Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Out of place
Out of time
As the half-hour
Chimes
Periods bend
And history glides
In past with present
Side by side.
For Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge
Time Travel
Writing
Coniston Choice
Photo: www.lakedistrict.gov.uk
She shrugged her macintosh off to use as ground cover before lowering herself gingerly. She drove two hours to get here and her hip still protested anything less cushioned than her bed, let alone damp gravel. Still, walking in the fresh air was good for her, the doctor said.
Didn’t say where she had to do that walking, and Norm was no longer around to object. He’d been terrified of flying, worried about trains, sea-sick on boats, wary around cars. Poor Norm. She couldn’t blame him. Not after what he’d gone through during the war.
Made for dreary holidays, though.
Not anymore.
She gazed at the lake, took a deep breath, and pulled the folded papers out of her pocket: The unsigned bill of sale for the house; the travel agent’s brochure for the round-the-world ticket.
For What Pegman Saw: Coniston Water Lake District
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History’s Layers
Photo: Amitai Asif
Layered rock
Cracks and rifts
Blackened hearths
Tribes adrift
Weight of time
Overhead
Stories told
But not dead.
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Skirl a Tune
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Skirl a tune
Blow the pipes
Upon Highlands’
Tall banks.
Through deep lochs
And rocky lakes
May beauty keep
Your soul awake.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 23, 2018:
Skirl
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Shuttered Way
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Old way down stony hill
Many shutters hold still.
Do aged walls
Yet recall
What in past time rang through:
“Gardez l’eau, Gardez l’eau…”?
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Notorious
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
When you know how stress
Rewires
Little ones’ brains
To lifelong pain,
You mark yourself ever
Notorious
When you cruelly
Add
To their wounding
Day and again.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 22, 2018:
Notorious
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Squirreled
Photo: Inbar Asif
In the deep chill of winter
It got caught en route
To a squirreled away
Acorn nuts loot.
Dedicated with love to my Southern Hemisphere friends, on this solstice day.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
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Solstice Supplication
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Light stretches
On this day
To hold a hope
For those beset
By darkness.
May golden rays
Wrap hugs
Around the tears
At a world’s
Tipping point.
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Vanquish Voracity
Photo: Ofir Asif
May the eager seek the good
More than they crave
The rush of
Harming.
May the powerful remember
How no honor lies
In deliberately
Alarming.
Let satiety be reached
Not by cruelty
But with love.
So that children can sleep safely
In the arms of those
They love.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 21, 2018:
Voracity
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Sea Squill Sentry
Sea Squill ; Photo: Atara Katz
Standing sentry ‘afore
Greenery finds a path
It heralds end of summer
As dry days’
Aftermath.
Rising tall
It dares bloom
When most others will not,
Drawing water with roots
That reach deeper
Than most.
Fun facts: The Sea Squill (Urginea Maritimia) has large bulbs that average 8 inches (20 centimeters) across, and strong roots that reach depths of 14 feet (4 meters) below ground, and can snake their way into narrow cracks in rocks, widening the cracks and ‘hueing’ through the rock to get to moisture. The roots are so difficult to dislodge that ancient farmers would plant rows of Sea Squill at the edges of their fields and those were considered a permanent boundary marker. The flowering spears of the plant reach up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) in height and carry 200-300 flowers. Many parts of the plant are poisonous but the bulb also holds medicinal qualities similar to digoxin.
Na'ama Yehuda 
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