her eyes had welcomed
The many
Who fled war, harm, travail.
She faced cannons
Of hardship,
Wept as terror sought
To prevail.
She marks the better
We can be,
The stories nations
Can be proud
To tell.
Through many storms
In the harbor,
She lights the way
In the gale.
As hate now amplifies sorrow
Seeking to see her bounty
Curtailed,
She hopes her pledge ‘cross the ages
Won’t become one made
To no avail.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: our world
Photo: Inbar Asif
As we hold endless heartache
Of scandal, war, crime, abuse
May we also remember
Gentler waves, kinder views;
So the holes rent by hardship
Will not make us refuse
To let pain become a window
To the good we can profuse.
For the Pink September Squares
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Come right up and
Cart on home
A bucketful
Of sugar shorn,
In colors that will
Gladden hearts
And sweet treat joy
To pull apart.
Kids tend to be
The eager ones
But some quite grown
Still think it’s fun.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pastels
Photo: Yael Yehuda
There’s no mistaking
Intelligence
In this aubergine
If only for how
Its spectacles
Intervene
In order to prevent it
From becoming
Cuisine.
For Kammie’s Oddball Challenge
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Spring recalls
How bushes previously bared
By frost and freeze,
Found a new lease
To bubble forth
A pink exuberance.
It is a good remembering
As fall emerges
To reclaim
The bushes’ leaves
Ahead of winter’s
Naked sleep.
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