Pyrotechnical Prayer

July 4, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: 4th of July, Celebration, Current affairs, Fireworks, Freedom, hope, Independence, Justice, MerriamWebster, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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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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Regardless

July 3, 2018July 3, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Change, Current affairs, History, hope, Injustice, MerriamWebster, Possibility, Regardless, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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Despite it all, she knew

It was not meant to be this way,

Bereft of tether.

Despite it all, she understood

Wrong won’t hold sway

Forever.

So despite it all, she prayed

Easier breaths will soon be drawn

Together.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 3, 2018:

Regardless

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Find Your Métier

July 1, 2018July 1, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Professional Development, Reflections, Speech Language Pathology, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Be yourself, blessing, Find your way, Interconnectedness, métier, MerriamWebster, Trade, Vocation, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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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.

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 1, 2018:

Métier

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Lambaste Injustice

June 30, 2018June 30, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Asylum, Be the voice, Current affairs, MerriamWebster, Protect, Protest, Refugees, Resist, Seeking help, Speak up, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda; NYC

There are times when to pummel

A wrongness with words

Is a must.

If another is silenced

And their voice thrown

To dust,

Then lambasting the cruelty

Is the way to be

Just.

(Note: Photo taken today at the Families Belong Together March in NYC)

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 30, 2018:

Lambaste

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A Time’s Tome

June 29, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Civil duty, Current affairs, Have a voice, History, Investigation, Justice, MerriamWebster, Obsruction, Truth, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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There are tales in the making

Some so long, one might fear

Hope will drown in the swamps

Where the truth disappears.

But other tomes are unfolding

That the soul aches to hear:

Of corruption that ended

As justice grew near.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 29, 2018:

Tome

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Ostensible Justice

June 28, 2018June 28, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Bait and Switch, Current affairs, Deceit, Justice, MerriamWebster, Standards, Supreme Court, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

Photo: Andre Simms

When a rule was explained

As one meant to give voice

But abandoned

As soon

As one snatched up their choice,

Don’t be fooled to believe

It was done in good faith

For ostensible standards

Prove hypocrisy’s face.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 28, 2018:

Ostensible

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Bedizened

June 27, 2018June 27, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Bedizen, children, delight, Dress up, Just for fun, MerriamWebster, play, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

Photo: The Mid-life Woman

She twirls this way and back again

Jingling beads fit for a reign

Tuto flying

Boas, too.

Joyfully bedizened

To wazoo.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 27, 2018:

Bedizen

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Route To Kaput

June 26, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Be a voice, Current affairs, History, humanity, Leadership, MerriamWebster, Morality, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay Leave a comment

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Olden times come to rise

Where the heartless devise

Righteousness to brutalize

Those they dehumanize.

An unwise move, time shows

For a smart person knows

That even one group maligned

Cracks open fault lines

In a stroke that would put

A reign on path to kaput.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 26, 2018:

Kaput

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Amortize

June 25, 2018June 26, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Abuse of power, Bullying, Current affairs, History, Human Rights, MerriamWebster, Racism, Value, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay, WWII Leave a comment

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Allow persons in power

To amortize the legitimacy of those

They term ‘others,’

And the weak will fall behind them,

Eager to believe themselves

More worthy

Than most.

They’d be wrong, of course, for

They are not.

Because none who are truly strong

And deserving of honor

Would ever devalue others

Nor would they sit back as

Inhumanity

Takes hold.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 25, 2018:

Amortize

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Skirl a Tune

June 23, 2018Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Reflections, WordOfDayNY, Writing Tags: Bagpipes, Highlands, Landscapes, MerriamWebster, Music, Nature, Poem, Scotland, WordOfDayNY, WordOfTheDay 3 Comments

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Skirl a tune

Blow the pipes

Upon Highlands’

Tall banks.

Through deep lochs

And rocky lakes

May beauty keep

Your soul awake.

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 23, 2018:

Skirl

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