Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Life is stacked like so
Many layers of summer
In the Central Park.
(Note: While I do resent the growing need to face reality of summer heading to an end, I accept the challenge for increased layer-awareness … 😉 ).
For the Sunday Stills challenge: Seasonal Layers
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Ringed by the City’s
Towering scape
The reservoir
Invites a pause,
A breath of calm
Escape.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: City
Photo: D. Freedman
In between the wish for more
And need for less
She paused to let the breeze pass
Through
And transform her
From the rushing steps that never seem to
Gain foothold
On life,
To the tranquility of what is
Yet
to be left
Behind.
For the dVerse poetry quadrille challenge: tranquility
Photo: Inbar Asif
The sweetness will mellow,
Proofed with time,
To become its own rich
Memory
Of ways
To be wise
Be full
Be kind.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Vintage in 22 words
Photo: A. Asif
The rough cut
Will conform
Tree to log by
Saw and hew,
So it merges
With others
To build shelter
For you.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Things made of wood
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
In the moment of the soft swell
Of a calm curl,
The gentle foam
Belays the power of
The waves that lift ocean liners
And cradle whales.
A breath
Before
Exhale.
Thank you, Terri, for this prompt. Perfect for today. For me, the shore is the ultimate calibrator. I took this photo in Ogonquit, Maine, quite too many years ago. Time to go back. Time to go to the beach. Any beach. For breath, for awe, for space, for zen.
For Sunday Stills: Essence of Zen
She could go up
Or down
On the path
Into town.
There the low road
Awaited,
Full of snarls and
outdated.
Or she could take
The high
With its twists,
Turns,
And sighs.
She could go up
Or down
On the path
Into town.
So she paused to
Reflect,
How to best
Course correct,
And decided it
Best
To give the high road
A test.
For Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Bright light shines
Onto poles
As egrets call
And small hands
Hold
Sight to
Behold.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Rectangles
Photo: Mehrdad Haghighi via Unsplash
Spattered,
Scattered,
Splattered
Like galaxies
Of reversed light
Upon the expanse
Of skin.
Concentrated pigment
On the canvas
Of the body,
They speckle
Like stars
Reflected
In the negative of film.
Beloved,
They dance upon
The nose.
A freckled
Symphony
Of brown and gold.
For the dVerse Quadrille Challenge
Photo: Philip Coons
May the words wrap
Around you
In shade and in
Sun.
May a book grab
Inside you
To where stories
Abound.
May good tales sustain
Your
Every heartbeat
And sound.
May you find space
Aplenty
To create
Reading time.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Sculpture
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