Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
I’d planned something else
But
Instead,
This pretty bird
Over
My head
Chirped my
Concentration
To bed.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Overhead
Bird Overheard
New York City
Do Not Engage
Photo Prompt © Roger Bultot
“It’s covering its eyes.”
“Say what?” Sergeant Frank was always gruff but Leon knew a warning when he heard it. He could (almost) visualize his superior in his boxer-shorts, remote in one hand and beer in the other. One did not get between the Sergeant and his beer.
“The new statue, Sir. In Rockefeller. It’s covering its eyes.”
“Leon, are you drunk?!”
“No, Sir. The hotdog man saw it, too. And a bystander.”
“Statues don’t move, Leon. That’s why they’re called statues.”
“This one did, Sir.”
Silence.
“Sir?”
Sigh. “I’m sending Marco. Meanwhile, Leon … sit tight and … do not engage …”
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
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Summer Stillness
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Stop to breathe,
Take in ease,
Back to bark in
Summer breeze.
Shadow’s cool
City’s still,
In the park
Time to chill.
For the Sunday Stills challenge: Stillness
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Simplicity
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
The sun.
The shade.
The tree.
And me.
For One Word Sunday: Simplicity
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Tower Story
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Stories tell
Please
Old tower,
Of the people who crept
Up your stairs
In all hours
To ring bells,
To escape.
Set amidst the new
Buildings
You house
Hope,
But no bells,
As you still welcome
Whomever
Needs a moment
To gape.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Tower
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Homecoming
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
As you descend toward the shore
You see
The water
Lapping
At the edges
Of what will
In a moment be
The touchdown to your welcome home.
Note: This photo was taken last month, on a cellphone, from behind the thick windows of a Boeing 787 on approach to JFK (shadow of the aircraft on the water).
For Travel With Intent’s One Word Sunday: Aerial
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Wheel No More
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
It went up.
It went down.
It went all the slow way
Around.
It’s no more
Nor the store
But it sure was
There
Before.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Wheel
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Moody Monday
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Silver water rides small ripples
On the rise and fall
Of light,
As the clouds,
Heavily burdened,
Hold the rain
Till dark
Of night.
For the Photo For the Month prompt: Moody
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From The Other Side
April 2018 Snow. Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Last year’s snow
Gave way
To melted cold,
So blooming trees
This Spring
Unfold
To leak
New life
To Winter’s old.
Note: This is the original unedited color photo, and represents the actual light and hues on the day the photo was taken.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: From the side
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Out-Wheeled
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
At the spot
Where one heart stopped
And others pause
To ponder,
It stands
Out-wheeled into pallor
In grief
For what was lost
And what might have been
If there hadn’t the need
To mark this
Post
For a life that can
No longer
Wander.
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For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Wheels
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