Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
There it is
The first one,
Breaking through
Your sore gum.
Yet you smile
Wide and true:
Budding tooth
New to you.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge
New To You
Photography
Horizontal Manners
Photo: Inbar Asif
Polite tree
Clearing branches
Away from the path,
To let climbers pass by
For a one-sided
Hug.
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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
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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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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Pretty in Pink
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.
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Sentry Lesson
PHOTO PROMPT © Jean L. Hays
“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.”
To join Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers prompt, click here.
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Wrong Tracks
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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Peace Point
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
Na'ama Yehuda 
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