Photo: Silas Baisch on Unsplash
It was not quite a smile.
It was born not in joy
Nor in any enchantment,
But in desperate
Hope
To forestall
Shame
As it loomed,
A storm
In the fast shrinking distance.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Grimace in 33 words
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
As the shadows lengthened
At the end of day,
She paused,
Reflecting,
On the direction
Of her way.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Shadows
And while we’re at it, for today’s Which Way Challenge
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
How many did these laboriously
Hewed walls
Close in on
As they trudged endlessly
With buckets laden
And arms weighted
Up and down
And up and down again
For more?
How many did they shelter
Under siege
Of catapults and
Rusted arrows
As the walls shuddered
Dust
Onto the bitten lips
And rounded shoulders
Of those crouched below?
How many hastened feet
Did these walls keep secrets for
Under the cover of
Night
And sentries’ snores
As lovers met
In darkened corners
To remember
Life before?
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Wall
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
White puffed blue
Spreads above
To the wide horizon.
For the Sunday Stills Challenge: Blue
Photo: Lancaster Ohio 1938
He was enthralled.
His fate decided
By those who bought
And sold
The humans they preferred
To see as lesser than,
In order to exact a price
For their own
Self-aggrandizing,
Once freed,
His slavery was still
Held against him
In deliberate inequity,
His struggles mocked
As ‘proof’ he hadn’t been trying
Hard enough.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Enthrall in 54 words
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Serpentine line
Undulates across planes
Amidst the snowed patches of
Rugged terrain.
Spread below
To horizon
Of blue onto blue
This one planet
We share
All of us –
Me and you.
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
“Come on Daddy, let us go
To the great outdoors
And so,
Pack this rock in
And that, too.
I’m all set
And so should you!”
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Outdoors
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
From above the way
The clouds hold sway
As the Arctic clings on
To the day.
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
There’s naught much more needed
To fill the heart with song,
Than the Great Outdoors
With loved ones along.
For Sunday Stills: The great outdoors
Photo: Inbar Asif
She could be
Truly carefree
When she strolls
The fine edge
Of the sea.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Challenge: Carefree in 14 words
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