Photo: Amitai Asif
There is water
For the thirsty
Even
In the desert,
Where heart and hand
Were put to work
With foresight of what
Must be done,
To hold
What would otherwise
Be lost
To shifting sands
And blazing sun.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Manmade
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
If you’re looking for a cuppa’
Look no furtha’
Than this shop’s
Myriad options for a drop!
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Glasses, Cups, etc
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Speed of passage
Matched
By change
Of time.
A City moment
Snatched
By yellow
In its
Prime.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Yellow
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
The gray marble
Supports
With leisured rich
Array
The carved squares
And the luxuriating
Pebbled
Head in
Golden display.
Note: The photo was taken at Wat Pho, The Temple of the Reclining Buddha, in Bangkok, Thailand. The pebbled bits represent a small part of the ‘hair’ of the massive Buddha statue. The textures and contrasts of the surfaces were what caught my eye and so the angle of the photo is deliberately ambiguous.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Textures
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
As they fly
Passing by
Tumbling through
Loops of sky
To hoot and cry,
They spend the day
Waving high
To Earth defy
As some shake heads
Oh my, oh my
And wonder why…
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Note: These photos are from Canada’s “Wonderland” amusement park in Vaughn, where my family spent a day this past July, high flying and earth-defying while I mostly did the photo-taking and oh-my-why’ing. … 😉 (In the photo above, they are in the three short horizontal lines in free fall on the vertical line, a moment before being turned upside down and sideways and goodness knows what else). It was a delightful day all around (pun?) till I got on one kiddie ride in the afternoon … Now, if you’re into these contraptions, that place is an all out-human-milkshake inventive park, just be warned and don’t be fooled by the miniature height requirements: they start them early and loop-di-doop-whoop-loop even those rides meant for preschoolers. …
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Tourism
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles, curves and arches
Photo: Amitai Asif
In the middle of the desert
Where the dirt stretches far,
Hope ripples atop a small
Opaque reservoir,
That come night reflects
Heaven’s traveling star.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rectangles and Squares
Photo: Ofir Asif
“Do we have to?”
“For the hundredth time … yes, we do!”
“But no one else is going!”
“No one else will be around for long.”
She felt his pouting through the ground. His clomping had a rhythm for each mood, and this one spelled: I’m thinking of an answer to refute you. She counted his foot-beats and waited. Never took more than a minute, with this kind.
“So Noah says.”
She couldn’t help but smile at his predictability. “So he does.”
His tetchy steps continued, unconvinced.
She said nothing but upped their pace a bit. It wouldn’t do to be late for this one. They cleared the lee of a dune and a gust of wind blew sand into their faces. She shook her head to clear it from her ears.
“And you believe him?”
At that she paused and turned her head toward him. “I’d rather believe him than perish.”
“But look!” He bellowed, and if she hadn’t known him well she would’ve missed the fear under the notes of clear frustration. “There’s not a drop around.”
She sighed. For all her projected certainty, he was voicing the doubts she did not let herself express. The blue skies mocked her loyalty, and the parched ground billowed dusty clouds as proof of the utter lunacy of leaving the herd to follow some two-legged prophet and his nightmare.
And yet, her own dreams had been filled with thunder. She’d wake startled, breathless with the premonition of a fruitless escape from tumbling mud that rose above the highest dune and all the way to the horizon and beyond.
She breathed and chewed her cud a moment before resuming her walking. She’d rather be a fool who lives. Especially with the calf that she could feel kicking in her womb.
“Noah said he’ll have fresh hay and all the food and water we can stomach,” she cajoled.
“Alfalfa, too?”
She grunted her assent along with her amusement. Her mate had always been partial to alfalfa, and the rare treat’s season had long passed.
“He promised some of that, yes. And barrel-loads of dates.”
His footfalls overtook hers, excited now. “Dates?! Why didn’t you say that sooner? Stop dawdling and pick up your feet! How much farther to that ark, you said?”
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Two
Photo: Amitai Asif
One man.
One sail.
One boat.
One day.
The rock of waves
Holding a sway,
He grasps the bar
Through misty spray,
As mountains loom
In white and gray.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: One
Photo: Ofir Asif
There are none here more pleased
Than this moth
At her ease.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Smiles
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
tucked away in the mountains
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