Photo: Amitai Asif
They gazed forlorn
Into the light,
Into the lumber
Burning bright.
All that they’d known
Before this plight,
Now kept them warm
Through heartache’s night.
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Photo: Atara Katz
As you rumble along
Under skies
Blue like song,
Do you travel
Afar
To the past
In this car?
What new memories
You’d share
Of what’s found
Over there?
Do days gone
Still speed on
Scene by scene
Gray and green
By the glean
Of your machine?
For the Sunday Stills Challenge: Vintage
Photo: Inbar Asif
Sky and clouds
Take a swim
As day fills
To the brim,
And the light
Lets you know:
As above
So below.
For the Sunday Stills challenge: Reflect
Photo: Atara Katz
May your day be lit
By sun
And new grown things
On path to home
And love within.
May the closing year
Bring calm
And blushing joy
And flowered hope
For what begins.
For Sunday Stills: Something Red
Photo: R. Yehuda
The doorbell rings
The gate stays open
As they trickle, stream, come in.
Sisters, brothers, nieces, cousins,
Nephews, parents, aunts and uncles,
And new additions to the scene.
Candles lit and babies cuddled,
In the kitchen tied-up aprons swirl
As busy hands ready cuisine.
A phone is passed:
A distant caller
Hellos each loved one from the screen.
The rooms are filled
The hearts are fuller.
Another year of treasured family din.
For the Sunday Stills Challenge: Traditions
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
In less toured
But more lived-in
Where the city
Does sleep,
Amidst tall
Modern buildings
Walk-up homes
Wrapped in trees.
For the Sunday Stills challenge: in your town
For the Sunday Trees challenge
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Thankful still for life’s living
Thankful still
For the hope
That each breath that’s drawn in
Can begin
And can bring.
Thankful still, if hadn’t always
For the ebb
And the flow
Of small joys and big sorrows
As they come
And they go
As we grow
And we know.
For the Sunday Stills Challenge: Thankful
Photo: Ofir Asif
Hanging twixt
Earth and sky,
An arm waves
Sure and high,
Swinging ropes,
Fit to fly.
For the Sunday Stills challenge: fitness
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Orange heads
Large and small
Shelved and perched
In the mall
For each person
To haul
Home a flavor
Of fall.
For the October Photo a Day Challenge: Pumpkins
And for Sunday Stills: Orange
Photo: Philip Coons
Mirrored skies
Puffs of glow
As above
Snow below.
For the Sunday Stills Photo Challenge: Texture
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