Photo: Aviv Rozen-Zvi
Reaching high to the heavens
Rising up
To the sky
A single rose of remembrance
Captured by a
Child’s eye.
So we pause for the many
Hate had barreled
To die,
And remember the courage
Of all who
Violence defy.
Remembrance Rose
hope
Almost
Photo: Amitai Asif
Still they strive
Strain to grow
Stretch to touch
Yearning so.
Almost there
But not quite
Only five
Thousand years
Till they finally
Hold hands.
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Bereft Of Hope
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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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Rawson Rise
Rawson Lake; photo: Jack Ng
It was their last day by the lake. The weather was perfect and the air was so crisp it squeaked. She inhaled deeply, savoring every moment. By that time tomorrow she’d be stuck in rush-hour traffic.
“See?” he pointed. “Even wood can’t keep its head above water at some point.”
She snuck a hand into his and squeezed. She wished she could give him sips of this place during what was to come. She wished she could tell him this round wouldn’t be as difficult as the ones before. That this one would work. She didn’t know if to hope or fear it being the last. It shattered her that she no longer knew what he hoped for.
She gathered the light around her, kissed his baldness, and rose to stand.
“For now, my love, let’s float.”
For What Pegman Saw: Rawson Lake Canada
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Tempestuous Times
Photo: cmurrey, Flickr
“These are tempestuous times,” she said
And her strong hands wrung the laundered sheets
To squeeze out suds
As she would want
To push out infiltrated evil.
“I’ve seen hardship before,” she stirred
The linens
In the boiling vat,
Simmering the despair
Till it foamed and evaporated
Into bleached hope.
“Wrong does not last,” she rinsed
And wrung
And shook
And hung
The wash
Till it fluttered
Free
To dry,
Only the barest of stains
Still visible
In the sun.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 30, 2018:
Tempestuous
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Behemoth
Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
The sheer size of injustice
May derail many a
Courage,
But the sure footed will know
There’s much room to
Encourage,
For heft can usurp power
But does not need mean
Might,
When the small but the many
Can prove stronger in a
Fight.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 25, 2018:
Behemoth
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Languid Lull
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
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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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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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Pyrotechnical Prayer
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May you light the sky
With color
Not with pain.
May you fill all hearts
With freedom
Not disdain.
May the booms resound
Within
To offer hope.
As the boons of
Independence
Widen scope.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 4, 2018:
Pyrotechnics
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