Languid Lull

July 24, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Be The Change, Current affairs, Have a voice, Heat, hope, MerriamWebster, Summer, Vote, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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In the endless, languid days of summer

When hubris and humidity nixes

Facts and kindness

Into haze,

Lays the promise of a fall soon coming

Where saner, cooler heads

May well usher in

Better days.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 24, 2018:

Languid

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Apparatchik Acolyte

July 21, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Affiliation, Choice, Cruelty, Current affairs, humanity, Life Lessons, MerriamWebster, Morality, Warning, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

Spine; Gray Henry 1918

Beware of being blinded

By the application

Of flattery

(Or use of abuse)

To gain influence

For harm.

For if you do turn into

A servile acolyte

There is no end

To the baser motives

That you, too, will

Become.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 21, 2018:

Acolyte

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Obviated Healing

July 14, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, child abuse, Childhood trauma, Cruelty, Current affairs, MerriamWebster, Reunification, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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If I could just forestall the suffering

Of little ones

Locked by a heartless bind

And prevented even from the comfort

Of their parents’ loving arms.

If I could somehow stave off

Their sorrow

And their helpless rage

For what should never have been made

Reality

At their tender age.

If only we all raised our voices

And demanded cruelty stop,

Maybe those who caused the pain

And obviate the healing

Will make way

For better others

Who would lead not by agony

But hope.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 14, 2018:

Obviate

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Transmogrify

July 9, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Absurd, Abuse of power, Current affairs, MerriamWebster, Misinformation, Propaganda, Transmogrify, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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If you disfigure truth

So far that

Facts no longer

Recognize their own face

In your mirror,

You have transgressed

Beyond white lies

To become

A grotesque interferer.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 9, 2018:

Transmogrify

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Sophistry’s Secret

July 6, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Current affairs, Deceit, Fake News, Have a voice, Lies, MerriamWebster, Misleading, Truth, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 2 Comments

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Once deception gains hold

And defended

As gold

It becomes a routine

For mis-truths

To be sold.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 6, 2018:

Sophistry

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Regardless

July 3, 2018July 3, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Change, Current affairs, History, hope, Injustice, MerriamWebster, Possibility, Regardless, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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Despite it all, she knew

It was not meant to be this way,

Bereft of tether.

Despite it all, she understood

Wrong won’t hold sway

Forever.

So despite it all, she prayed

Easier breaths will soon be drawn

Together.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 3, 2018:

Regardless

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Route To Kaput

June 26, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Be a voice, Current affairs, History, humanity, Leadership, MerriamWebster, Morality, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

train junction SouthAfrica Pinterest CarryMills

Photo: Pinterest, Carrie Miles

Olden times come to rise

Where the heartless devise

Righteousness to brutalize

Those they dehumanize.

An unwise move, time shows

For a smart person knows

That even one group maligned

Cracks open fault lines

In a stroke that would put

A reign on path to kaput.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 26, 2018:

Kaput

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Amortize

June 25, 2018June 26, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Bullying, Current affairs, History, Human Rights, MerriamWebster, Racism, Value, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay, WWII Leave a comment

never again poland

Allow persons in power

To amortize the legitimacy of those

They term ‘others,’

And the weak will fall behind them,

Eager to believe themselves

More worthy

Than most.

They’d be wrong, of course, for

They are not.

Because none who are truly strong

And deserving of honor

Would ever devalue others

Nor would they sit back as

Inhumanity

Takes hold.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 25, 2018:

Amortize

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Effigial Critique

June 24, 2018June 24, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Current affairs, Dictator, History, Human Rights, Tryanny, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

(Photo: Jodi Hill for Sports Illustrated)

If it’s fame that you seek

Know how history speaks

Of tyranny’s recognition

Turning infamy

And

Effigial critique.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 24, 2018:

Effigy

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Vanquish Voracity

June 21, 2018June 21, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Asylum, Child Development, Current affairs, humanity, Leadership, MerriamWebster, Nurturing, Trauma, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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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