Photo: Ofir Asif
Make no case
For shells
That harm,
When peace reaches
Exponentially
Farther.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Shell
No Case
No More War
In Memorial
Photo: Bugler.com
As salutes recoil
And bugles call
May hearts recall
The arms emptied
And the lives ended
For freedoms defended
As sorrows entwine
With honor defined.
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Deplete Hate
Photo: Ofir Asif
Let us deplete
The harm
The hate
So more room’s left
To tolerate
The differences
We may create
As we attempt
To integrate
Beliefs well overdue
Update.
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Glaring Dare
Photo: Dvora Freedman
In the midst of what glares
Too-hot stares
Reckless dares
Everywhere,
Find a moment to spare
Take a breath, be aware
Of the beauty
The air
And the hope
That we share
If we care
To embrace all that’s there
And declare
No despair
As we pledge
No warfare
And instead
Seek repair.
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Do Not Be Silenced
- The Children’s Memorial, Yad Vashem
In remembrance of times
Of horror
Never to repeat
Never to minimize:
Do not shy
Of voice
Do not shy
Of fact
Do not shy
Of holding truth
To challenge
Those who in their blindness,
In their hunger to cause pain,
Seek to deny
The cost of hate
The force of harm
The voice of those who had been silenced.
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Do not be silenced.
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Be brave.
Walk tall.
Remember:
Those who seek to silence
To zip history closed
To limit learning,
Can only do so
If they make you forget
The truth
Entrusted to you — to all of us —
By those who’d perished
And those who’d managed
To survive.
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Teach Joy, Not Hate
May we teach our children joy,
Not hate.
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Deep Down, There is No Difference
Because a baby
born
is all human potential
bundled
into hope.
Because a smile of open joy
is recognizable
without the understanding
of a single word.
Because the tears of pain
bleed heartache in all languages.
Because no outward space
or god or faith
bestows on some
more air to breathe
or right to love
and caring growth
than to the babies of others.
Because indeed
deep down
and in all the places that matter
there is
no difference.
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In Memoriam to The Fallen
In this evening and upcoming day of Memorial
As Israel remembers its fallen
As parents, siblings, loved ones weep and mourn:
Let it be the last day of new pain
Let there be
Please, oh God
No more war.
Anywhere.
No more dead, no more graves
No more maimed
No more grieving.
Let the bloodshed be ended.
Let the warmongering cease.
Let those who entice pain, find ways of words.
Let those who live hate, open hearts, make new doors.
There’s a way.
No more war.
We’re all people.
All someone’s baby, sibling, loved one, neighbor, friend
We all share more than what can divide us
We all hurt, love, hope, bleed.
No more violence.
There is no need.
Let there be
Hearts that open
Light to hold, hope to share, peace to mold.
Let there be
No more war.
As we weep for the fallen
As we remember what happened and wished that did not
As we tally the terrible price
The unnecessary ripping
Every death, every wounding
Agonises an ache in our hearts
A hole in our souls
Let there be
From now on
No more war.
Na'ama Yehuda 
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