(Photo: Ray Fragapane on Unsplash)
They didn’t know then
Or still
What track life will
Bring.
Yet they hold on,
By bootstraps
Hoping
For just enough breath with which to
Sing,
To the sun
That would rise,
To the hope
That would
Cling.
Till dawn will
Another story
String.
For dVerse Quadrille Poetry challenge
She always knew the road could end.
Rickety throughout, it got almost impassable in places. It was a folly, she’d been told. A fool’s errand. Doomed to fail.
The way had never been fully completed, quite possibly never fully traversed. So many had abandoned it that there would be no rest stops, no soft places to lay one’s head.
Indeed, each step confirmed the lack of maintenance.
Still, it was her path to take, her journey to attempt.
And when she faced the maw, the utter void of all support, she knew.
She could turn back.
Or she could leap.
For Rochelle‘s Friday Fictioneers
Photo Prompt: © Alicia Jamtaas
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Some jump out,
Intent on being
Captured
By the lens,
The center
Of focused
Attention,
While others
Fade delicately
Into the blurry
Background
To observe,
Potentially
Just as content.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Focus
She could go up
Or down
On the path
Into town.
There the low road
Awaited,
Full of snarls and
outdated.
Or she could take
The high
With its twists,
Turns,
And sighs.
She could go up
Or down
On the path
Into town.
So she paused to
Reflect,
How to best
Course correct,
And decided it
Best
To give the high road
A test.
For Crimson’s Creative Challenge
Photo: Ofir Asif
Like a rickety bridge
Over fast,
Troubled water,
Calm your heart
As you cross
To what awaits
Being told.
Trust connections
You fear but
Cannot test or
Strengthen,
With no promise
They won’t pull away,
Break,
Or fold.
Like a rickety bridge
Over fast,
Troubled water,
Take a chance,
Make a step,
And weave new paths
To your old.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Connections
Photo: Atara Katz
As you rumble along
Under skies
Blue like song,
Do you travel
Afar
To the past
In this car?
What new memories
You’d share
Of what’s found
Over there?
Do days gone
Still speed on
Scene by scene
Gray and green
By the glean
Of your machine?
For the Sunday Stills Challenge: Vintage
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: Atara Katz
May your day be lit
By sun
And new grown things
On path to home
And love within.
May the closing year
Bring calm
And blushing joy
And flowered hope
For what begins.
For Sunday Stills: Something Red
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: Ofir Asif
Carve beauty
Out of woe.
Hew purpose
From the rough.
Sculpt meaning
To make good enough
What wasn’t
And yet
Somehow was
All you could
Know.
Carve beauty
Out of woe.
Find you
Inside
The flow.
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