Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Draw a line in the water
To hold a boundary
For speed,
Where the motors
Rush inward,
For horizon
To meet.
Float a line strung together
Of what floats
And won’t sink,
So you can
After sunset
Draw it home
And night
Concede.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: In or on the water
Photo: Toni Hadi
He was born without home
And no prospect of more
But his adorability-factor
Ensured
He’d capture good hearts
Galore!
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Cute factor
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
For the gate from the old
Must stand guard
Not by sword
But to hold
Off the passage of years
So the lessons of past
May find ways to
Be cast.
For Cee’s Black &White Photo Challenge: Fences and Gates
Photo: Philip Coons
Among murals I
Would get
No prize for
Over talent,
But on this wall
I still get smiles
(And tissues for my
Exhalant …)
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Murals
Photo via Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
In the moments when your eyes
Meet
Under canopies of cloth
Or sun
Or stars,
And the world recedes to
Nothing but
Who the both of you
Are,
When your
Union
Seals with
Promise
Ringed with hopes and tender
Kiss,
May you both know
That you do
And that your love
Can nurture
Bliss.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Tender moments
Photo: Atara Katz
Not quite certain if it
Will be able to hold
The weight
Of tired swimmers,
Still it waits,
A little lopsided
And more than a tad
Tired
Itself.
For Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Isolated objects
Photo: Inge Vandormael
Where Broadway
Meets fifth
In triangular happenstance,
Stands a Beaux-Arts building
That Flat-Ironed
A vertical Palazzo
Into a steel framed
Renaissance.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo: Made by humans
Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
Stretch above
To where the flapping
Propels you farther
On the breeze.
From there to see
The light retreating
Over Earth’s curve
At day’s reprieve.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo challenge: In the distance
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
There’s little possible
Perspective
For how to scale
The size of feet
That for so many
Will not fit
In anyone’s shoes
Ever
Not before
Not since.
Trivia note: The photo above is a detail of the Reclining Buddha in Wat Pho Temple in Bangkok, Thailand (also known as “Temple of the Reclining Buddha” or Wat Phra Chetuphon). The giant Buddha measures 46 meters (over 150 feet) long, 15 meters (almost 50 feet) high, and is covered in gold leaf. The soles of the feet (depicted in the photo above) and the eyes are intricately carved with mother of pearl. The soles of the feet inscribe the 108 holy characteristics of the true Buddha, in both Chinese and Indian styles. The 20 acres of the temple complex also contains over a 1000 Buddha images, many tracing back centuries.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Unusual perspective
Photo: Amitai Asif
Off they go
With the harp
And the sounds
In their hearts.
Off they go
To work hard
And music’s soul
To impart.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Music
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