Photo: Atara Katz
She has come to inspect
The tent
The snacks
The gear
The rest.
A gazelle
Wearing smiles
And she’ll stay
For a
While.
Entertainment
It seems
Can be found
On a whim.
For the Word of the Day Challenge: Gazelle
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The Biggest Yield
Photo: João Silas on Unsplash
They never expected it to turn out as it had.
Sure, they hoped their hard work would bear fruit. Of course they put all they had into it. They needed sustenance, which — without gold or title or power or support or skill — meant they had to find a way to raise it.
Through thick and thin and cold and rain and mud and sun.
Some of it with bare hands. Some literally blindly, given their bad eyes.
They did what they felt they had to do. They just never expected to manage quite so well.
Not when all they’d ever been told was how unworthy and incompetent and incapable they were. A burden on others. Unproductive mouths to feed.
They’d soonest have believed they’d amount to nothing than that they’d amount to so much. Or have such plenty.
Enough to get through the winter and the early spring. Enough for next year’s planting. Enough even to give.
They had the biggest yield anyone had seen in years.
They never expected it to turn out as it had.
To have so much to eat, to be able to be those who feed.
It had to be the fairies, dusting magic onto their field.
For the Word of the Day Challenge: Yield
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Life’s Cliff
Photo: Smadar Halperin-Epshtein
Until you manage to get
Past the jagged edges
Of life’s cliff,
You’ll dream of rivers
Soothing through
The valleys
Of What If.
Till then you’ll hold on
To old anchors
That keep you
Safe from doom,
And luxuriate only
In dreams of
Rappelling out
Of your fear’s womb.
For the Word of the Day Challenge: Jagged
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In The Weald
Photo: Inbar Asif
Tucked away in the weald
They heard a lone
Fairy sing
Of the flowers she weaves
And the whispers of leaves
Of old blooms
And new blues
And the elves in the yews.
Merriam-Webster’s word for August 9, 2018:
Weald
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Debunked
So the meetings that were called a lie
Had in fact taken place on the sly
And collusion repeatedly denied
Is now admitted as if justified
While a letter obviously dictated
Proves a propaganda calculated.
No question remains
For anyone who has brains
That those who yell out “Fake-news”
Are the ones who perjure and ruse
Just as they who the fact-finders accuse
Are the ones to truth molest and abuse.
Merriam-Webster’s word for August 8, 2018:
Debunk
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Bereft Of Hope
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If you feel bereft of hope
In view of those who lead
Not by honor
But deceit;
Hold on to the voice of people
Rising
To relieve
Those who cherish false and greed
From the path of harm
They have conceived.
Be strong
Even as you are now
Understandably
Bereaved.
For there will be better days
Ahead
Where heart
Over current swamp,
Succeeds.
Merriam-Webster’s word for August 5, 2018:
Bereft
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Un-Pacified
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One cannot pacify hatred
By fueling more hate,
Just as violence will not be calmed
Via harming.
Arguments aren’t settled
When truths are shut up,
Nor can peace be made by
The war-glorifying.
There is no equality
While oppression is sought
And brutality cannot
Bring on healing.
So rallies where ‘greatness’
Is clothed in cruel acts
Breed not power nor awe
But disdain,
As leadership’s hubris is paid
By the vulnerable
Again and again.
Merriam-Webster’s word for August 3, 2018:
Pacify
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Musket Madness
Plastic muskets laid bare
To the earth and the air
As rogue arms on a dare
Sought excuse to declare
Every day a warfare
Blood and death everywhere
By a print left to share
As weak minds to beware
Turn stale rage to nightmare
While those who ought be aware
Turn blind eye to despair
By their greed fast ensnared.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 31, 2018:
Musket
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Tempestuous Times
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“These are tempestuous times,” she said
And her strong hands wrung the laundered sheets
To squeeze out suds
As she would want
To push out infiltrated evil.
“I’ve seen hardship before,” she stirred
The linens
In the boiling vat,
Simmering the despair
Till it foamed and evaporated
Into bleached hope.
“Wrong does not last,” she rinsed
And wrung
And shook
And hung
The wash
Till it fluttered
Free
To dry,
Only the barest of stains
Still visible
In the sun.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 30, 2018:
Tempestuous
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Freedom’s Curfew
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As a bell tolls
Come dark,
May its sound be a reminder
Of the toll
Exacted from those whose steps
Are hidden,
Whose freedoms are
Forsaken,
And whose voices
Are silenced,
For no fault
But being
Born
Into hardship
And fleeing
Danger zones.
Merriam-Webster’s word for July 28, 2018:
Curfew
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