The Toll

March 23, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: Childhood Adversity, Comprehension, Coping skills, Impervious, Poetry, Protection, Self preservation, The cost of pain, Trauma and Development, Weekend Writing Prompt, Women's history month 21 Comments

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Photo: Alabaster canopic jar (Wikimedia)

She was impervious to their taunting.

To the words

That meant to hurt

But found no inlet

No crack

In what seemed her

Flawless control.

She was impervious to others’ love

As well.

The doors of her alabaster soul

Had slammed shut

After her spirit had peeked

Out

Only to find more harm

Than she knew she would be able

To endure if she were to

Somehow

Remain whole.

She was impervious to much,

But not to beauty.

She could not give up

That

Without crumbling.

And so she lived

In stoic

Understanding

Of the world,

And its toll.

For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Impervious in 99 words

Shimmer’s Glimmer

March 22, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Calm, Evening, Fish pond, Israel, Maagan Michael, Photo a Week, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Shimmer, Twilight, Water fowl 6 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Evening gathers to call

Flocks to watering hole

And to glimmers of fish

In the sparkling bowl.

Palm to palm

Whispers calm,

As the pond

Drained but bright

Refracts sun’s glinting light

From silvery fins

‘Til a good night.

For Nancy Merrill’s A Photo a Week Challenge: Shimmer

Rail Road

March 21, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Caution, Crossroads, Current affairs, Metaphor, Perspective, Photo Challenge, Photo prompt, Poetry, Rail, Road, Which Way Challenge 2 Comments

Photo: Philip Coons

Where the rail

Meets the road

And the gravel

Kisses tracks,

Linger not

At the cross-point.

For the trains

Will chug on

And engines run

Because they can.

For the Which Way Challenge

Rock Gathering

March 20, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Central Park, CFFC, City life, Equinox, Gatherings, New York City, Playground, playing, Poetry, Shadows, Spring, Weekly Photo Challenge, WitsEndChallenge 8 Comments

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Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Gather ’round the rocks

As daylight lingers

Onto land,

And sunlight’s fingers

Tickle children

In windowed shade

And sun.

Gather ’round the City’s park

To frolic

As Spring comes,

And as the promise

Of green growth

Comes closer

Dawn by dawn.

(While today is the Spring Equinox, the photo itself is more promise than reality … for the trees in Central Park are yet to bud and green, but soon they will … and so the photo holds a sight near to be seen …)

For Wits-Ends Weekly Photo Challenge: Gatherings

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Shadows

World Wonder

March 19, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Amazing, Building, fpj-photo-challenge, History, Inca, Machu Picchu, Perfection, Photo Challenge, Poetry, South America, travel, Wonderful 7 Comments

Photo: Amitai Asif

No mortar

No wheel

No motors to wield,

Yet time

And the elements

Toppled not what they’d built.

The wonder, the magic,

The near perfect

Craftsmanship:

Machu Picchu

Continues

To hold awe

In its grip.

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Wonder

Peru Proud

March 18, 2019March 18, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: Beautiful world, Mountains, Peru, PFTW, Photo a Week, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Portrait, South America, travel, Vista, Women 14 Comments

Photo: Amitai Asif

There she stands,

Belongs,

Enlivened

By the land

That mountains birthed,

And the knowledge

Of the power

That she holds

Through Mother Earth.

For the Photo for the Week Challenge: portrait

A Bell To Tell

March 17, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: Archeology, Bells, History, Lens-Artists, Past and Future, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Stories, Through children's eyes 20 Comments

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Ephstein

What lesson does history tell

Of shattered bits,

And scratched on bells?

Can peals of old

Be heard

Be said

So we not ruin

What’s ahead?

For the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: History

Keen Green

March 17, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Reflections, Writing Tags: City life, Green, Just for fun, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Praying Mantis, Silly, St. Patrick's Day, Sunday Stills, Unexpected 12 Comments

Photo: Dvora Freedman

Hello there,

How are you, Ma’am?

I’ve missed a spot?

Oh well, oh damn.

There’s no perfection

On the lam

And I’ve really

Got to scram.

Have you seen some

Elves around?

I’ve been told to

Look for rainbows

At the end of

Traffic jams,

(And yes, I know the

Gold’s a scam

But I’ll still give it

An exam).

For Terri’s Sunday Stills: Green

Have Heart For A Better Humanity

March 16, 2019March 16, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Memoriam, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: All are one, compassion, connection, End violence, humanity, Interconnectedness, New Zealand, Poetry, SixWordSaturday, Terrorism, Writing prompt 14 Comments

Photo: Monique Laats on Pexels.com

When a place of worship crumbles

Into hell of gore and pain,

And the sorrows of the many

Become what connects us all again,

Know that care can conquer ugly

And that compassion outdoes hate’s disdain,

As long as we eject terror

To heed the better, deeper call,

That anything that harms our kinship

Diminishes the very core of all,

Just as anything that builds it

Can lead humanity to standing tall.

For Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

A Fleeting Equilibrium

March 16, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: Balance, Change, Current affairs, Equilibrium, Equinox, hope, Imperfection, Impermanence, Moment in time, Poetry, Power, Weekend Writing Prompt 11 Comments

Photo: Tina Nord on Pexels.com

She held her breath and waited for the instant

In time

Where Earth’s equator passed through

The center of the sun.

Imperfectly balanced

As it was

By arcs and tilt and latitudes,

She cared not about

The argument that it could never be

In ideal form,

Or that the exact timing

Varied

With convictions

And perceptions of the mind.

She paused nonetheless,

Determined

To witness the fleeting equilibrium

Of light and dark,

And the shift of balance

That it could,

perhaps today, allow.

For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Equinox in 83 words

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