Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Take your time
As you climb.
Hold the rail.
Breathe in. Exhale.
On the stair way
Of life
Steps of joy
Steps of strife.
Both the rise
And descent
Are energies
Quite well spent,
As long as your heart
Can extend
To see a tad
‘Round the bend.
For the Which Way Challenge
Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
Make a splash
Face the turmoil
Don’t let the surf
Turn you back.
Hold on tight
To your courage
Let waves become
Your heart’s soundtrack.
For the Lens Artists Photo Challenge: Splash
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Thankful still for life’s living
Thankful still
For the hope
That each breath that’s drawn in
Can begin
And can bring.
Thankful still, if hadn’t always
For the ebb
And the flow
Of small joys and big sorrows
As they come
And they go
As we grow
And we know.
For the Sunday Stills Challenge: Thankful
Photo: Philip Coons
In a park, on a lawn, by a
Trail
This board aimless wander
Curtails,
And the question it
Raises
Brings along varied
Phrases.
What would your heart
Assign
If you saw such a
Sign?
For Kammie’s Oddball Challenge
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Walking along
Paths of life,
Stop to sip
Pause to laugh.
Make small moments
Of cool calm,
Find someone
To lean on.
Take a rest
Take the air,
Live well through
Time’s wear and tear.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: drinks
Photo: Karen Forte
Row ahead
On the water
Toward shores
Yet to tread.
Hold on to
Oars that matter
To kind oaths
You have pledged.
Row abreast
With the others
Who ride forth
On life’s thread.
Photo: S. Asif
In the corner of sunlight
And painted leaves dancing bright
Sparkle water
And bridges
Flowing through
Life’s insight.
For A Photo a Week Challenge: From the Back
“How did I get here? Too many times of the world painting life in bleak pain and despair,” her wrinkled hand passed over a face lined with history and sorrow.
I looked down at my own hands, fingers marked with blots of ink. I never managed to learn how to hold writing implements far enough from the tip.
Mrs. Glendale leaned forward and her hand touched my knee. The attendant didn’t flinch but I held my breath and wondered, again, what made me choose the asylum for the criminally insane for my project.
“Whatever happens, child,” she whispered, “remember it is best for your heart to brandish hope, not revenge.”
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
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: Amitai Asif
May the wind
Fill your sail,
May your path
Never fail,
May you be spared
Facing gale
Or travail
And may good fortune
Prevail.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Wind
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