
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
The birds spiral
‘Round the spire
And the bells peal
Half and whole,
As the sky paints blue
Horizons
In a neighborhood
For all.
For the Lens-Artist Challenge: Around the neighborhood

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
The birds spiral
‘Round the spire
And the bells peal
Half and whole,
As the sky paints blue
Horizons
In a neighborhood
For all.
For the Lens-Artist Challenge: Around the neighborhood

Photo: Dikla Nachmias
When someone needs,
May you be there
May you be with.
When it is you who needs,
May someone be there for you
To be with.

Maybe it is healing
And the saving of lives,
Or the wonder of teaching
And forming young minds.
Maybe it is farming
To nourish and grow,
Or building the homes
For the shelter we know.
Maybe it is writing
Putting words to the page,
Or any vocation
That forms our age.
May it be that whatever
Strums your soul, fills your need
I pray that you find it
And its call you will heed.
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Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Light stretches
On this day
To hold a hope
For those beset
By darkness.
May golden rays
Wrap hugs
Around the tears
At a world’s
Tipping point.

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
There’s a path in the park
Lined by mulch from trees past
So that every step presses
What had grown,
What won’t last.

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
It can spread.
It can blight.
It can seek a new host
To infect
With malaise.
But the ill
Need not creep
Onto me
Onto thy.
We can rise
Above rudeness.
Inoculate
Against hate.
We can choose to
Remain
Stubbornly
Humane.
For The Daily Post

Photo: Ofir Asif
In the lineage of eras
Where fossils yet live
Ancestry beyond measure
Offers paths to believe.
Time unfolds on itself
Memories seek a reprieve
As humble roots we all share
Still continue to give.
For The Daily Post

Photo: Amitai Asif
Tree by tree
It becomes.
Acorns
Saplings
Alder
Gum.
Branch by branch
Green and dun.
Creepers
Leaners
Holders on.
A woodland
Is more than its
Sum.
For The Daily Post

Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
Partake in all that
Fills your heart
And makes your spirit
Sing.
In all that makes
This world
Your home
And offers
Hope
To bring.
For The Daily Post

Photo: Dvora Freedman
Live your life
Alongside
Everything
That matters.
Let light flow
In lines parallel
To heart
And mind.
We are all of us
One of a kind,
All singular
In presence.
Yet we are none of us
An isolation,
None free from impact
On what there is
And all that will become.
May we ride
This shared Earth
Side by side.
May we align
Our spirit
To be
Kind.
For The Daily Post
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