Photo: Dvora Freedman
In places too many
On this one blue-green ball,
Children haul
More than the weight of firewood
On their backs,
Big or small.
Sorrow, loss, illness, agony
Needs unmet
Unheard calls …
Yet they are all
Our children,
Their pain is our
Shortfall.
They are worthy of better:
In the now
For the future
For humanity’s long haul.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
We all want to be cherished,
To be known by our name.
But like flowers in meadows,
We’re alike, not the same.
It does not do to lump us
Identical, in one frame.
For like leaves of a tree,
We’re alike, not the same.
Varied hopes, many wishes,
Different dreams of acclaim.
Like the shells on a shore,
We’re alike, not the same.
Each of us has the power,
To bring hope or bring shame.
Pick just one of us too early,
And the world’s never the same.
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Photo: Inbar Asif
Branch out
Of your comfort zone.
Go out on a limb
To offer someone else
An arm to hold
A place to perch
Above the fray
And find
Some measure
Of peace.
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Photo: L.B.
As the sun
Melts the sand
Sprawls light on
Waves to ground
May the warmth
And the sound
Weave your soul
Astral gowns.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
There are eons of old
Set in stone
Pressed in rock.
Do you hear them
Or not
Do you know
What you’re told
Can you feel part of all
That had gone
And which may
Or may not
Come along
To live on?
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Photo credit: Vito Perrini
May the percussion of your heart
Beat not staccato in your core
But breathe legato in your soul
To sing vibrato to your whole.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
Every day I am reminded
How very partial I am
To the multitudes of
Living things
Upon this Earth.
They are all part of me
Just as I am part of all.
You see,
Our air has been
A zillion times recycled
Through innumerable breaths.
Each drop of water has been
In every ocean
Swam in every river
Rained on every land.
Molecules have merged into our very selves
From all that is around us.
Life has birthed and died and birthed
Repeatedly
So many times
That we are indeed
Essentially
Not just of one planet
But all One.
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Photo: Atara Katz
Seek not acclaim
But accord
Not praise
But partaking
Not applause
But appraisal
Not homage
But homecoming.
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Lighted path (Photo credit: unknown)
There’s ennobled a path
For each person
Who strives
To live life
Reverently enough
To keep all
Dignified.
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An Incoming Storm
Organize
To call hate by its name.
Mobilize
To tamp it with the fact:
That we all are equal
All human
All the same.
Organize
To nip the flames of violence
By speaking up
For truth.
Assemble
Not in fire
But in numbers
Old and youth.
Organize
To let terror have no place
It has no valid
Salute.
Marshal
Not guns or clubs
But tolerance
It is the only nationality
The one acceptable
Route.
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