Photo: Ofir Asif
Like a rickety bridge
Over fast,
Troubled water,
Calm your heart
As you cross
To what awaits
Being told.
Trust connections
You fear but
Cannot test or
Strengthen,
With no promise
They won’t pull away,
Break,
Or fold.
Like a rickety bridge
Over fast,
Troubled water,
Take a chance,
Make a step,
And weave new paths
To your old.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Connections
Photo: Ofir Asif
Three sentinels
Stand determined.
Moody and muddy
Rooted
They brace against
The eddies
And the flow
Of oars and flotsam,
Ever mobile,
Passing by.
For Calmkate’s Friday Foto Fun: Moody
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Draw a line in the water
To hold a boundary
For speed,
Where the motors
Rush inward,
For horizon
To meet.
Float a line strung together
Of what floats
And won’t sink,
So you can
After sunset
Draw it home
And night
Concede.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: In or on the water
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
When the push
Comes to shove
And a full stop
Recommended,
Put a rock
‘Hind to lock
So any roll
Is suspended.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Roll
Photo: Amitai Asif
I am worn,
But not weary.
I’ve weathered many
A winter,
Warmed multiple
Frozen hands,
Filled long lines
Of empty
Stomachs
With stews and soups of
All kinds.
I’ve seen good times
And not so,
Heard voices
Soft
And too loud.
I’ve dried the wet
Off of feet,
The tears off
Of cheeks,
Eased the sorrow of
Broken hearts.
I am worn,
But not weary.
Grab a spoon,
Find a bowl,
And take a seat
By my side.
For the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Weathered or worn
Photo: Amitai Asif
No mortar
No wheel
No motors to wield,
Yet time
And the elements
Toppled not what they’d built.
The wonder, the magic,
The near perfect
Craftsmanship:
Machu Picchu
Continues
To hold awe
In its grip.
For the Tuesday Photo Challenge: Wonder
Photo: Amitai Asif
There she stands,
Belongs,
Enlivened
By the land
That mountains birthed,
And the knowledge
Of the power
That she holds
Through Mother Earth.
For the Photo for the Week Challenge: portrait
“Used to be a zoo,” Ol’ Joe stuffed his cheek full of chewing tobacco. No frowning from Mama could make him give it up.
I gazed at the empty parking lot. We kept the market open by sheer willpower and another mortgage.
Mama often argued it was money down the drain, but Pops would shake his head. “History is a merry-go-round, Penny. It’ll come back. We just have to hang in there a little longer.”
Then the two of them would look at Ol’ Joe, and I knew: closing the business would kill him. Grandpop’s life was tied into Route 66.
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Photo: Amitai Asif
Norway fjord
Smooth as glass
Flowing cold
Through mountains’ pass.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Smooth
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
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