Sardines

December 4, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: 100WordChallenge, Crowded, Family, Flash Fiction, Friday Fictioneers, Just for fun, Making do, Micro-fiction, Photo prompt, Tenacity, travel 50 Comments

Photo prompt © Fatima Fakier Deria

“We’ll never all fit,” Sultana groaned.

“Lots of room!” the driver boomed encouragement even as he tightened screws underneath the van.

“C’mon!” Mariam elbowed past her cousin and climbed onto the vehicle, parcels and a flapping hen in hand. “Next one isn’t till dawn.”

Sultana looked around as if better conveyance would miraculously manifest. None did. She sighed, grabbed her packages and hoisted the bleating kid under an arm. She squeezed aboard, the last one on, with barely room enough to sit down.

The door slammed. The goat peed, soaking her lap.

It’ll be a long ride to Jaddati’s farm.

For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers

Temple Textures

October 22, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Bangkok, CFFC, Micro Poetry, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Reclining Buddha, Temple, Textures, Thailand, travel, Wat Pho 4 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

The gray marble

Supports

With leisured rich

Array

The carved squares

And the luxuriating

Pebbled

Head in

Golden display.

Note: The photo was taken at Wat Pho, The Temple of the Reclining Buddha, in Bangkok, Thailand. The pebbled bits represent a small part of the ‘hair’ of the massive Buddha statue. The textures and contrasts of the surfaces were what caught my eye and so the angle of the photo is deliberately ambiguous.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Textures

Why Fly By

October 8, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Amusement Park, Canada, CFFC, Curves, Ditty, Family, fpj-photo-challenge, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Tourism, travel, Wonderland 22 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

As they fly

Passing by

Tumbling through

Loops of sky

To hoot and cry,

They spend the day

Waving high

To Earth defy

As some shake heads

Oh my, oh my

And wonder why…

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Note: These photos are from Canada’s “Wonderland” amusement park in Vaughn, where my family spent a day this past July, high flying and earth-defying while I mostly did the photo-taking and oh-my-why’ing. … 😉 (In the photo above, they are in the three short horizontal lines in free fall on the vertical line, a moment before being turned upside down and sideways and goodness knows what else). It was a delightful day all around (pun?) till I got on one kiddie ride in the afternoon … Now, if you’re into these contraptions, that place is an all out-human-milkshake inventive park, just be warned and don’t be fooled by the miniature height requirements: they start them early and loop-di-doop-whoop-loop even those rides meant for preschoolers. …

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Tourism

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles, curves and arches

Next in Line

October 6, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: airport, expectation, Hong Kong, Lined up, Photo Challenge, Photography, Poetry, Sunday Stills, Thailand, travel 12 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

Framed by

Turquoise water,

Aligned by

Mountains

And turf.

Next in line

For takeoff,

Ere the last leg

To Thailand

And loved ones

And surf.

For the Sunday Stills Photo Challenge: Lines and squares

A Map Of Reminiscing

September 21, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: Canada, Erosion, Flash Fiction, Loss, memories, Micro-fiction, Newfoundland, travel, What Pegman Saw, Writing Challenge, Writing prompt 38 Comments

Green Gardens trail in Gros Morne National Park, NL (Timothy Holmes on Unsplash)

They’d come to Gros Morne every summer. On “Dad Week.” Camp in a tent that always leaked but Dad wouldn’t replace, every patch and glued seam a map of reminiscing. They’d spend days on the meadows, walk the volcanic beach, go down to Old Man’s Cove.

Sal loved all of it. Even the chill and wet and constant hunger (for there was always more Dad aspired to catch than what he’d actually manage to). Sal never complained. He’d give up everything to breathe the ocean and make up stories about pirates in the coves. He’d even downplay the painful rash and sneezing (they never did find which wild-flower he was allergic to, and he didn’t want to, afraid Mom would say he couldn’t go).

Erosion closed his favorite trail, but not his memories.

He gazed at the ocean and wondered if Dad, whose mind was fading, still had his.

For What Pegman Saw: Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada

Triangular Flight

September 1, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Amusement Park, Creative writing, Geometry, Micro Poetry, One Word Sunday, Photo Challenge, Science, Spinning, travel, Triangles 22 Comments

Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein

Undulating trip

On triangular

Height

Soon reaching top speed

In centrifugal

Flight.

For One Word Sunday: Triangles

Locked

August 13, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Current events, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Trauma and Development, Writing Tags: Adversity, Captive, Cruelty, Current affairs, fpj-photo-challenge, Lock, Photo Challenge, Poetry, Thailand, Trauma and Development, travel 32 Comments

Photo: Adi Rozen-Zvi

Life without

Possibility

Of parole.

Robbed of

Freedom.

Wingspan clipped

To the lock

At the end of

A chain

Of events.

Imprisoned

Without fault

But the adversity

And sorrow

Of its birth.

For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Lock

No Prayer Crossing

July 27, 2019July 27, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Muse and Flow, Reflections, Writing Tags: Bhutan, Bridge, Crossing, Fear, Flash Fiction, Height, Karma, Micro-fiction, travel, What Pegman Saw, Writing Challenge 37 Comments

Photo: Faris Mohammed via Unsplash; Punakha, Bhutan

I glanced across the chasm. For someone born and raised in the Alps amidst sharp elevations, I was woefully unequipped. Sometimes I wondered what Karma I’d accumulated to explain it.

“You are protected, Dania.”

I looked up desperately at my mother, who wore an encouraging smile and already had one foot on the swaying bridge and a hand held out to assist me. Even as a baby I’d been known to tremble at the sight of any height, yet Mother’s optimism never wavered that one day her offspring would overcome what to her was an incomprehensible fear. She adored climbing.

Why she took me to Bhutan.

“This bridge is blessed,” my mother tried. “You’ll come to no harm.”

“I cannot,” I whispered, my legs shaking. Each prayer flag a flutter to match mine, the river vertiginous miles below. “No prayer will suffice. My very soul knows it’ll die.”

For What Pegman Saw: Bhutan

Arctic Blue

July 1, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Airplane, Arctic, Blue, Cross Atlantic, Micro Poetry, Perspective, Photo Challenge, Photography, Sky, travel 19 Comments

Photo: Na’ama Yehuda

From above the way

The clouds hold sway

As the Arctic clings on

To the day.

For Becky’s July Blues

Carefree

June 29, 2019November 12, 2019Na'ama Yehuda Anecdotes of Life, Life and love, Meditations, Muse and Flow, Poetry, Reflections, Writing Tags: Beach, Briefly, Carefree, Freedom, Micro Poetry, New Zealand, Ocean, Photo, travel, Weekend Writing Prompt 3 Comments

Photo: Inbar Asif

She could be

Truly carefree

When she strolls

The fine edge

Of the sea.

For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Challenge: Carefree in 14 words

Photo prompt © Fatima Fakier Deria

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