Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
Put you best foot
Forward,
No matter what your size
Or tread.
Put your best foot
Forward,
Let no one fill your soul
With dread.
Put your best foot
Forward,
And follow both your heart
And head.
Put your best foot
Forward,
So you can find your path
Ahead.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Feet or legs
Photo: Amitai Asif
Blessed be the heat
Of fire
Fed by wood
That held on
To the driven strength of home.
Let air
Breathe through
The flames
That will allow warmth
To the water
While the earth
Hammocks your body
And your eyes
Address heaven’s stairs.
For the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Five Elements
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
As you descend toward the shore
You see
The water
Lapping
At the edges
Of what will
In a moment be
The touchdown to your welcome home.
Note: This photo was taken last month, on a cellphone, from behind the thick windows of a Boeing 787 on approach to JFK (shadow of the aircraft on the water).
For Travel With Intent’s One Word Sunday: Aerial
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Look, Mama! Look at this!
Can you believe how high?!
I did the whole thing by myself
And I will tell you why:
It is the tallest building king
That ever touched the sky,
And I will build it up again
Each time someone walks by.
For Friday Foto Fun: Construction
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Their small heads
Rise proud
In mid-trail.
Delicate and fierce
They stretch their
Full miniature scale.
The risk they take
Of being
Stepped on,
Dwarfed by delicious
Access
To sun.
For the Lens-Artist Weekly Photo Challenge: Delicate
She planned every detail.
The dress. The cake. The decorations.
What games to play. Who to invite. The invitations.
She fretted over treats and props. The seating arrangement.
The day dawned bright. The weather fair.
The flowers gifted blooms. Butterflies came to visit.
The cake turned out close to perfect.
The dress fit well. Even her hair cooperated.
She breathed it in.
She smiled.
She waited.
The only thing she did not foresee
Was no one showing up,
And only her mama there
To wrap a scarf around her eyes
To hide the tears
As she pinned the donkey.
Note: Dedicated to all the children whose parties turn to pain. To those who are all too often left invisible due to social awkwardness, adversity, disabilities visible and invisible, social isolation, bullying, and the myriad ways indifference (let alone direct cruelty) can a child’s soul maim.
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
In these hands
Is held the future,
Made of blooms
That kept their oath.
In these hands
Is held the fruit of
Sun’s long labor,
Fed by rain
And nature’s growth.
In these hands
Is cupped the sweet taste
Of confection,
And the marvel
That is bounty
And is beauty
And is both.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Hands
Photo: Ofir Asif
Wider than the wildest view
It spans
The soul
To draw in breath
And nourish you.
For Frank’s Tuesday Photo Challenge: Vista
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
If a hollowing sorrow
Catches your breath in a
Hold
And then folds
Like a snail
Into what can’t
Be told …
Let the richness
Of you
Spread like gold
From a long ago story
Foretold,
Like the waves’
Gentle touch
On a morning’s
Threshold.
For dVerse’s quadrille challenge: Rich
Photo: Amitai Asif
If you look into the pond, you’ll see
The sky reflected,
The white clouds,
The world drenched in the beauty
Of clear water
On firm ground.
But if you’ll turn your head
From pond-life
And look around
And up
Onto the land and sky,
You will see the real world
In its worry,
In its glory,
So much bigger,
Spinning by.
For the Friday Fun prompt: Reflections
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