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
Stories We Tell
SYW
Favorites
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Listing favorites can take days,
Shuffled as they are in time and space,
But here are a few that my spirit
Will always embrace:
Beach and surf,
Little toes,
The peal of
Children’s laughter,
A good tale, a new book,
And loved ones
To look after.
For Cee’s Share Your World: July 23 2018
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Ocean Ohm
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
As the world tilts between breath
And release,
As the sea ebbs and flows
Into peace,
I remember my core
The heartbeat
Of my soul,
Batteries filled again
Making my spirit
Whole.
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Sweet Yum
Photo: Ofir Asif
More than chocolate and ice cream
More than cookies and cake
Fruit will forever first place
In my heart take!
For Cee’s Share Your World: July 9
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My Neighbor’s Bike
Photo by Afta Putta Gunawan on Pexels.com
My first bike
Was a neighbor’s bike.
“Too many hills,” my mom had said
As if topography in any way diminished
The accelerated thrill
Of legs off pedals
From the top of the rise
To our street.
There was no arguing
Or vowing to share and never fight.
We knew her words were code
For “we cannot afford.”
But my sister’s friend across the street
Did have a bike
And with it the absolute power to dispense
Rides, routes, direction, and duration.
There were no training wheels
To ease one in.
There was no question of admitting
Complete lack of experience
And risking an evaporated offer.
So it was guts and trepidation
A stranglehold on the handlebar
And the utter exhilaration
Of flying.
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Cookie Share
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“Now it’s my turn to ask you a question,” she said. “And you have to answer.”
“Fair enough,” I smiled. After all, I’d just subjected this child to a long list of questions to which she had to respond.
“What if,” she began, twinkle-eyed, “you had only one cookie, but you needed to share it with fifty kids?”
“Hmm …” I pondered. “That’s a tough one. One cookie only?”
“Yep!” She raised her eyebrows in satisfaction at what had to be my stupefied expression.
“Can I hand out something else instead?” I bargained.
“Nope. One cookie, fifty kids.” The eight-year-old was utterly too pleased with herself.
I smelled a rat but I wasn’t going to show it. She’d earned this after soldiering on through the difficult portions of the testing battery. “I give up.” I raised my hands in surrender. “I don’t see how I can split one cookie between fifty kids.”
“I never said how big the cookie had to be, did I?” she chortled. “If you have a gigantic humongous cookie it would be easy peasy to have everyone share it!”
For Cee’s Share Your World June-18-2018
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Mind Travel
Photo: Inbar Asif
How does time spiral on itself
Even as it unfolds to expand
Outwards?
How do the faces that your mind recalls
Rekindle scenes that take you
Backwards?
And how do those refill your hand
With all of what you’re working
Towards?
Maybe it is all as it should
As long as tender hearts reflect their kindness
Onwards.
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A Shared World
Central Park, NYC; Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
In the midst of the bustle,
The hectic,
The cramped,
A shared world
Sprawls lush green:
Just a few steps
Within
A deep breath
And some peace
To partake in.
For Cee’s Share Your World Challenge
Na'ama Yehuda 
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