Photo: Yisca Freeman
What matters most
Are those we wrap
In loving arms
To keep from harm.
What matters most
Are those who hold
All future steps
Yet to unfold.
For Nancy Merrill’s Photo a week challenge
What Matters Most
Future
Beached Hopes
Photo: Atara Katz
In the soft curl of foam
In the rush of cool waves
She will beach
She will trench
And will lay
Out her hopes
That a future
Will come.
For the Wits End Photo Challenge: Four legged friends
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Behind Closed Doors
Photo: Inbar Asif
Decades shut
Behind closed shores
What old stories
Had you told
Of not so distant
Wars?
Weathered by
Time and lore
What future resides
Behind Cuba’s
Sealed doors?
For the Weekly Photo Challenge: Door closes
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Staired Succession
Photo: Philip Coons
Doors in corridors close
Even as others open
For the path no one sees
Goes around
Half again
In the climbing.
For dVerse School Days Challenge: Alphabet sestet
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Path Advice
Photo: Ofir Asif
In the deserts of life
When it seems that oases you’ve taken for granted
Have forgotten
Marked paths,
Don’t ignore painted signs
Of the flags of times past.
The direction you take may determine
If your very next steps
Lead to hope
Or end up being
Your last.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge
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A Global Warning
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson
They said it would get warm, but they didn’t say how quickly or how relentlessly. He thought it would take decades.
He was wrong.
Trees still foliaged but most other plants withered. Same for people.
It killed the young, old, weak, and callous. The talking heads had babbled about it before TV stopped. They couldn’t justify cooling the studios when the grid struggled to air-condition hospitals. Not that the latter did much good.
He sighed and retreated from the window. Ignored his daughter’s empty bed. They were warned. By the time they deigned to listen, it was already too late.
For the Friday Fictioneers Challenge
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Benevolent Hope
Photo Credit: Yael Yehuda
In a world
Where tyrants gobble power
By cruel dominance,
There whispers also
The small voice
Of kind-souled cognizance.
With hands that hold the weak
And hearts that see
The sorrow,
They will become the light by which
We’ll write a new tomorrow.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 10, 2018:
Benevolent
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Walk The Future
Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
Hold my hand
And we’ll go
Up the hill
As we sow
Seeds of light
For the thrill
Of just watching
You grow.
For The Sunday Stills Challenge: Future
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Make Reservation
Photo: Inbar Asif
Make any reservation
Resonate
With trust
So that holding
Onto
What can be
And what will
Come
Secures no doubts
Yet removes
No options
From the table
Save those
That have
Been found
Indigestible
To your
Heart
And mind.
For The Daily Post
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Recreate 101
Photo: Amitai Asif
Recreate not what shouldn’t have happened
Yet had
But what should have taken place
And hadn’t
Or not quite as planned,
The seeds of which
Hold promise
To what may truly be
Worth recreating
When time
Once more
Comes around.
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