Rows of Woe

August 7, 2018August 7, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Memoriam, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Auschwitz, Concentration Camps, Current affairs, fpj-photo-challenge, Hate, History, Holocaust, Photo Challenge, Photography, Speak up, Vote 5 Comments

Photo: Ofir Asif

For we owe

Them to know

How rows of woe

Not long ago

Came to show

What can grow

If we do not forgo

Those who kowtow

To the lowest of low.

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Row

Bereft Of Hope

August 5, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Be a voice, better future, Current affairs, hope, MerriamWebster, Resist, Sorrow, Speak up, Vote, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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If you feel bereft of hope

In view of those who lead

Not by honor

But deceit;

Hold on to the voice of people

Rising

To relieve

Those who cherish false and greed

From the path of harm

They have conceived.

Be strong

Even as you are now

Understandably

Bereaved.

For there will be better days

Ahead

Where heart

Over current swamp,

Succeeds.

Merriam-Webster’s word for August 5, 2018:

Bereft

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Un-Pacified

August 3, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Be a voice, Bullying, Cruelty, Current affairs, Exploitation, MerriamWebster, Propaganda, Racism, Speak up, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 3 Comments

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One cannot pacify hatred

By fueling more hate,

Just as violence will not be calmed

Via harming.

Arguments aren’t settled

When truths are shut up,

Nor can peace be made by

The war-glorifying.

There is no equality

While oppression is sought

And brutality cannot

Bring on healing.

So rallies where ‘greatness’

Is clothed in cruel acts

Breed not power nor awe

But disdain,

As leadership’s hubris is paid

By the vulnerable

Again and again.

Merriam-Webster’s word for August 3, 2018:

Pacify

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Silent No More

August 1, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: Asylum, Be a voice, Child trauma, Current affairs, empathy, End cruelty, Poetry, Put children first, Reunite every child, Sound of silence, Speak up 16 Comments

Photo: Dvora Freedman

In the restless nights

They walked

Silent in the desert

Stalked

While the prowlers

Rose to halt

And turn hope

To anguished fault.

But we’ll silent be

No more

For those who had been harmed

Before.

And we will raise our voice

To show

That cruelty we will not

Let grow.

For dVerse Poets: Sounds of Silence

Musket Madness

July 31, 2018July 31, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Current affairs, End violence, Guns, MerriamWebster, Speak up, Untraceable, Violence, Volatile, Weapons, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 2 Comments

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Plastic muskets laid bare

To the earth and the air

As rogue arms on a dare

Sought excuse to declare

Every day a warfare

Blood and death everywhere

By a print left to share

As weak minds to beware

Turn stale rage to nightmare

While those who ought be aware

Turn blind eye to despair

By their greed fast ensnared.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 31, 2018:

Musket

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Freedom’s Curfew

July 28, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Asylum, Be a voice, Child trauma, Children Behind Bars, Current affairs, Injustice, MerriamWebster, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 1 Comment

liberty bell PA Photo by mbell1975 on flickr

Photo: mbell1975 on flickr

As a bell tolls

Come dark,

May its sound be a reminder

Of the toll

Exacted from those whose steps

Are hidden,

Whose freedoms are

Forsaken,

And whose voices

Are silenced,

For no fault

But being

Born

Into hardship

And fleeing

Danger zones.

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

Curfew

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Do Not Be Reticent

July 27, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Professional Development, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, child abuse, Childhood trauma, Cruelty, Current affairs, Have a voice, Kidnapping, MerriamWebster, Speak up, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

Photo: AP / Gregory Bull

Do not be reticent

About the truth.

When stolen children

Cry

Deprived of trust

Of hope

Of warmth,

Those of us who have

A voice

Must use it,

For the helpless

Cannot.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 27, 2018:

Reticent

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Inchmeal by Inchmeal

July 26, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Baby steps, Current affairs, Have a voice, humanity, MerriamWebster, Persist, Resist, Transformation, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 4 Comments

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Inchmeal by inchmeal

We can reclaim

Lost sanity.

Small step by small step

We can restore

What this recent time had

Hammered in brutality.

The foundations are still there

Trusting rescue

Shaken but resistant.

Inchmeal by inchmeal

We can bring back home

Revive

Transform

The currently abandoned

Humanity.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 26, 2018:

Inchmeal

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Languid Lull

July 24, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Be The Change, Current affairs, Have a voice, Heat, hope, MerriamWebster, Summer, Vote, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

Photo: Dvora Freedman

In the endless, languid days of summer

When hubris and humidity nixes

Facts and kindness

Into haze,

Lays the promise of a fall soon coming

Where saner, cooler heads

May well usher in

Better days.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 24, 2018:

Languid

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Festinate Hope

July 22, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Corruption, Current affairs, End injustice, Have a voice, hope, Investigate, Make haste, MerriamWebster, Resist, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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May justice make haste

To reclaim what once graced

But has since been debased

By a swamp that laid waste

And all ethics replaced.

May the truth festinate

Removal of greed and hate

To restore facts misplaced

By those who greatness erased.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 22, 2018:

Festinate

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