Ice Cream Tim

July 12, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: children, Creative writing, Ditty, Finding a way, Ice-Cream, Just for fun, Making do, parenting, RDP, Rhyme, Silly, Writing prompt 14 Comments

Photo: Brendan Church on Unsplash

Tim had a serious thing

For

Ice cream.

No matter the flavor

It was something

He’d favor.

His mama thought it

Extreme

To hold a lone food

Supreme,

So she came up with

A scheme

That worked wonders on

Tim:

Every new food she’d

Mix right into the

Ice cream.

So she fixed it with okra

And kale

And some beans,

And added an olive

And handfuls of

Greens,

And for his dessert

Even mashed in

Sardines.

And the boy ate the lot

Smiling full to the

Brim.

It was not until college

He caught on to the

Theme.

For RDP Sunday: Ice Cream

City Witty

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: 100WordChallenge, Alligators, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Just for fun, Micro-fiction, New York City, Nightlife, Poetry, Rhyme, Traffic, Urban Legends 49 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

“You see those?”

“I sure do.”

“Well, that’s where they’d come through.”

“Don’t think I believe you.”

“Well then, just wait and see.”

“Until when would that be?”

“Sometimes ‘tween two and three.”

“What? Are you kidding me!?”

“It’s the city, my friend

And this is not West End …

Alligators won’t poke their head

Till the green light’s delayed.

Sure, they value the park,

The reservoir in the dark,

And the nice scratchy spark

From a bit of tree bark …

But you’d agree it is best

To let most traffic rest

‘Fore you poke scaly breasts

Onto Central Park West.”

For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers – Thanks for picking my photo of my ‘hood’!

And for those who want more … about this snippet of lore about Alligators living in the tunnels underneath the city … click on the ‘gator below …

In Their Skin

June 23, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Creative writing, dVerse, Empowerment, Folklore, Irish, Making do, Past and Future, Poetry, Rhyme, Seal, Selkie, Stolen, Women 23 Comments

Photo: Keith Luke on Unsplash

Eons had passed

Since when they had

Their skins

Stolen

By man.

They learned to love

The life they had

Yet dreams

Cried hope

Aground.

Till secrets told

By men at night

Got heard

And sang

Around.

And off they went

The selkie all

Safe in

Their skin,

Unbound.

For the dVerse poetry challenge: Selkie

Gallivanting Gary

June 20, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Creative writing, Ditty, Dogs, Family, Joy, Just because, Just for fun, Living-in-the-moment, Playfulness, Poetry, Rhyme, Weekend Writing Prompt 24 Comments

Photo: Noah Austin on Unsplash

Gallivanting Gary liked to roam about

In town.

He refused to let a passing hardship weigh

Him down.

He took his time to get things done.

He rambled on and on.

But once the dinner bell at home was rang

He’d lift his feet

And run.

For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Gallivant in 46 words

The Reporter

May 24, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Things Kids Say, Writing Tags: children, Creative writing, Ditty, Funnies, Journalist, Just for fun, Potty Training, Raising Children, RDP, Rhyme, Silly, Writing prompt 15 Comments

Photo: Sven Brandsma on Unsplash

He reports first thing in the morning.

He reports again every night.

There’s little that could dissuade him

From being absolutely forthright.

He records every scene with a flourish.

His voice reflects every sight,

As with journalist’s flair

He spells data in ample delight.

He would not be distracted from telling,

The minutia has got to be tight.

After all, he is in potty training

And to him no discharging is trite.

For RDP Sunday: Journalist

Silly Billy

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Creative writing, Ditty, dVerse, Guard Duty, Just for fun, Oops, Poetry, Poetry prompt, Quadrille, Rhyme, Silly 33 Comments

Photo: Smadar Epshtein

Silly Billy was too chilly

So he too a little nap.

Silly Billy did not really

Think it would cause him mishap.

Frilly Tilly woke him shrilly

And with very little slack,

Sent him home and told poor Billy

That he isn’t welcome back.

For the dVerse poetry quadrille challenge: silly

Note: I find this photo too delightful to use only once… So if you think you’d seen it before, you are not imagining things … 🙂

Frazzle Dazzle

May 3, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Bears, Creative writing, Frazzled, Just because, Poetry, RDP, Relationships, Rhyme, Timing, Writing prompt 15 Comments

Photo: Smadar Epshtein

She refused to stop her fretting.

He could not get her

To relax.

She was adamant the world

Was ending,

That they were about to breathe

Their last.

Nothing he did could

Distract her.

Not the honey.

Not the charm.

She was frazzled,

And he should have known

To not try

Bedazzling

To disarm.

For RDP Sunday: Frazzled

Get Connected

March 24, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Things Kids Say, Writing Tags: Breathing Space, Connect, Current events, Family, fpj-photo-challenge, Making do, Nature, Outdoors, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Rhyme, Spring 10 Comments

Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev

Walk with me

Into nature

Where the fresh air

Flows through.

Walk with me

As we shelter

Under skies

Me, and you.

Walk with me

Hand in hand

Muddy boots

Flowers, too.

Let us breathe

And connect

With everything

That is true.

For the Tuesday photo challenge: Connect

Them Poor Bushes

March 6, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Professional Development, Reflections, Writing Tags: Choices, Creative writing, Decisions, Figure, Indecision, Just because, Just for fun, Rhyme, Social Skills, SoCS, Stream of Consciousness, Working together 4 Comments

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She figures it would be okay.

She figures it would do.

She’ll find her schedule and get back,

Within a month or two.

She figures she could do the task.

She figures it is fine.

She’d done a thing like that before,

Not quite, but in outline.

Still, she figures it a breeze.

She figures she’d succeed.

Even when history, at best,

Is wondering if indeed.

She figures this, she figures that

In neutral all her wheels,

And it becomes impossible

To not begin to feel,

That maybe it’d be easier

To let them bushes be

They’re beat from hedging here and there

And wishing they could flee!

Note: This was really just for fun and isn’t about (ahem) anyone … So similarity to any individual is (sort of) coincidental … 😉 Dedicated to all the ‘he’ and ‘she’ and ‘you’ and ‘they,’ who won’t say yea and won’t say nay, and leave us all in limbo every day …

For Linda Hill’s SoCS challenge: figure

Another Woman’s Treasure

March 3, 2020Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Funnies, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Folk song, fpj-photo-challenge, Junk, Just for fun, Making do, Nursery Rhyme, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Rhyme, Treasure, Upcycle 17 Comments

Photo: Inbar Asif

There’s a hole in that kettle …

I don’t care, don’t throw it.

There’s a hole it that kettle —

This junk won’t make tea.

I don’t care if it’s holey

That pretty, red kettle,

I don’t care if it’s holey

It’s perfect for me! …

(Yeah, if you noted a bit of reverberation, this is very loosely based on “There’s a hole in the bucket” children’s folk song … ;))

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Junk

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