Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Out of place
Out of time
As the half-hour
Chimes
Periods bend
And history glides
In past with present
Side by side.
For Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge
Time Travel
History
History’s Layers
Photo: Amitai Asif
Layered rock
Cracks and rifts
Blackened hearths
Tribes adrift
Weight of time
Overhead
Stories told
But not dead.
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Shuttered Way
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Old way down stony hill
Many shutters hold still.
Do aged walls
Yet recall
What in past time rang through:
“Gardez l’eau, Gardez l’eau…”?
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Balmy Times
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
This post continues the blogging challenge in which Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, serves as inspiration a-la the “Daily Prompt.”
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Pretty in Pink
Persian Cyclamen; Photo: Atara Katz
Don’t be fooled by the blush
Or swan’s head
In a bow
Strength does not always show
But do not try to
Chow
There is more to this beauty
Than what meets
The eye
Even if in first glance
She appears to be
Shy.
Fun Fact: The tuber of this flower is semi-poisonous. Fishermen would grate it, mix it with water and lime, and sprinkle the mixture in lakes and ponds to stun the fish so they would rise to the surface to be collected.
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Wrong Tracks
Photo: Ofir Asif
There is harm in the air
Infants caged
Children scammed,
There are guards
Bearing guns
Tearing babies from arms.
Those before us who fought
For the hunted, the hurt
Weep in graves
As the country they served
Mutates to enact
Inhumane acts
On the wrong tracks.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Trains and Tracks
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Out Of Place
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Surely all would admit
Something here does not fit
King or not
No one ought
To require this bed
For their camped royal head.
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Roseate
Photo: Philip Coons
Optimistic in nature
Does not mean roseate
For reality may
Introduce caveat
Of the need to remember
Many times of ill fate
While never forgetting
The good we can create.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 10, 2018:
Roseate
This post continues the blogging challenge in which Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, serves as inspiration a-la the “Daily Prompt.”
Want to join me? Feel free to link to this post on your blog, and/or post a link to your blogpost in the comment section below so others can enjoy it, too. Poetry, photography, short stories, anecdotes: Go for it!
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Broken Whole
Photo: Atara Katz
As the cracked places show
Marks of toil
Disavowed
And the grooves of grain passed
Whisper tales of
Repast
Broken pieces reflect
Wholeness more than
Regret.
For The Daily Post
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In Memorial
Photo: Bugler.com
As salutes recoil
And bugles call
May hearts recall
The arms emptied
And the lives ended
For freedoms defended
As sorrows entwine
With honor defined.
For The Daily Post
Na'ama Yehuda 
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