Me, telling stories at 10 months
Fifth of seven, all girls, I was born
Telling tales.
Far enough to duck rules
For first, middle, or last,
I grabbed place
To be me
And held on
Talking fast.
As what shouldn’t be
Grew
And real life wove
Impossible,
Words remained
Nonetheless
In my soul
In my brain,
To be clasped
And sustain
Life and joy
Times again.
For Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge: Fifth
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Ephstein
What lesson does history tell
Of shattered bits,
And scratched on bells?
Can peals of old
Be heard
Be said
So we not ruin
What’s ahead?
For the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: History
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Layer by layer
They go back
In time,
Descending through eras
They can carefully
Climb.
What whispers
What stories
Does the wadi
Impart?
Will their souls see
The footprints
These rocks know
By heart?
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Layer
Photo: Dvora Freedman
If eyes could speak,
They’d tell of roads
No one should take,
And hardship that
Does not build,
But breaks.
If eyes could speak,
They’d share the stories
Of long paths,
That some must walk
With shattered hearts.
If eyes could speak,
They’d share hope, too.
For being seen
Brings light into
What one must know,
And one must do.
For Nancy Merrill’s a Photo a Week challenge: Eyes
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Who had stepped through this door
Over thresholds
Before?
What words did old timber
Hear
In times gone but still near?
Do dormant secrets
Await
Behind a roped-to-close gate?
If you step close enough to
Go through
Will the past echo to you?
For the Wits End Photo Challenge: History
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
And the stories that we tell
To small ones under
Good tales’ spell
Become the fabric
That unveils
The yarns they’ll spin
Or might dispel.
For the SYW-Revisited Challenge
Photo: Atara Katz
As the stories unfold
Pried from time’s
Stranglehold
Bit by bit
You’ll behold
What the fingers
Of old
Would have seen
Could have told.
For the d’Verse Poets challenge: Unseen Things
Photo: Inbar Asif
In the days that unfold
Morning rays
Evening’s gold,
What awaits
Up your sleeve,
Still untold,
Kept in trust
Since times old?
For The Daily Post
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Fledgling stories
Flap immature wings
In my mind,
Inchoate plots
I don’t yet
Understand.
They unfurl
Like the leaves
From a still tight closed bud –
A surprise
For the growth
That awaited
Inside.
For The Daily Post
Photo: Amitai Asif
Spill the beans
On what is
And never
Should’ve made
Secret.
Share the stories
You know
And others
Also
Have lived.
Find the balance
Between
Private stashes
Of sorrow
And the tender joys
To be had
In remembering
Both.
For The Daily Post
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