Meet the Beat

June 27, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: 100WordChallenge, Creativity, Deadline, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Just for fun, Music, Short Story, travel 26 Comments

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

The new piece unfolded in his head during the long flight. The chords danced to the beat of the flickering red light on the airplane’s wing and the turbulence lent base to the melody. It was perfect. He’d have written the notes right there and then had it not been for his propensity to motion sickness. Staring out the window was the only remedy. Sometimes the best inspiration.

“Let it go, let it go!” his daughter’s singing in her room welcomed him home.

And the nascent harmonies obeyed, dispersed, let gone.

For The Friday Fictioneers June 29 2018 Challenge

Bedizened

June 27, 2018June 27, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Bedizen, children, delight, Dress up, Just for fun, MerriamWebster, play, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

Photo: The Mid-life Woman

She twirls this way and back again

Jingling beads fit for a reign

Tuto flying

Boas, too.

Joyfully bedizened

To wazoo.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 27, 2018:

Bedizen

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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Diagonal Climb

June 26, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Writing Tags: Build, CFFC, Impermanence, light, Photo Challenge, Photography, Reflection, Simplicity, Sunlight, Sustainable, Timeless 4 Comments

Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev

The light climbs

Up the walls,

Its ancient pace

Never stalls,

Letting sun

Follow earth,

On a path

To rebirth.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Do or Dye

June 26, 2018June 26, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Be yourself, Being Human, Color, Diversity, fpj-photo-challenge, Pallette, Peru, Photo Challenge, Photography, Rainbow 5 Comments

Photo: Amitai Asif

Do not shy

From the dye,

Do not cringe

From the fringe.

What gives flowers the hue

Can teach color to you.

If two tones were the all

We’d be so bored we’d bawl.

So go on and dye more

Shades of lovely galore.

For The Tuesday Photo Challenge

Route To Kaput

June 26, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Be a voice, Current affairs, History, humanity, Leadership, MerriamWebster, Morality, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

train junction SouthAfrica Pinterest CarryMills

Photo: Pinterest, Carrie Miles

Olden times come to rise

Where the heartless devise

Righteousness to brutalize

Those they dehumanize.

An unwise move, time shows

For a smart person knows

That even one group maligned

Cracks open fault lines

In a stroke that would put

A reign on path to kaput.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 26, 2018:

Kaput

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Amortize

June 25, 2018June 26, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Bullying, Current affairs, History, Human Rights, MerriamWebster, Racism, Value, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay, WWII Leave a comment

never again poland

Allow persons in power

To amortize the legitimacy of those

They term ‘others,’

And the weak will fall behind them,

Eager to believe themselves

More worthy

Than most.

They’d be wrong, of course, for

They are not.

Because none who are truly strong

And deserving of honor

Would ever devalue others

Nor would they sit back as

Inhumanity

Takes hold.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 25, 2018:

Amortize

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Effigial Critique

June 24, 2018June 24, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Current affairs, Dictator, History, Human Rights, Tryanny, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

(Photo: Jodi Hill for Sports Illustrated)

If it’s fame that you seek

Know how history speaks

Of tyranny’s recognition

Turning infamy

And

Effigial critique.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 24, 2018:

Effigy

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Time Travel

June 24, 2018June 24, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: COB, History, Odd, Out of place, Photo Challenge, Photography, Timeless, Transportation, Vienna 4 Comments

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Out of place

Out of time

As the half-hour

Chimes

Periods bend

And history glides

In past with present

Side by side.

For Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge

Coniston Choice

June 23, 2018June 23, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: Coniston Water, Flash Fiction, Lake district, life-change, New Beginnings, Short Story, travel, United Kingdom, What Pegman Saw 15 Comments

Photo: www.lakedistrict.gov.uk

She shrugged her macintosh off to use as ground cover before lowering herself gingerly. She drove two hours to get here and her hip still protested anything less cushioned than her bed, let alone damp gravel. Still, walking in the fresh air was good for her, the doctor said.

Didn’t say where she had to do that walking, and Norm was no longer around to object. He’d been terrified of flying, worried about trains, sea-sick on boats, wary around cars. Poor Norm. She couldn’t blame him. Not after what he’d gone through during the war.

Made for dreary holidays, though.

Not anymore.

She gazed at the lake, took a deep breath, and pulled the folded papers out of her pocket: The unsigned bill of sale for the house; the travel agent’s brochure for the round-the-world ticket.

For What Pegman Saw: Coniston Water Lake District