Persian Cyclamen; Photo: Atara Katz
Don’t be fooled by the blush
Or swan’s head
In a bow
Strength does not always show
But do not try to
Chow
There is more to this beauty
Than what meets
The eye
Even if in first glance
She appears to be
Shy.
Fun Fact: The tuber of this flower is semi-poisonous. Fishermen would grate it, mix it with water and lime, and sprinkle the mixture in lakes and ponds to stun the fish so they would rise to the surface to be collected.
“It isn’t armor that makes one a good kitchen-window sentry,” he instructed the younglings during a quick peck break.
“Is it the blade?” piped Pepper and stretched a leg to critically eye a very immature spur.
The bird clucked fondly at the chick. Always the feisty one, Pepper was. Last to emerge from the egg but first in every yard-race since.
“No, Son,” the quail stretched tall. “It is all in the plume. Once it grows, hold it high, bob it well.”
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Photo: Ofir Asif
There is harm in the air
Infants caged
Children scammed,
There are guards
Bearing guns
Tearing babies from arms.
Those before us who fought
For the hunted, the hurt
Weep in graves
As the country they served
Mutates to enact
Inhumane acts
On the wrong tracks.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Trains and Tracks
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When corruption reaches levels
That even present swamps
Cannot contain
There comes a time
To open windows
And expel the source of pain.
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Central Park, NYC (Photo: Na’ama Yehuda)
The more chaotic life becomes
With power hungers gaining ground,
The more determined then I am
To point the beauty that surrounds,
The heart and kindness that abound
And the true peace that won’t succumb.
For The Wits End Weekly Photo Challenge
Photo: Dvora Freedman
In a world of Divine
Prophecies
Of all kinds,
Little wonder
A Mantis
Folds green limbs
To Life’s design.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
Water-worn by the ages
By the floods
By the rain,
Time has carved
Eras’ layers
Through the rock
Grain by grain.
Scars of years
Line the wadi
To funnel life –
None in vain.
For The Tuesday Photo Challenge
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
In a city that
Never
Sleeps
It soars high,
With the weight of the
World
Hollowed out,
Scraping sky.
Photo: Ofir Asif
They called them “The Twins”
And termed them inseparable.
Though they each had a name
Using those seemed interminable.
There was ease in regarding
Two beings at once
When the duo rarely gave
Singularity a chance.
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Photo: Dvora Freedman
As the first freesia
Bravely blooms
Buds await
In scaly wombs
Till it tastes
Sun’s perfume.
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