Photo: Amitai Asif
Reach out to those frozen
In the ill at ease place
Of unfamiliar
Meeting known.
Note the edge of green
On those still a tad tender
Around the social gills.
A kind word can steady
Many an awkward gait
Upon fiddly ice
Still awaiting to break.
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Photo: Atara Katz
Every man is an island:
Unique,
Not above.
Yet some sadly equate
Ego-worship,
With love.
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Photo: David J. Fred
She refused to retreat
In the face of defeat.
She pursed lips, furrowed brow,
Still the bead would not bow.
Pushed into the string’s knot
It slid off … yet she fought.
All suggestions were waived
She refused to be saved.
Five more minutes she spent
String nor bead would relent.
Just as frustration frayed …
Cookies came to her aid.
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Photo: Elie Max Kichka
It is all as it should be
It is all as it ought
Whether we at the moment realize it
Or not.
When the time seems unripe
Let yourself
Be assured:
What may seem incomplete
Or half-prepared to endure
Is nonetheless just
Perfectly premature.
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Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
It can spread.
It can blight.
It can seek a new host
To infect
With malaise.
But the ill
Need not creep
Onto me
Onto thy.
We can rise
Above rudeness.
Inoculate
Against hate.
We can choose to
Remain
Stubbornly
Humane.
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Photo: Ofir Asif
In the lineage of eras
Where fossils yet live
Ancestry beyond measure
Offers paths to believe.
Time unfolds on itself
Memories seek a reprieve
As humble roots we all share
Still continue to give.
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Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
In the slight
Slender light
They remained
Holding tight
To the vestige of dusk
In the incoming night.
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What may seem all
Lopsided
May in fact be
Quite straight,
While what purports to be
Level
May be completely
Bent.
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Photo: Amitai Asif
Tree by tree
It becomes.
Acorns
Saplings
Alder
Gum.
Branch by branch
Green and dun.
Creepers
Leaners
Holders on.
A woodland
Is more than its
Sum.
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Photo: Inbar Asif
Be a rebel
Today
Against old ways
That no longer
Nourish
And worries
That hold back
The changes
You know
Your soul
Needs.
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