Darn Yarn

January 24, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: Analogy, CCC, Flash Fiction, life, Making do, Micro-fiction, Photo prompt, Poetry, Reflections, Sewing, Writing prompt, Yarn 18 Comments

She never did like thready business.

Yet there she was, darning holes, patching elbows, sewing up dangling hems and chasing runs on stockings.

How did it ever come to that?

She squinted and held the needle to the light.

The story of her life, it was. That squeezing through the eye of the needle. Barely, barely making do. Struggling to fit another stitch before the end of her rope.

It was all wrong.

She tied the knot.

It slipped.

She tied another, hoping it would hold. Hoping that the hidden stitches she put in will keep things covered long enough to soothe the chill that ever lurked, awaiting exposed places.

Existing really should not be so threadbare.

The thin wrap of life, knit together moment by moment in complicated patterns of dropped stitches and messy mistakes.

Will it come together at the end?

She did not know, but she hoped.

For Crispina’s Crimson’s Creative Challenge #63

Fallen

January 21, 2020January 21, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Acceptance, Allegory, cycle of life, End of Day, fpj-photo-challenge, Inevitable, Let go, Nature, Old and New, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Trees 7 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

I’ve lost connection

With over-tired roots

Fragile

With the passage of the elements

And time.

I’ve let go

To the shifting earth

And to the rocks

Repeatedly cracked open

By frost and sun.

And toppled to lie

Finally

Atop the ground.

Ready to go back

To that from which

I had

Become.

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Trees

Embers Of Dreams

January 18, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Anew, Be gentle, Creative writing, Dreams, Hopes, inspiration, Micro Poetry, Patience, Poetry, Weekend Writing Prompt 11 Comments

Photo: Pablo Martinez on Unsplash

Blow gently into the embers

Your dreams.

So the quiet flames

Of what you’d always wished

And perhaps did not know how

To do

Can lick them into hope

Anew.

For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Anew in 31 words

Frozen

January 17, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Creative writing, Frozen, Hibernation, JusJoJan, Movies, Patience, Poetry, SoCS, time, Waiting, Writing Challenge, Writing prompt 21 Comments

Photo: Amitai Asif

Inside the core of frozen

Lore

There beats a tender

Heart.

Beneath the glaciers of

Dearth

Unfurl forgotten

Paths.

Amidst the howling winds of

Cold

Whispers bid to

Start,

And feed the seed ‘neath Tundra’s

Soul

Awaiting summer’s

Part.

Note: just the other day, I watched parts of the movie “Frozen” (the first one) with a young child, in preparation for that child’s going to the movies with friends to see “Frozen 2.” Now I have an ear-worm and am yet to “let it go” … 😉

For Linda Hill’s SoCS and JusJoJan challenges: Movie title