Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
When the books need a home
And a baby needs tending
There’s a case to be made
To setting the workshop’s
Assistant
Right in it.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Workshop
Workshop’s Assistant
parenting
Cookie Crumble
Photo by Cook Eat on Pexels.com
It is the cookie that she wants
No teddy bear, no owl, no bunny.
It is the cookie that she holds
In hand, not in her tummy.
She takes it with her to the park
She holds it all through bedtime story.
She’d bring it right into the bath
To her it’s mandatory.
Her mother sighs
Because she knows:
It is the cookie that will crumble
All over blanket, sheets, and pillow.
The cookie that she’ll have to pry the last remains of
From her child’s hand tomorrow.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
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Pack a Treat!
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Come on Daddy, let’s pack
Some more rocks on your back
This way you will discover
All the treats I uncover
Also bugs and some leaves
Gifts for Mommy to retrieve.
For Tuesday’s Photo Challenge: Treat
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Her Golden Child
photo by Sharon McCutcheon via Skillshare
He’d always been her golden child, born after years of sorrow.
He’d always been her precious jewel, the promise of tomorrow.
He’s gone to take the saffron robes, been hers only to borrow.
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Market Day
PHOTO PROMPT © Fatima Fakier Deria
“Where is that boy?” Hassan demanded.
“I sent your son to your father,” Um-Ali responded from below.
Her voice was calm in the way that often enraged him. As if she’s talking to a baby, he fumed.
“What were you thinking?!” he exploded. “You know I need him on market day!”
“I know you need help on market day,” she stated. “I called Mustafa.”
Her brother. Lord of bossy annoyance. Hassan glowered at his wife.
She chuckled. “You look exactly as Ali had this morning when he thought he’d have to go with you.”
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers June-22-2018
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New To You
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
There it is
The first one,
Breaking through
Your sore gum.
Yet you smile
Wide and true:
Budding tooth
New to you.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge
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Sentry Lesson
PHOTO PROMPT © Jean L. Hays
“It isn’t armor that makes one a good kitchen-window sentry,” he instructed the younglings during a quick peck break.
“Is it the blade?” piped Pepper and stretched a leg to critically eye a very immature spur.
The bird clucked fondly at the chick. Always the feisty one, Pepper was. Last to emerge from the egg but first in every yard-race since.
“No, Son,” the quail stretched tall. “It is all in the plume. Once it grows, hold it high, bob it well.”
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The Epithet
Photo: Ofir Asif
They called them “The Twins”
And termed them inseparable.
Though they each had a name
Using those seemed interminable.
There was ease in regarding
Two beings at once
When the duo rarely gave
Singularity a chance.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 12, 2018:
Epithet
This post continues the blogging challenge in which Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, serves as inspiration a-la the “Daily Prompt.”
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Walk The Future
Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
Hold my hand
And we’ll go
Up the hill
As we sow
Seeds of light
For the thrill
Of just watching
You grow.
For The Sunday Stills Challenge: Future
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Proficient
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
He’s got all the right moves
He knows where the horn blows
He can tell you exactly
Where this big truck goes
He is one with the levers
Will press buttons with glee
He’s proficient in steering
It is quite plain to see.
Merriam-Webster’s word for June 4, 2018:
Proficient
This post continues the blogging challenge in which Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day, serves as inspiration a-la the “Daily Prompt.”
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