Photo: Inbar Asif
Polite tree
Clearing branches
Away from the path,
To let climbers pass by
For a one-sided
Hug.
Horizontal Manners
Muse and Flow
Do Not Quail
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
When powerful
Pound podiums
With rabid lies
To sow mistrust,
Don’t falter
From the facts
Of what is wrong
And what is right.
Don’t quail before
Deep cruelty
That shreds your heart
To cries.
Step forth
For those who have no voice,
Be brave
And mobilize.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 19, 2018:
Quail
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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Cookie Share
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“Now it’s my turn to ask you a question,” she said. “And you have to answer.”
“Fair enough,” I smiled. After all, I’d just subjected this child to a long list of questions to which she had to respond.
“What if,” she began, twinkle-eyed, “you had only one cookie, but you needed to share it with fifty kids?”
“Hmm …” I pondered. “That’s a tough one. One cookie only?”
“Yep!” She raised her eyebrows in satisfaction at what had to be my stupefied expression.
“Can I hand out something else instead?” I bargained.
“Nope. One cookie, fifty kids.” The eight-year-old was utterly too pleased with herself.
I smelled a rat but I wasn’t going to show it. She’d earned this after soldiering on through the difficult portions of the testing battery. “I give up.” I raised my hands in surrender. “I don’t see how I can split one cookie between fifty kids.”
“I never said how big the cookie had to be, did I?” she chortled. “If you have a gigantic humongous cookie it would be easy peasy to have everyone share it!”
For Cee’s Share Your World June-18-2018
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Jabberwocky
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
If the spoot
Got your boot
And the ptuk
Stole your truck,
It is time to call
A glonky
To clean up
This jabberwocky.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 18, 2018:
Jabberwocky
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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Meritorious Aim
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Be the best
Make your quest
To put your spirit
To the test
So merit’s claim
Not empty fame
Becomes your aim.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 17, 2018:
Meritorious
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Odd Ride
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
A pick up?
Jeep duplex?
A jacuzzi inside?
This hybrid is
A heck
Of an over-decked
Ride.
(Yep, this one’s odd even for Manhattan …)
For Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge
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Purple Power
Globe Thistle (Photo: Amitai Asif)
It is prickly
It is fine
It is purple
And divine!
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Don’t Tantalize
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
If you have in hand a carrot
Dangle it not
Before the starved.
If you hold a drink of water
Don’t spill it in view
Of thirsty who don’t have.
Power doesn’t lie
In tormenting the helpless.
Do not dishonor justice
Whilst children beg for salve.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 16, 2018:
Tantalize
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Walk This Way
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Walk this way
To the water
Where the goats
Cleared a path.
Walk this way
Where the feet
Of the ancients
Have passed.
Walk this way
Little brother
I will give you
My hand.
Walk this way
And together
Our adventures
Expand.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge
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Pugnacious
Photo by Tim Mossholder on Pexels.com
One does not become a leader
By swindling others for one’s seat.
Seeking fights reflects weak character,
Especially when it harms the weak.
True role models hold themselves
To higher standards,
Not bully others when they speak.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 15, 2018:
Pugnacious
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