Day: November 27, 2024

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Writing from home

Yona

I rise above you higher than any of you would yearn to reach
Above the throngs of congregating people
Crying, grieving, trying to make sense
From your view on the ground.

But my view is vast
And open.

417 days I lay hovering in the shadow of God
But now I see rays of light above the clouds
No shadow
Just God.

Hila Bar November 27, 2024

The Bibas Family Haiku Project

The characters will be a mother (Imma) and her two young sons in honor of the mother Shiri Bibas and her two sons, Kfir and Ariel, brutally ripped from their home in Israel and taken hostage by Hamas terrorists where they have been held apart from their father Yarden Bibas (also a hostage) in the labyrinthine tunnels of Gaza since 7 October 2023 and continuing.

Jessica Ursell November 27, 2024