Photo: Atara Katz
Underneath the soft plumage
And pretty colors
Afield,
Resides a strength to protect
From those who violence
Wield.
Underneath the pink top
The hat of power
Revealed,
Live truths of how both
Softness and thorns
Are required
To be healed.
For the Sunday Stills Challenge: Make mine pink
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If you feel bereft of hope
In view of those who lead
Not by honor
But deceit;
Hold on to the voice of people
Rising
To relieve
Those who cherish false and greed
From the path of harm
They have conceived.
Be strong
Even as you are now
Understandably
Bereaved.
For there will be better days
Ahead
Where heart
Over current swamp,
Succeeds.
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Inchmeal by inchmeal
We can reclaim
Lost sanity.
Small step by small step
We can restore
What this recent time had
Hammered in brutality.
The foundations are still there
Trusting rescue
Shaken but resistant.
Inchmeal by inchmeal
We can bring back home
Revive
Transform
The currently abandoned
Humanity.
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Photo: Chagit Moriah-Gibor
The sheer size of injustice
May derail many a
Courage,
But the sure footed will know
There’s much room to
Encourage,
For heft can usurp power
But does not need mean
Might,
When the small but the many
Can prove stronger in a
Fight.
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May justice make haste
To reclaim what once graced
But has since been debased
By a swamp that laid waste
And all ethics replaced.
May the truth festinate
Removal of greed and hate
To restore facts misplaced
By those who greatness erased.
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It is a sign of the times
It is a heartache due noting
And why all must not minimize
The essential role of fair voting.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda; NYC
There are times when to pummel
A wrongness with words
Is a must.
If another is silenced
And their voice thrown
To dust,
Then lambasting the cruelty
Is the way to be
Just.
(Note: Photo taken today at the Families Belong Together March in NYC)
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When corruption reaches levels
That even present swamps
Cannot contain
There comes a time
To open windows
And expel the source of pain.
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Photo: Ofir Asif
Make this rivulet
Of hope
Into a river
Of change.
Let a movement
For kindness
And the trickle
Of sooth,
Become a wave
Blue and wide enough
To hold the full depths
Of what should have always been
Self-evident truths.
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