Photo: Dvora Freedman
In the restless nights
They walked
Silent in the desert
Stalked
While the prowlers
Rose to halt
And turn hope
To anguished fault.
But we’ll silent be
No more
For those who had been harmed
Before.
And we will raise our voice
To show
That cruelty we will not
Let grow.
For dVerse Poets: Sounds of Silence
Photo: cmurrey, Flickr
“These are tempestuous times,” she said
And her strong hands wrung the laundered sheets
To squeeze out suds
As she would want
To push out infiltrated evil.
“I’ve seen hardship before,” she stirred
The linens
In the boiling vat,
Simmering the despair
Till it foamed and evaporated
Into bleached hope.
“Wrong does not last,” she rinsed
And wrung
And shook
And hung
The wash
Till it fluttered
Free
To dry,
Only the barest of stains
Still visible
In the sun.
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Photo: Elie Kichka
Undulating dunes
Slowly slide
To the sound
Of soft sand
Under hand.
For the Lens Artists Photo Challenge: Soft
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
I will go, Big Brother
To the end of the earth
After you.
In spite of fear
I will try to repeat
All you do.
But I’ll still
Just in case
Reach for
And draw courage
From you.
For the Wits End Challenge: Childhood
Photo source: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Take a rest.
Rest your weight.
Old or new
There for you.
Scratched by love
Left by hate
It will let
The world wait
As you breathe
Quiet in
Quiet out
Soul inflate
Calm create.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
Photo: Amitai Asif
May the wind
Fill your sail,
May your path
Never fail,
May you be spared
Facing gale
Or travail
And may good fortune
Prevail.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Wind
Photo: Yael Yehuda
Pink fuzz lit
In the sun
Hirsute stem
Brushing ground
Rising up
Set to stun.
For this week’s Sunday Stills: Macro
Image credit Gamze Bozkaya via Unsplash
“Hang on tight!” Mermee called
And she launched
Wings unfold
O’er fields
Mountains old.
And below her
I swung
My heart in my throat
Rung
As below me unfolded
Hope and fear, life remolded.
Till claws
Let go
And I fell.
Morning broke
My dream’s spell.
For The MMLM Photo Challenge
Photo by Cook Eat on Pexels.com
It is the cookie that she wants
No teddy bear, no owl, no bunny.
It is the cookie that she holds
In hand, not in her tummy.
She takes it with her to the park
She holds it all through bedtime story.
She’d bring it right into the bath
To her it’s mandatory.
Her mother sighs
Because she knows:
It is the cookie that will crumble
All over blanket, sheets, and pillow.
The cookie that she’ll have to pry the last remains of
From her child’s hand tomorrow.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt
He’d always been her golden child, born after years of sorrow.
He’d always been her precious jewel, the promise of tomorrow.
He’s gone to take the saffron robes, been hers only to borrow.
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