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She strained
Against walls which
Heaved
About her.
She tensed limbs and
Tucked her
Chin
Fighting for a
Purchase
Around her.
And still the world
Convulsed.
Impossible in
Pressure.
Till sudden
Light.
A gasp of cold
As air
Rushed
Into lungs
To life her.
For dVerse quadrille poetry challenge of: gasp in 44 words
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Let the power
Of breath
Churn the air
Fill the earth.
Let the wind
Fill your sails
As you learn
To exhale.
Let the future
Flow clear
And may hope
Draw you near.
Photo: Atara Katz
If you heed
Your heart’s need
To silence
The fretting discord
That bestrewed your soul,
You’ll hear
The gentle chime
Of each breath
Reverberating
Its solitary call.
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Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Life can happen in the shallows
Of the day to day
In the ebb and flow
Of small steps
On wet sand
Of tidy tides
And ripples
Lapping breaths
And sighs
Of surf.
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A moment in time (Photo: Atara Katz)
In the pause
Between the breath in
And breath out
There’s a moment
In time
Of
Eternity
Slowed,
All movements
Frozen,
Thawed,
Life
Buoyed.
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Take a breath in the streaming rays
Feel the light fill up your days
Know the sun
The dappled warmth
Sense the earth supporting
verdant growth
Hear the wind whisper stories to the grass, the fronds, the palms
and
Find the space that holds your heart inside your calm.
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Let the breathing of the surf clear through you
all the pebbles of despair
or grief.
Let the breathing of the surf refill you
with the rhythm of creation
and relief.
Let the breath of waves remind you
how your own heart beats one in
one out,
to allow the good to flow within you
and the ugly
to retreat
no more about.
Take a moment.
Take a breath.
Find your own heart’s place,
Your own soul’s space.
Today,
find a point of stillness:
brief, but precious
slight, but full
small, but luminously real.
Find a point stillness
in the balance of all things
between the breathing out
and breathing in.
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