Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
When faced with rough terrain ahead
Or uneven steps that may
Hold the potential
For plunging
Into pain
Or disruption:
Proceed with care.
Caution does not mean
Cowardice.
Bluster and bold moves do not denote
Good reason.
Determination often means
Holding on
To what railing is available
And bending down
To circumstance
So one may reach
Desired heights
Without the disservice
Of overzealous
Pride
To
Detriment.
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The Canadian Rockies (Photo: Ronit Koren)
In the magnificence of mountains
Hewed from sky
Calved by glaciers
Raised by heaving earth
Aged by wind
Shorn by storms,
Awe is
Born.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
Recreate not what shouldn’t have happened
Yet had
But what should have taken place
And hadn’t
Or not quite as planned,
The seeds of which
Hold promise
To what may truly be
Worth recreating
When time
Once more
Comes around.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
As change and challenge come
And you are stretched
Beyond what seems possible
To overcome,
Recall
How transformation
Can become
Its own journey
To an unexpected
Outcome.
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Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Within the infinite expanse
So immeasurably borderless
In perpetual ebb
And flow
And breath
And glow,
There hides
The implausible
Yet glaringly finite
Reality
That it too
Is delimited
By wind
And storm
And distant shores.
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Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
There’s magic
At the end of day
As sunset preludes
Silvery gold
Upon the beach.
As children
Call
In play
And light glints
Priceless moments
Within reach.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
As tensions hold
The edge
Between manageable
And overwhelmed,
Between spared
And flooded,
Be tender.
As scales tip
To potentiate
Disaster
And fluctuate
From safe
To calamitous,
Be kind.
Remember how
Critical times
Hold within them
The balance
Of rebuilding
On the fabric of
Strength
And profound
Understanding.
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Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Like fish to water she is drawn.
The sparkling blue calls,
Its promise
An irresistible
Invite.
She rushes,
Determinedly
Entranced.
Her mother after
Hurries,
Magnetized,
To stop
The captivated
Little one
Before she falls.
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Photo: Atara Katz
Seek not acclaim
But accord
Not praise
But partaking
Not applause
But appraisal
Not homage
But homecoming.
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Lighted path (Photo credit: unknown)
There’s ennobled a path
For each person
Who strives
To live life
Reverently enough
To keep all
Dignified.
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