Small Staple

March 15, 2020March 15, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Good stuff!, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Childhood, Food, Forage, History, Making do, Malva nicaeensis, memories, Nourishment, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Sunday Stills 18 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Small and humble,

It fills bellies,

When there’s no

Choice of grain.

The green leaves,

The tiny fruit,

Pantry for

Times of pain.

For the Sunday Still’s challenge: #Close and #Green

Night Walker

March 14, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: Childhood trauma, children, Creative writing, Family, Poetry, Posttraumatic Stress, Secrets, Sleepwalking, Somnambulism, Unspoken, Weekend Writing Prompt, Writing Challenge 16 Comments

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She’d appear out of her bed

As if in dream.

An apparition in their kitchen.

A small figure levitating up the stairs

From the nursery,

A flannel nightgown sweeping over the cold floor

And her bare feet.

They might’ve wondered

Why she had become

A somnambulist,

Had they not needed to keep

Any odd thing

Completely clandestine.

So they latched the front door

High,

And kept the very secret

Of her night-walking

Under the covers

Of unspoken sleep.

For the Weekend Writing Prompt: Somnambulist in 78 words

The Big Scale

March 10, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Current affairs, Finding a way, fpj-photo-challenge, Life Lessons, Making do, Meditation, Perspective, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Scale, Waterfall, wisdom 3 Comments

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

In the big scale

Of things

Where watershed moments

Froth and fall in

Flush forward,

Each of us but a dot

Drenched in mist

Hoping life

Flows without

A fast-forward.

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Scale

A Bit Of Stir

March 9, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: cause and effect, Charisma, Creative writing, dVerse, Mystery, Poetry, Quadrille, Reaction, Stir, Writing Challenge, Writing prompt 23 Comments

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Photo: Mads Schmidt Rasmussen on Unsplash

She was always one to cause

Quite a bit of stir

In every entrance,

In the very way the air around

Her every move

Would shift

To agitated waiting,

For something breathless

That was not easily worded

Yet nonetheless remained

Indelibly perceived as

Inescapable.

For the dVerse quadrille poetry challenge: stir

Them Poor Bushes

March 6, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Professional Development, Reflections, Writing Tags: Choices, Creative writing, Decisions, Figure, Indecision, Just because, Just for fun, Rhyme, Social Skills, SoCS, Stream of Consciousness, Working together 4 Comments

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She figures it would be okay.

She figures it would do.

She’ll find her schedule and get back,

Within a month or two.

She figures she could do the task.

She figures it is fine.

She’d done a thing like that before,

Not quite, but in outline.

Still, she figures it a breeze.

She figures she’d succeed.

Even when history, at best,

Is wondering if indeed.

She figures this, she figures that

In neutral all her wheels,

And it becomes impossible

To not begin to feel,

That maybe it’d be easier

To let them bushes be

They’re beat from hedging here and there

And wishing they could flee!

Note: This was really just for fun and isn’t about (ahem) anyone … So similarity to any individual is (sort of) coincidental … 😉 Dedicated to all the ‘he’ and ‘she’ and ‘you’ and ‘they,’ who won’t say yea and won’t say nay, and leave us all in limbo every day …

For Linda Hill’s SoCS challenge: figure