Shenanigan

June 9, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Bullying, Crowd mentality, Current affairs, empathy, Gaslighting, Harm, MerriamWebster, Morality, Truth, WordOfDayNY Leave a comment

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A trick elicits grins by design

But the smirks are clear sign

Of those who won’t admit

The high cost of deceit.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 9, 2018:

Shenanigan

This post continues the blogging challenge in which Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, serves as inspiration a-la the “Daily Prompt.”

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Make Way

June 8, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Central Park, CWW, cycle of life, Finding a way, Interconnectedness, Life Lessons, Photo Challenge, Photography, Reduce Reuse Recycle 2 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

There’s a path in the park

Lined by mulch from trees past

So that every step presses

What had grown,

What won’t last.

For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge

Whelm

June 8, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Choices, Current affairs, empathy, humanity, MerriamWebster, Moral compass, Overwhelm, WordOfDayNY Leave a comment

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Be it under

Or over

Be it florid

Or plain

It is best to not whelm

With ill-deeds.

Just refrain.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 8, 2018:

Whelm

This post continues the blogging challenge in which Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, serves as inspiration a-la the “Daily Prompt.”

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Promised Appetite

June 7, 2018June 7, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing, Yummy Tags: Delicious, Food, fpj-photo-challenge, Gardening, Just for fun, Photo Challenge, Photography 3 Comments

Photo: Dvora Freedman

Where the green spikes grow tall

And the artichoke blossoms

You just know that the future

Will taste pretty awesome.

For The Tuesday Photo Challenge

Boondoggle

June 7, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Corruption, Current affairs, Leadership, MerriamWebster, Morality, Speak up, Truth, WordOfDayNY Leave a comment

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Not all that splashes

Is worthy

Not all that glitters

Is gold

Beware those

In deepening swamps

Who won’t ethics uphold.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 7, 2018:

Boondoggle

This post continues the blogging challenge in which Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, serves as inspiration a-la the “Daily Prompt.”

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The Top Half

June 6, 2018June 6, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: All is One, Big Wheel, CFFC, Karma, Life Lessons, Perspective, Photo Challenge, Photography, wisdom 4 Comments

Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor

In all of life’s rides

Good perspective is gold

And it’s wise to remember

That the top half

Revolves.

For Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge

Waiting for Sam

June 6, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: 100WordChallenge, Friday Fictioneers, Just for fun, Meetings, Missed opportunities, Short Story, Waiting 25 Comments

Friday Fictioneers’ photo prompt © Roger Bultot

He’ll meet her at the exhibition at Noon, he’d promised.

“You’ll see. Twelve on the dot.”

“Like Cinderella?” she had joked.

“Sort of.”

She scanned the crowds, the balconies, the empty domes that rose above like marble skies.

Laughter echoed. People milled around.

She checked her watch again.

It had inched, traitorous, well past twelve o’clock.

Like Cinderella with no fairy godmother, she thought.

Never should have eaten that pumpkin Sam had bought.

To join Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers prompt, click here.

Unbeknownst

June 6, 2018June 7, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Awareness, Being seen, Depression, Grief, Loss, MerriamWebster, Sorrow, Support, Understanding, WordOfDayNY Leave a comment

Photo: Inbar Asif

Unbeknownst

To anyone

Pain stripped her bare

Inside her mind.

She put on a brave face

And smiled

So no one see

What hid behind.

But how I pray

She understands

She’s not alone:

Hope’s here to find.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 6, 2018:

Unbeknownst

This post continues the blogging challenge in which Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, serves as inspiration a-la the “Daily Prompt.”

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Over Arching

June 5, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Writing Tags: Amodos, Architecture, CFFC, Europe, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Timeless 4 Comments

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Under azure sky the

Undulating arches

Sing

Of sun and shade

And time

Scooped in.

For Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge

Fustigate

June 5, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Be gentle, compassion, education, kindness, MerriamWebster, Nonviolence, WordOfDayNY, Writing 1 Comment

Photo: Ofir Asif

There is no need to bludgeon

To clobber

To hammer it home.

Butting heads is cathartic

But leaves no one informed.

Get points across kindly

For effective reform.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 5, 2018:

Fustigate

This post continues the blogging challenge in which Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, serves as inspiration a-la the “Daily Prompt.”

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