Crowded
Posted by magicalmysticalteacher
The tombs are crowded,
with space at a premium—
Mary doesn’t mind.
Text and photo © 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Photo: Panteon Municipal (Municipal Cemetery), Zapopan, Jalisco, México
More A-Virgin-a-Day photos and stories at Recuerda Mi Corazon here
More Haiku Heights with the theme “Space” here
More Straight Out of the Camera shots here
More Mellow Yellow Monday photos here
More Shadow Shot Sunday photos here
More Ruby Tuesday photos here
with space at a premium—
Mary doesn’t mind.
Text and photo © 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Photo: Panteon Municipal (Municipal Cemetery), Zapopan, Jalisco, México
More A-Virgin-a-Day photos and stories at Recuerda Mi Corazon here
More Haiku Heights with the theme “Space” here
More Straight Out of the Camera shots here
More Mellow Yellow Monday photos here
More Shadow Shot Sunday photos here
More Ruby Tuesday photos here
Posted on December 4, 2011, in A Virgin a Day, Haiku Heights, Jalisco, Mellow Yellow Monday, Mexico, Ruby Tuesday, senryu, Shadow Shot Sunday, Straight Out of the Camera Sunday, Zapopan. Bookmark the permalink. 23 Comments.
Leave a Reply Cancel reply
-
Categories
- (Silly) Haiku Wednesday (1)
- A Virgin a Day (15)
- acrostic poems (1)
- administrators (6)
- Adrienne Rich (3)
- Advent (70)
- Alameda García de la Cadena (3)
- Alpine (1)
- American history (1)
- American presidents (1)
- Anza-Borrego Desert (25)
- Arizona (449)
- arroyo (1)
- aster (2)
- autumn (6)
- back to school (1)
- bereavement (6)
- Bible (17)
- billboard (1)
- birthday (1)
- bitterness (1)
- blessings (2)
- Blog Blast for Peace (1)
- blossom (3)
- Blue Monday (44)
- Bonelli House (1)
- books (2)
- Breyten Breytenbach (1)
- Cabrillo National Monument (6)
- California (52)
- Canada (1)
- Carl Sandburg (1)
- Carry on Tuesday (39)
- cathedral (1)
- cemetery (18)
- Cerro de la Bufa (8)
- change (3)
- Chinatown (6)
- Cholula (12)
- Christmas (12)
- church (2)
- Circle of Love for Spadoman (1)
- civility (4)
- classroom (1)
- classroom management (15)
- clowns (1)
- cobblestones (1)
- collegiality (2)
- comprehension (3)
- conscientious objection (1)
- consequences (2)
- CPR (1)
- cut-and-pasted poems (8)
- death (7)
- decisions (1)
- defiance (3)
- desert (20)
- Dia de Bloglandia (2)
- Dia de Los Muertos (8)
- Diamond Head (1)
- dilemma (1)
- disciple (1)
- dodoitsu (3)
- door (3)
- Down syndrome (1)
- earthquake (1)
- elderly (1)
- encouraging words (6)
- end of school year (1)
- end of summer (1)
- erode (1)
- Escondido (1)
- evaluation (1)
- evening sky (1)
- Ewa (5)
- faith (1)
- fall (1)
- family (5)
- Father's Day (1)
- fence (35)
- figurative language (2)
- first aid (1)
- first days of school (9)
- First of the Month (1)
- First-year teacher (7)
- Floral Friday Fotos (50)
- flowers (19)
- Fotokalender (1)
- found poems (9)
- fountain (1)
- freebies (1)
- Friday's Fences (57)
- frost (5)
- Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery (1)
- garden (2)
- gardening (2)
- gifts (1)
- Glendale (2)
- grades (2)
- grading (1)
- grandmother (1)
- Guachimontones (4)
- Guadalajara (15)
- Guadalupe (3)
- guidance (1)
- haibun (17)
- haiku (458)
- Haiku Bones (39)
- Haiku Heights (315)
- Haiku My Heart (294)
- Haiku My Heart Friday (33)
- Haiku Rebecca's Heart (2)
- Haiku the Heart of Joe Spadoman (4)
- Haiti (1)
- Halloween (1)
- harvest (1)
- Hawaii (37)
- heart (1)
- Hi Jolly Cemetery (2)
- hidden (1)
- Highlight Sunday (2)
- highly qualified teachers (6)
- hillside (1)
- Himmelsk (256)
- holy (1)
- holy ground (1)
- homecoming (3)
- Honolulu (13)
- hope (3)
- Hubbell Trading Post (8)
- Huichol (8)
- humor (8)
- I Heart Macro (83)
- idiocy (2)
- illiteracy (3)
- imagery (1)
- in-service (3)
- indolence (2)
- insomnia (2)
- irony (1)
- Jalisco (108)
- Japanese Literature Challenge 3 (1)
- Japanese poetry (1)
- Jardín Juárez (2)
- Jesus (2)
- job hunt (10)
- journey (1)
- joy (1)
- Kaibab National Forest (3)
- Kentucky (9)
- kid talk (2)
- kidspeak (3)
- kindness (2)
- Kingman (3)
- koi (1)
- Kuan Yin Temple (2)
- Laie (1)
- language arts (1)
- laughter (2)
- leadership (2)
- learning (1)
- Lent (3)
- lesson plans (1)
- lessons (4)
- Lexington (8)
- Life in Pictures (1)
- listening (5)
- Long Beach (3)
- longevity (1)
- Looking at the Sky on Friday (22)
- lullaby (1)
- Luna (3)
- Luna Cemetery (2)
- Macro Flowers Saturday (8)
- Macro Monday (102)
- Makaha (3)
- Malecón (1)
- Mandagstema (5)
- market (2)
- Mellow Yellow Monday (239)
- mentors (1)
- mercado (1)
- merit pay (2)
- metaphors (1)
- Mexico (286)
- Mexico Mondays (6)
- middle school (8)
- Mina el Edén (1)
- Mission Quite Possible (1)
- Mission San Juan Capistrano (10)
- Mission San Xavier del Bac (40)
- mnemonics (1)
- Monday Poetry Train Revisited (95)
- Moses (1)
- Mrs. Scribe's Poetry Slam (1)
- Murrieta (11)
- Museo de Guadalupe (2)
- Museo Zacatecano (8)
- my digital photos (884)
- my dodoitsu (4)
- my haiku (553)
- my light verse (24)
- my limerick (24)
- my poetry (14)
- my senryu (319)
- my tanka (13)
- NaiSaiKu (2)
- Nanakuli (3)
- NaPoWriMo (64)
- national monumnet (1)
- NCLB (4)
- New Mexico (24)
- New Testament (1)
- New Year (1)
- Northern Arizona (234)
- Northern California (5)
- Oahu (35)
- observe (1)
- old age (1)
- Old Testament (1)
- One Shot Wednesday (2)
- One Single Impression (175)
- OneWord (1)
- Palacio de Gobierno (1)
- Panama (34)
- parades (4)
- patience (3)
- peace (1)
- Pearl Harbor (4)
- Phoenix (2)
- Photo Time (1)
- Pi-Ku (1)
- PicStory (19)
- Poetic Bloomings (31)
- poetry (12)
- Poetry Pantry (10)
- Poetry Picnic (50)
- Poetry Tow Truck (2)
- Poetry Train (6)
- Poets United (7)
- Point Loma (2)
- politics (1)
- Polynesian Cultural Center (1)
- Post Your Poems Day (6)
- Postcards from Paradise (111)
- Postcards from the Edge (1)
- pray (1)
- Pray-As-You-Go (1)
- praying (2)
- Prescott (10)
- profanity (2)
- Proverbs (2)
- Psalm Challenge (7)
- Psalms (15)
- Puebla (28)
- Puerto Vallarta (38)
- Punchbowl (2)
- Quartzsite (3)
- Rancho Los Alamitos (6)
- random rhymes (1)
- re-teaching (3)
- reading (9)
- Real Toads (4)
- Recuerda Mi Corazon (23)
- recycling (2)
- Red Hot Mondays (3)
- REDnesday (243)
- reflections (4)
- relationships (16)
- Richard Shelton (1)
- Riverside Art Museum (6)
- Robert B. Parker (1)
- rooftops (5)
- Ruby Tuesday (244)
- Ruby Tuesday 2 (70)
- safety (1)
- San Andrés Cholula (1)
- San Diego (5)
- San Juan County (4)
- San Sebastian (16)
- San Sebastián del Oeste (1)
- Santa Rosa Plateau (13)
- school (1)
- Scripture (26)
- Scripture for the day (3)
- Seattle (53)
- seedtime (1)
- senryu (214)
- Sensational Haiku Wednesday (285)
- seventh grade (1)
- Shadow Shot Sunday (241)
- Shadow Shot Sunday 2 (100)
- shadows (4)
- Share the Joy (2)
- Share the Joy Thursday (70)
- Short Story Slam (1)
- Shu Ting (1)
- similes (1)
- singing (2)
- Six-Word Saturday (113)
- Sky Watch Friday (323)
- SkyFriday (6)
- snow (3)
- Sonoran Desert (36)
- Southern Arizona (2)
- Southern California (94)
- Southern Mojave Desert (4)
- special education (1)
- special education teacher (1)
- St. John's Catholic Cemetery (8)
- stairs (4)
- stones (2)
- storytelling (2)
- Straight Out of the Camera Sunday (380)
- strengths (2)
- student art (5)
- students (3)
- Stumbling Towards Ecstasy (13)
- success (2)
- suicide (4)
- summer (1)
- summer school (16)
- Sunday Scribblings (71)
- sundown (16)
- sunflowers (6)
- sunrise (4)
- sunset (18)
- surviving (2)
- Tackle It Tuesday (4)
- teacher (12)
- teaching (45)
- teleférico (1)
- Temecula (3)
- temple (2)
- Templo de Fátima (2)
- Templo de Guadalupito (1)
- Tequila (9)
- tests (1)
- Teuchitlán (4)
- thankfulness (4)
- The April Heights 2012 (57)
- The Haiku Challenge 2012 (56)
- The Height of Haiku Challenge (75)
- The One-Minute Writer (34)
- The Poetry Pantry (92)
- The Purple Treehouse (20)
- The Sunday Whirl (55)
- The Think Tank Thursday (2)
- The Thursday Think Tank (63)
- thinking (2)
- Three Word Wednesday (28)
- Thursday 13 (2)
- Thursday Challenge (23)
- Thursday Poets' Rally (5)
- Thursday Think Tank (9)
- Tina's PicStory (1)
- tired (1)
- Tlaquepaque (10)
- Tonalá (8)
- travel (2)
- Tucson (43)
- turf wars (1)
- turtle (1)
- tutoring (1)
- Uncategorized (39)
- understanding (1)
- unfinished work (3)
- USS Arizona (3)
- Vancouver Island (43)
- vision (1)
- vocabulary (1)
- Waianae (6)
- war (1)
- Watery Wednesday (153)
- We Write Poems (95)
- weariness (8)
- weeds (2)
- Weekday Photos (2)
- Weekend Mailbox (2)
- Weekend Reflections (21)
- whimsy (2)
- whisper (1)
- wilderness (3)
- wildflowers (36)
- winter (5)
- wisdom (1)
- Wixáritari (1)
- Wordless Wednesday (2)
- work (1)
- World War II (2)
- writing (9)
- Yokohama Bay (5)
- Zacatecas (118)
- Zapopan (17)
Hi!
Very pretty memorial. Have a great day!
Sherrie
Food for Thought
Beautiful memorial ~ thanks, namaste, Carol (A Creative Harbor)
This is one colorful virgin!
mary, the quintessential queen of acceptance.
you have honored her well!
She is colorful. I think it shows that the cultural attitude toward death is quite different here. No stone angels or sad figures, but a bright madonna. She stands tall and prayerful. Lovely.
Why do bone-yards always feel like happy places to me?
Maybe because the soul is free…
Beautiful photo♥♥♥
That’s why we don’t count the Mary statues we see at churches and cemeterys when we play our “:Mary” game. There are a lot of them.
Peace
The more the merrier (pun intended)
Love to you this day and always.
That’s a beautiful one, when we travel we always look for older cemetarys to
poke around in. Thanks.
I posted Our Lady of Guadalupe today too!!! I do love yours!!
Mary always has room no matter what. Such an example of unconditional love for us all.
beautiful…your haiku’s are masterful…good morning…
Such beauty in these tombstones!
Delightful picture and haiku!
Beautiful image of the Virgin. Have a fabulous week.
Holding Hands
Mango Snow Ice
You are indeed very very good with this form….. this is beautifully expressed…to see, to think and then to write it right.. wow!!! Hats off MMT..
The Rosales/Medina family obviously takes the time to honor its dead, as do most people in Latin culture. Visiting the cemetery and our departed beloveds was something we did regularly when I was a kid but I rarely visit anymore. I’m so glad many others continue to bless their loved ones with time, memories and care.
So poignant! and moving in its stillness
Cosy!
Sue x
Beautiful haiku and pic accompanying it
Hank
That’s pretty..
Visiting for MYM! Hope you can visit mine too..
http://www.cassandrasminicorner.com/2011/12/yellow-octupos-kids-cart.html
Always loved tombstones. They are peaceful. Great Haiku
Melanie
This photo reminds me of St. Louis Cemetery in NOLA – it has a number, but I cannot remember it – where probably 20 people from my father’s side of the family are all interred in one of these above ground “boxes.” All of the stones are almost touching there are so many of these burial sites.. They are like little above ground houses for the deceased. This one gravestone with the Virgin Mary it so typical. A lovely shot. genie