Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
They emerge deep at night
To play tunes out of sight
Giants, trolls, hoards of sprites
To the bridge they alight
Where they’ll sing till first light.
If you listen, you might
Catch a tune fleeting bright
Ode to sax stuck upright.
For the A Photo A Week Challenge: Music
Photo: Dvora Freedman
In the restless nights
They walked
Silent in the desert
Stalked
While the prowlers
Rose to halt
And turn hope
To anguished fault.
But we’ll silent be
No more
For those who had been harmed
Before.
And we will raise our voice
To show
That cruelty we will not
Let grow.
For dVerse Poets: Sounds of Silence
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Fields of Gold
You’ll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley
You’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in fields of gold
So she took her love for to gaze awhile upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down among the fields of gold
Will you stay with me, will you be my love among the fields of barley?
We’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we lie in fields of gold
See the west wind move like a lover so upon the fields of barley.
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth among the fields of gold
I never made promises lightly and there have been some that I’ve broken
But I swear in the days still left we’ll walk in fields of gold
We’ll walk in fields of gold
Many years have passed since those summer days among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down among the fields of gold
You’ll remember me when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky when we walked in fields of gold
When we walked in fields of gold, when we walked in fields of gold
Here’s the version as sang by Sting in 1993:
And one of my favorite renditions by Eva Cassidy (RIP, Eva, your music goes on):
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Field
Photo: Elie Kichka
Undulating dunes
Slowly slide
To the sound
Of soft sand
Under hand.
For the Lens Artists Photo Challenge: Soft
Photo: Inbar Asif
If you’re out and about
But your thirst is quite real
There’s a clear stream awaiting
To help you chill your fill.
For the Sunday Still Challenge: Summer drink
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
I will go, Big Brother
To the end of the earth
After you.
In spite of fear
I will try to repeat
All you do.
But I’ll still
Just in case
Reach for
And draw courage
From you.
For the Wits End Challenge: Childhood
Photo source: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Take a rest.
Rest your weight.
Old or new
There for you.
Scratched by love
Left by hate
It will let
The world wait
As you breathe
Quiet in
Quiet out
Soul inflate
Calm create.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
The sheer size of injustice
May derail many a
Courage,
But the sure footed will know
There’s much room to
Encourage,
For heft can usurp power
But does not need mean
Might,
When the small but the many
Can prove stronger in a
Fight.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
May the wind
Fill your sail,
May your path
Never fail,
May you be spared
Facing gale
Or travail
And may good fortune
Prevail.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Wind
Photo: Dvora Freedman
In the endless, languid days of summer
When hubris and humidity nixes
Facts and kindness
Into haze,
Lays the promise of a fall soon coming
Where saner, cooler heads
May well usher in
Better days.
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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