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They didn’t know what they could do. What’s left of what they had.
So they rode the day in minute steps, a hand in tender hand.
They sought the light as morning came.
They danced into the night.
Because they knew no ban could
Fully
Take away
What is allowed.
For RDP Tuesday: Ban
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There was something she didn’t share, but knew.
She held it, close, against her heart. A snuggle for her spirit. They could not take away what they did not realize she understood.
So she hid her comprehension. Her perceptions. Her realizations that what was presented as truth, was not.
Real Truth, that which resonated with her soul, was different. It sang.
She’d been quite young when she’d learned how to discern the babble from the song. It hadn’t been easy to maintain Truth, to blanket her face with masks of complacent adoration. Still she labored at it, keeping hope afloat.
For the RDP Sunday prompt: Truth
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She hadn’t intended for it to go this way.
She’d taken pains to be intensely selective of what she allowed. She’d researched every step, scoured barely legible ink on faded notes and prepared for every eventuality. She had kept her eyes peeled for any red-flags that should not be ignored.
She was careful.
And yet. There it was. Completely different than intended.
Her error.
She already repeated all the steps and realized her mistake. Her wonderful mistake.
It did not turn out as she’d expected.
It turned out fantastic instead.
She bottled it.
The aromatic error that will become the star perfume of the age.
For the RDP Monday challenge: Aromatic
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Nimble Nelly
Bought a deli
And made a menu
With mashed yam.
She wrote in cheese
Hot from the oven
And sculpted bread rolls
From cold ham.
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As cold wind blows
And worries grow,
Squirrel away
Soul sustenance
And stash fresh hope.
As harsh congeals
And harm leans close,
Squirrel away
Good words of heart:
They’ll help you cope.
For the RDP Sunday challenge: Squirrel
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
And the clouds
Bowed
To ocean
Weaving rain
Waves to sky
Kissing veils
Onto mountains
Drenching wet
Speeding by.
For the RDP Daily Prompt: Drench
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Come on friend
We will walk
On this sand
To the end
Of the earth
And return
Just before
A new night
Falls again.
For the RDP Thursday Challenge: Friend
Photo: Inbar Asif
What grace allowed
Through ocean’s sigh
And earth’s old core
That plumed near by,
Embraces life
In all that die.
For the Ragtag Monday Prompt: Grace
Photo: Tzur Moriah
Come the peak
Of a morning
Perched atop
Milky alps,
A mug of brew
And its message
Wakes the mind
Warms the heart.
For the Friday RDP Challenge: Coffee
Photo: Jaime Michelle
Every year it shrinks back
Every year it grows less
Till too soon
It will be
But a memory
Unless.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Absent
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