Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Framed by
Turquoise water,
Aligned by
Mountains
And turf.
Next in line
For takeoff,
Ere the last leg
To Thailand
And loved ones
And surf.
For the Sunday Stills Photo Challenge: Lines and squares
Next in Line
Poetry
Safe Haven
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She closed her eyes
And drifted,
Snug,
Through the safe haven
Of warm arms,
And dreamed of
Milk
And coos
And sun,
And all the smiles
That feed
Her heart
And mind.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Haven in 32 words
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Metastasis
Photo: Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash
It lingered, hidden.
It’s potential ever present
Yet hoped
To in deep sleep
Remain.
Till it found purchase
Someplace where the
Balance
Could not be
Maintained.
“It’s metastatic now,”
They said
And shook their head
And watched her deep breath
Rise
Along with the determination
From last time,
Returned.
It will be
What it will,
But even if equilibrium
Was difficult to
Attain,
She was going to meet
Life
Head on
Again.
Dedicated to those who are facing this challenge now: You got this. We got you.
For Linda Hill’s SoCS challenge: “-tast”
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Desert Reflection
Photo: Amitai Asif
In the middle of the desert
Where the dirt stretches far,
Hope ripples atop a small
Opaque reservoir,
That come night reflects
Heaven’s traveling star.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rectangles and Squares
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Quite Out of Yellow
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
“Mama, we are quite out of
Yellow
And down to the last
Red.
I’ve used up all the
Orange
And can’t use green
Instead.
We must head to the
Market
Where there’s so much to
Get.
I cannot cook this salad
If
Colors aren’t all here
Yet!”
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Groceries
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On Delicate Wings
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
What had happened to you
In the short life
You knew?
Your wings’ rhythm
Aflutter
To a drum
Gone
Askew?
Your beauty imbued
By what could life
Subdue,
You flit on right
Through,
Gloriously determined,
To be you,
To be you.
For the Sunday Stills challenge: A bug’s life
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Or Not
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The sun will warm
Again
Or far
Too hot.
The water that sustains
Will flood
Again
Or not.
The tenet that prevails
Remains:
This magic of a planet
To protect
We ought,
Or an ultimatum
Spurred by greed
With life as
Afterthought,
Will render what we
Know
And what we for our
Children hoped,
Into a disaster
We had let be
Bought.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Ultimatum in 62 words
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The Strength Of Stone
Photo: Ofir Asif
The strength of stone
Allows the rounding of its
Edges by time
And rain.
It lets the earth
Scour its base
As flood-paths swirl
And drain,
Even as it lets itself
Maintain
A firm place
To lean
One’s burden on,
Again.
Note: My nephew took this photo in Ethiopia, and I am humbled and moved by the beauty of it, and the eons it carries and the beginnings – and middles, and ends – of so many things it had seen.
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Not Doom
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
I am not yet
Extinct
From here.
The winds that came
Once more
To blow me into an
Oblivion of preemptive
Grief,
Are yet to fray
The threads that
Hold me
In the hope
That this time, too
Will turn
A test, not
Doom.
For the dVerse Quadrille Poetry Challenge: Extinction
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Fair Exchange
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She knew
It had always been
A barter:
Heartbeat
For
Hope.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Barter in 11 words
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