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The sun will warm
Again
Or far
Too hot.
The water that sustains
Will flood
Again
Or not.
The tenet that prevails
Remains:
This magic of a planet
To protect
We ought,
Or an ultimatum
Spurred by greed
With life as
Afterthought,
Will render what we
Know
And what we for our
Children hoped,
Into a disaster
We had let be
Bought.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Ultimatum in 62 words
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Let the power
Of breath
Churn the air
Fill the earth.
Let the wind
Fill your sails
As you learn
To exhale.
Let the future
Flow clear
And may hope
Draw you near.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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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