Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
I can play in the tent
I can play with these balls
But to have you play with me
Is what I want most of all!
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Play
Come Play!
Photography
Window Wonder
Photo: Inbar Asif
If the world’s reflected
Like a mirror
In the windows
Of your mind,
Would you know to tell
The difference
Between inside
And outside?
For Lens-Artist Photo Challenge: Windows
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Pink Strong
Photo: Atara Katz
Underneath the soft plumage
And pretty colors
Afield,
Resides a strength to protect
From those who violence
Wield.
Underneath the pink top
The hat of power
Revealed,
Live truths of how both
Softness and thorns
Are required
To be healed.
For the Sunday Stills Challenge: Make mine pink
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Crowned Warmth
Photo: Ofir Asif
In the small, darker moments
When light appears to be
Gone,
Recall life giving
Sunlight
Reflected
In crowned Chrysanthemum.
When the cold seeps
To sorrow
And the path may be
Lost,
Remember how the warmth
Of the many
Can the most hidden
Truths
Defrost.
A bit of trivia: Chrysanthemum Coronarium, AKA Glebionis Coronaria, is an edible variant of the Daisy family (the greens are eaten). It is native to the Mediterranean region but is cultivated in Asia, and more recently in North America. The plant is rich in minerals and vitamins, including potassium and carotene. Some toxic properties (dioxin) have been observed and extracts of the plant can inhibit the growth of some helpful gut flora.
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Rising Rice
Photo: Adi Rozen-Zvi
Up in mountains
Down valleys
‘Midst small villages
Near towns,
Seedlings
Rise
From the water
Neath bent backs
Patient hands
Toward the sun.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Things People Grow
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Echoes Of Before
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Who had stepped through this door
Over thresholds
Before?
What words did old timber
Hear
In times gone but still near?
Do dormant secrets
Await
Behind a roped-to-close gate?
If you step close enough to
Go through
Will the past echo to you?
For the Wits End Photo Challenge: History
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Messenger
Photo: Dvora Freedman
Above it soars,
Large feathers splayed,
A messenger
Of times ahead.
With blessings given,
Seasons’ change,
It rises
O’er the home range.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: In flight
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Row Ahead
Photo: Karen Forte
Row ahead
On the water
Toward shores
Yet to tread.
Hold on to
Oars that matter
To kind oaths
You have pledged.
Row abreast
With the others
Who ride forth
On life’s thread.
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Ocean Breath
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
In the curl
Between inhale
And exhale
Breathes an ocean.
In it all
That can ebb
And will flow
As we come
And we go,
Scent of eons
And life
Surf to soul
Calming strife.
For dVerse Poetics: Comfort Smells
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Big As The Sky
Photo: Adi Rozen-Zvi
Under big sky
Amid the sea
Big Buddha shows
The way to be
As people flock
Foreign and Thai
To pray for poise
In Wat Phra Yai.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Go Big
Na'ama Yehuda 
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