Lambaste Injustice

June 30, 2018June 30, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Asylum, Be the voice, Current affairs, MerriamWebster, Protect, Protest, Refugees, Resist, Seeking help, Speak up, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda; NYC

There are times when to pummel

A wrongness with words

Is a must.

If another is silenced

And their voice thrown

To dust,

Then lambasting the cruelty

Is the way to be

Just.

(Note: Photo taken today at the Families Belong Together March in NYC)

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 30, 2018:

Lambaste

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A Time’s Tome

June 29, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Civil duty, Current affairs, Have a voice, History, Investigation, Justice, MerriamWebster, Obsruction, Truth, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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There are tales in the making

Some so long, one might fear

Hope will drown in the swamps

Where the truth disappears.

But other tomes are unfolding

That the soul aches to hear:

Of corruption that ended

As justice grew near.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 29, 2018:

Tome

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Ostensible Justice

June 28, 2018June 28, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Bait and Switch, Current affairs, Deceit, Justice, MerriamWebster, Standards, Supreme Court, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

Photo: Andre Simms

When a rule was explained

As one meant to give voice

But abandoned

As soon

As one snatched up their choice,

Don’t be fooled to believe

It was done in good faith

For ostensible standards

Prove hypocrisy’s face.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 28, 2018:

Ostensible

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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

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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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Solstice Supplication

June 21, 2018June 21, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Be The Change, blessing, Current affairs, hope, Interconnectedness, light, Poetry, summer solstice Leave a comment

Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev

Light stretches

On this day

To hold a hope

For those beset

By darkness.

May golden rays

Wrap hugs

Around the tears

At a world’s

Tipping point.

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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Balmy Times

June 20, 2018June 20, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Asylum, Camps, Current affairs, Desert, Enough, First Do No Harm, History, Trauma, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

Photo: Amitai Asif

May the scorch of

Arid hearts

And blazing sun,

Make way for kinder, saner

Passage

To lead humanity through

Balmy times.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 20, 2018:

Balmy

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Do Not Quail

June 19, 2018June 19, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Activism, Current affairs, Developmental Trauma, families, Keeping children safe, Policy, Protect, Trauma, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 2 Comments

Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev

When powerful

Pound podiums

With rabid lies

To sow mistrust,

Don’t falter

From the facts

Of what is wrong

And what is right.

Don’t quail before

Deep cruelty

That shreds your heart

To cries.

Step forth

For those who have no voice,

Be brave

And mobilize.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 19, 2018:

Quail

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