Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Too soon the colors
Blazing on the trees
And paths
And drains
And roofs of cars
Would calm,
And ground
And street
And city parks
Will match the clouds in
Moody monochrome.
For the Lens-Artists challenge: Monochrome
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Ah, the curve of the coast
Leaning into
Itself,
Like a child’s
Sleepy head
Her weight slowly
Transferred.
Ah, the breath of the sea
Curling wave after
Wave.
A warm exhale
On your neck,
Child’s rest clearly
Preferred.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Coast
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
They stand together
Fully dressed
Their branches interlaced.
The streetlight hugged between them
Like a child
Held in embrace.
Note: all year long these two trees appear almost indistinguishable. Then comes foliage … and with it a different kind of double take for the glory people see.
For the Lens-Artists Challenge: Seeing double
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
The gray marble
Supports
With leisured rich
Array
The carved squares
And the luxuriating
Pebbled
Head in
Golden display.
Note: The photo was taken at Wat Pho, The Temple of the Reclining Buddha, in Bangkok, Thailand. The pebbled bits represent a small part of the ‘hair’ of the massive Buddha statue. The textures and contrasts of the surfaces were what caught my eye and so the angle of the photo is deliberately ambiguous.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Textures
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Set the sun
Gently behind the loops
Of the day.
Behind the curves and the slopes
That turned your world
Inside out
And your plans
Upside down
And away.
Spread your wings
And head home
To where nestlings
Await
And the feathers of evening
Welcome you
At the gate.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Sunset
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
May the birth of day
Delight you
In the promise
That it brings,
Even with the clear
Potential
For the pulling of
Heart’s strings.
May you know
The hope of
Morning
As it touches
First light’s bliss.
May the good
Outweigh the painful
As tender dawn
To ocean
Kiss.
For the Sunday Stills challenge: Birthdays
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
City brick framing
Glass
Smudged by fingers
And reflections of
Life.
For Becky’s October Squares Lines&Squares Challenge
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Down memory lane
Where small feet
Came to learn,
And the stories
Of pain and resistance
Remain,
Where the concepts
Of secret and magic
A house may
Contain,
Filled my mind with
Both worry
And wonder
Again
And again.
Note: The photo (taken in 2008) is of the fence and alleyway hugging the perimeter of an estate in my childhood town where science, historical espionage, ‘betrayal by pigeon’, capture, torture, hidden tunnels, and suicide were all shared in pretty graphic detail with primary school children during school-tours of the location (complete with yellowed photos, blood stains, personal effects, pistol, tunnel in the bathroom and all). The museum hosted children from all around, but us local kids held the place (which was and still is located right near the town’s center), in a combination of fascination, awe, horror, and perhaps a sprinkle of pride for a perceived association with the courage and tragedy of a local heroine. Though I don’t think they tell this to kids quite the same way these days, the stories and memories remain.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Back Catalog
Photo: Karen Forte
If I could have a pink
Ribbon
Large enough to show my love
Of you
Who fought
And lived
And fought
And passed
And fight on
Still,
I would need the whole breadth
Of sky
To mark
It’s size
And enlist the heavens
As both paint
And quill.
(Photo by my amazingly talented and generous friend Karen Forte, who fills my heart and soul with the beauty of the Pacific Northwest.)
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
It does not always work to take
A seat
Head on.
Sometimes the best way
Is
To come at it
As if you’d really meant to move
Along.
For Cee’s Black&White Photo Challenge: Side of things
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