Photo: Amitai Asif
When your home
Packs away
On your feet
In your bags,
The entire
Wide world
Is your glorious
Backyard.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: backyard
Your Backyard
Perspective
Bottle Dance
Photo: Atara Katz
If you come atop such
Bottled up
Glass
Be sure to not
Pass
Such opportune
Moment
For an impromptu
Dance class.
For the Wits End Photo Challenge: Illusions
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The Top Half
Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
In all of life’s rides
Good perspective is gold
And it’s wise to remember
That the top half
Revolves.
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Skewed
What may seem all
Lopsided
May in fact be
Quite straight,
While what purports to be
Level
May be completely
Bent.
For The Daily Post
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Be a Rebel Today
Photo: Inbar Asif
Be a rebel
Today
Against old ways
That no longer
Nourish
And worries
That hold back
The changes
You know
Your soul
Needs.
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Keep Calm and Carry On
Photo: Amitai Asif
Do not fear
The abrupt edge
Of life
When the path
Disappears
And clefts
Into strife.
Take a breath
Blow out fear
Know a brand new
Adventure
Is immediately
Near.
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In Theory
Photo: Ofir Asif
“In theory,” she said,
“The world’s all you need it to be.”
“In theory,” he nodded,
“It is indeed already so.”
They slacked their thirst
As the hypothesis of plenty
Sprawled below them,
Undulating hope.
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Mushroom Remedy
Photo: Amitai Asif
When problems seem to swell up
Overnight
And worry gives a boon
To fret and fright
It can help to remind
That while some puffy mushrooms
Do hold spite
Many are more air
Than actual might.
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Scaled Contrast
Photo: Atara Katz
I am mesmerized by this photo of the guide guiding other guides in the Judea Desert. His finger is pointing at the very small spot their location represents, onto a map where the complete area isn’t much larger than the square mileage of New Jersey …
I love how his exacting indication contrasts with the vast dunes, hills, and mountains undulating far into the horizon behind him … How the vivid topographical colors on the map contrast with the subdued palette of the landscape …
To me this photo also tells the story of the limited perception one may have of the true scale of things: The size of our cells in relation to our body; our human form compared to the vast Earth; the Earth’s size in the Milky Way; our galaxy as a dot among other dots scattered through the universe like barely a pinprick on a map.
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Structured
Photo: Amitai Asif
At first glance I wasn’t sure what had made my nephew stop to snap this photo of a monochromatic, drab dry bulb laying on the ground. Then I took another look and understood: in it lay the promise; the potential stored; the strength of tender yet tenacious tendril roots that had worked to nourish the more glamorous aspects of whatever plant this had been and maybe still was. Curiosity raised my eyebrows for the few seconds it took me to realize which side of this natural structure was ‘up’ or ‘down.’ I found myself pondering the mysteries and histories held by this brown bulb – now bare and barren on dry dirt – in the rain it had drunk and energies it had generated and the earthworms that had undulated around it … in the story as it would be told by the few leaves still left clinging, dry but home.
How incredible. How incredibly mundane. How marvelously so.
Na'ama Yehuda 
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