In The Shallows

November 14, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Breathing Space, Clarity, Creative writing, Flash Fiction, Lake, life, Looking Glass, Meditation, Micro-fiction, Mirror, Poetry, WritePhoto 11 Comments

Photo: Sue Vincent

There was beauty in the shallows.

The mirror of the skies. The crystalline water in their unabashed reveal. The bottom — old and newer bits together — inviting her to step in and stir the quiet till it rises soft between her toes to momentarily obscure all things.

Opacity reassured her.

Like the enveloping from clouds when they leaned in close in misty acknowledgment, it held reminders:

That life was often muddy.

That clarity was temporary, hard won, and easily disrupted.

That fog spread quickly and lifted slowly, leaving damp disorientation in its wake.

That even shallows could reflect upended bowls of heaven and earth.

As if it heard, the water summoned her and she stepped into the silt. Wavelets nipped at her ankles, snapping cold against her skin.

Her toes disappeared, and she thought how apt it was to have her foundation hidden underneath a swirl of settling.

She breathed and closed her eyes and stilled and became one with the water, one with the sediment of time and the detritus of being.

Slowly, both the lake and her mind cleared.

She heard her spirit whistle on the wind.

For Sue Vincent’s WritePhoto

Yellow Fellows

November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: A moment in time, CFFC, Fall, foliage, Micro Poetry, New York City, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Yellow 19 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Speed of passage

Matched

By change

Of time.

A City moment

Snatched

By yellow

In its

Prime.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Yellow

Yellowed Gold

November 10, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: City life, Fall, Festival of leaves, foliage, Leaves, Micro Poetry, New York City, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Sunday Stills, Trees, Yellow 22 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Yellowed gold

Touching white

Lighting day

Glinting night.

Perfect fingers

Splayed bold

Last hurrah

Before cold.

For Sunday Stills: Yellow

For Dawn’s Festival of Leaves

The Essentials

November 8, 2019November 8, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: Calm, CCC, Flash Fiction, Going home, Micro-fiction, Nature, Nourishment, Outdoors, Photo Fiction, Photo prompt, Writing Challenge 20 Comments

Finally.

She shrugged her pack off and lowered herself so her back rested against a tree, blessing — for the umpteenth time — the waterproofs she’d splurged on several years ago. The purchase had meant giving up puddings for two months, but she’d never regretted the trade-off.

Food was essential, but so was heeding nature’s call for spending time in the outdoors. It was required nourishment for her soul.

In any weather, no matter damp or cold.

Soon she’d make the tent, gather wood, and light a fire to cook her oats on. But first she just sat, filling her lungs with air and her mind with calm contentment.

Raised in the city, she didn’t know how hungry she was for the outdoors until friends invited them to join a camping trip. She was ten.

Her parents hated every minute of it. For her, it had been like finally finding home.

For Crimson’s Creative Challenge #52

In The Blackest Night

November 5, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: Adversity, Black, Childhood, coping, dVerse, Finding a way, hope, memories, Night, Poetry, Tenacity, Worry 12 Comments

Photo: Hongmei Zhao on Unsplash

In the blackest night

She woke

To hear the flutter of her

Heart

Singing melodies of courage

In her ears.

As the hours ticked

Long seconds full of

Ink,

And stretched worries

She had long learned how to

Blink,

She held on to

Wisps of memories

Mirrored in her unshed

Tears,

And recalled the echoes

Of abandon

In the giggles

Of her very early

Years.

For the dVerse Poetics challenge: Black

Apple Picking

October 29, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Things Kids Say, Writing, Yummy Tags: Apple Picking, Autumn, children, Creative writing, Description, dVerse, Fall, Family, Poetry, Senses, Writing Challenge, Writing prompt 38 Comments

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

He saw the gnarled trunk and the orbs

Round

And red

And green,

Undulating in the breeze that

Caressed his cheeks and flipped the end

Of his shirt up

Cool

On his tummy

When he ran.

He heard the crunch of grass-blades

Succulent

Under the smooth soles of

His shoes,

Each step sinking slightly into the

Soft

Saturated

Ground.

The thump of apple

Fallen

Filled his ears,

Alongside his own breath

Fast,

Excited

In his chest,

And the sound of his family

Drumming apples

Into their

Rustling plastic bags

And creaky wooden crates

And pinging metal pail.

He smelled the crushed grass,

The too-sweet scent of slightly

Rotting apples

On damp ground,

And a whiff of the caramel

That promised

One on a stick

For later on.

He stretched

To reach

Around the fruit,

The sky in his eyes and

The taste of last year’s

Treat

Faint and candied

On his

Tongue.

For the dVerse challenge: senses

Coastal Calm

October 29, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Analogy, Breathing Space, Calm, Coast, fpj-photo-challenge, Meditation, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Raising Children, Sleep, Sweetness 15 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Ah, the curve of the coast

Leaning into

Itself,

Like a child’s

Sleepy head

Her weight slowly

Transferred.

Ah, the breath of the sea

Curling wave after

Wave.

A warm exhale

On your neck,

Child’s rest clearly

Preferred.

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Coast

In Twilight

October 26, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Creative writing, Dreams, life, light, Poetry, Sunset, Twilight, Weekend Writing Prompt, Writing Challenge, Writing prompt 8 Comments

Photo: A. Asif

In twilight we live.

In twilight we love.

In edges of morning

And evening

We strive

To become

What we hoped

We could master

As we have

Let the sun

Roll itself into

Night and

Rise the moon

To the dreams

We sleep of.

For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Twilight in 44 words

Set The Sun

October 22, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Creative writing, End of Day, Evening, fpj-photo-challenge, Going home, Overcome, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Sunset, Wonderland 7 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Set the sun

Gently behind the loops

Of the day.

Behind the curves and the slopes

That turned your world

Inside out

And your plans

Upside down

And away.

Spread your wings

And head home

To where nestlings

Await

And the feathers of evening

Welcome you

At the gate.

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Sunset

I’ll Be The Quiver

October 21, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Creative writing, dVerse, Growing up, Keeping children safe, parenting, Poetry, Protection, Quadrille, Quiver, Writing prompt 24 Comments

Photo: Annie Spratt on Unsplash

I’ll be the quiver

For the arrows

You don’t yet know

How to hold.

I’ll guard the darts

The barbs

The jagged

Points,

Safe within the

Burnished leather

Of my years,

Till you grow enough

To be the quiver

For your own

Sharpened spears.

For the dVerse quadrille challenge: quiver

Photo: Sue Vincent

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