In Waiting

November 17, 2019November 17, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Belonging, Central Park, Hat, Just because, Left behind, Lens-Artists, Lost, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Relationships, Waiting, Yearning 11 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

I am waiting for you

To come back.

To grab hold

And place me

Against your forehead,

As you adjust the strap.

I am waiting

For you

To return

From where you’d left me

Behind

Or forgot

I might yearn

To be perched

On your brow

Holding firm

Against burn.

For the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Waiting

Yellow Fellows

November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: A moment in time, CFFC, Fall, foliage, Micro Poetry, New York City, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Yellow 19 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Speed of passage

Matched

By change

Of time.

A City moment

Snatched

By yellow

In its

Prime.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Yellow

Moody Monochrome

November 2, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Change, City life, Colors, Fall, flowers, Lens-Artists, Monochrome, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Seasons 10 Comments

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

In Two’s Company

October 27, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Analogy, Beautiful, City life, Double, foliage, Lens-Artists, Micro Poetry, New York City, Pair, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry 20 Comments

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

Temple Textures

October 22, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Bangkok, CFFC, Micro Poetry, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Reclining Buddha, Temple, Textures, Thailand, travel, Wat Pho 4 Comments

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

Set The Sun

October 22, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Creative writing, End of Day, Evening, fpj-photo-challenge, Going home, Overcome, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Sunset, Wonderland 7 Comments

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

Squared Reflection

October 16, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: City life, Lines&Squares, Micro Poetry, New York City, OctoberSquares, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Reflection 8 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

City brick framing

Glass

Smudged by fingers

And reflections of

Life.

For Becky’s October Squares Lines&Squares Challenge

Next in Line

October 6, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: airport, expectation, Hong Kong, Lined up, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Sunday Stills, Thailand, travel 12 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Framed by

Turquoise water,

Aligned by

Mountains

And turf.

Next in line

For takeoff,

Ere the last leg

To Thailand

And loved ones

And surf.

For the Sunday Stills Photo Challenge: Lines and squares

The Strength Of Stone

September 24, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Balance, comfort, fpj-photo-challenge, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Resilience, Rest, Sensitivity, Stone, Strength 30 Comments

Photo: Ofir Asif

The strength of stone

Allows the rounding of its

Edges by time

And rain.

It lets the earth

Scour its base

As flood-paths swirl

And drain,

Even as it lets itself

Maintain

A firm place

To lean

One’s burden on,

Again.

Note: My nephew took this photo in Ethiopia, and I am humbled and moved by the beauty of it, and the eons it carries and the beginnings – and middles, and ends – of so many things it had seen.

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Stone