Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
In these hands
Is held the future,
Made of blooms
That kept their oath.
In these hands
Is held the fruit of
Sun’s long labor,
Fed by rain
And nature’s growth.
In these hands
Is cupped the sweet taste
Of confection,
And the marvel
That is bounty
And is beauty
And is both.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Hands
Photo: Atara Katz
Listen up
Little fluff
There’ll be no mischief
And stuff.
Best make sure
That you stay
In the shallows,
If you don’t
Wish to meet
Claws as gallows.
There will be no
Dissent
Till wings let you
Ascend.
So since you are yet
To create
Actual feathers,
You will heed
Pond-time rules
By your elders.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Feathers
Photo: Dvora Freedman
There are stories,
In there,
Behind the dark irises’
Glare.
More than words,
Being said,
With her piercing eyes
Instead.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Eyes
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Gather ’round the rocks
As daylight lingers
Onto land,
And sunlight’s fingers
Tickle children
In windowed shade
And sun.
Gather ’round the City’s park
To frolic
As Spring comes,
And as the promise
Of green growth
Comes closer
Dawn by dawn.
(While today is the Spring Equinox, the photo itself is more promise than reality … for the trees in Central Park are yet to bud and green, but soon they will … and so the photo holds a sight near to be seen …)
For Wits-Ends Weekly Photo Challenge: Gatherings
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Shadows
Photo: Philip Coons
I see a pattern
In these stairs:
In carpets’ weave
In craft-men’s squares,
In how the landings
Spin and dip,
With railings poised
To let hands grip,
In void that carries
Gaze to floor,
And legs that wish
To climb no more.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Patterns
Photo: Amitai Asif
Norway fjord
Smooth as glass
Flowing cold
Through mountains’ pass.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Smooth
Photo: Inbar Asif
From aqua blue
To deep hue
The ocean runs
Deeply through
The soul that breathes
In me and you.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Color of choice
Photo: Dvora Freedman
Rise above
Hardship’s fray
In gentle curls
Of delicate
Pink,
And an underbelly
Of powerful
Orange
Smelted from the
Brink.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Orange and Pink
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
In the mood for some tea?
Come along here with me.
There are pooch pots
And kitsch pots
Elephant tea pot, too.
There’s a cow,
There are cats,
Which will be right for you?
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Rainbow colors
Photo: Karen Forte
In middle school the uniforms
Were yellow tops and blue skirts
For the girls,
Yellow tops and blue slacks
For the boys.
The hue of yellow
In the official
Button downs,
Was a pale shade that made
Even the ruddy
Cheeks of children
Wash out
In the sun.
I used to think perhaps
This was the only color
Merchants had on overstock
When the school had first opened:
A fabric rescued
After years of fade brought on
By being forgotten
By everyone.
Oh, it was a decent enough school,
With friends I have kept
In touch with since the
Beginning of Sixth Grade.
It was the yellow hue
That had me blue.
Decades passed
And while
The beauty and the range
Of it in nature
Does indeed move me to tears,
I’m yet to own
A yellow garment
Even after
All these years.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Blue and Yellow
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