Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
I will paddle into sunlight
Where the ocean
Kisses sky,
Where the sailboats’
Neat triangles
Patch the blue
With bits of pie.
For Nancy Merrill’s Photo A Week Challenge
Sailed Horizon
Photography
Floored
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Not a rug
But a floor
You’ll be floored
To adore
As you find
Even more
To marvel
Galore.
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Floor
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Not Minor
Photo: Adi Rozen-Zvi
You hold on in the mountains
Where the way of life you had fled
To protect
Has become
Tied into tourists arriving:
Some to gawk
Others to try and learn a bit about
Your rich traditions,
The pain and pride,
The dignity and patient ways,
The complicated significance
Of who you are
And may wish to remain
And how it is bound into the realities
Of avenues still open to you
In a country where you are
Curios and assets,
As well as precious human beings
Full of life and memories,
And to me rare less in your numbers
Than in the profound window
You open into the uniqueness of
Each one of us
And the minority we are or can be
At any time
To some.
For the Friday Foto Fun challenge: Minorities
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Out Of Shape?
Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
If you are
Out of shape
Worry none
Worry naught,
For a log’s now
A bench
Where a rest can be
Sought.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Geometric shape
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2019 Blessings
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
May this year be as calm as you need it to be
As adventurous as your spirit requires
As hopeful as your heart can hold
As happy as pure joy
As healthy as is doable
As satisfying as your widest dreams
As filled with laughter as your belly can tolerate
As nourishing as warm hugs
As loving as your heart desires
(And then some
Because we can all use
Extra of love).
And … while we’re at it:
May this year bring an end to what no longer sustains you
May what drains you move on, or change
May hurts heal
May grief ease
May frustration untangle till truth’s in the clear.
May worry turn action
May stagnation find pace
May you be all you wanted to be
And a bit more still, just in case …
Blessings be to you,
Na’ama
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Monochrome Mountain
Photo: Amitai Asif
But for lines
On a rock
Guiding one
To take stock,
Eyes may strain
To discern
What is feed
What is fog
What is flock
What is dog.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colorful Monotones
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Be Like Cabbage
Photo: Amitai Asif
“Be like a flower,” she said,
Wrinkles creasing like sun
‘Round her eyes.
“Be like cabbage, too!”
And she laughed
At my confusion and
Touched a calloused hand
To my cheek
For the umpteenth loving time.
“Bloom alone does not fill stomachs,”
She explained
And the years without
Flickered sad behind her smile
But did not interfere.
“Cabbage blooms as pretty as any,
Yet unlike most who wilt
At summer’s end,
It will hold goodness at the ready
To nourish you through winter.”
“Be like a flower, then,” she smiled.
“And like a cabbage, too.
For it will sustain you:
Bland or spiced or hot or cold
Until the snow melts
And you have lived to a new spring
And can, one day, grow old.”
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Take A Snapshot Of Your Heart
Photo: Inbar Asif
As one year draws to close
And another gets set to rise,
Take a snapshot of your heart
In its joy and woe alike.
As moments tick toward the new,
Remove blinds from your weary eyes,
And let Soul show you who
You’ve been when you were wise.
It will revisit steps you took
So you can plan the next,
And hold the images of good,
For New Year’s light to reflect.
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Cute Quartet
Photo: Philip Coons
Not much is cuter
Than a quartet of gosling fluff
With one beak
Staring toward ya
And the rest facing aft.
For Kate’s Friday Foto Fun: Cute factor
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Sideways Slant
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Going up?
Sliding down?
Where is north?
Where’s the sun?
In perspective
And life
Every day
Every time,
Slant will shape
The view
You’ll find.
For Kammie’s Oddball Challenge
Na'ama Yehuda 
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