Seedling
ironwood seedling
does not strive to be cactus
or chrysanthemum
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Posted on September 24, 2013, in 5-7-5, Arizona, Carpe Diem, haiku, Haiku Heights, ironwood, September Heights 2013, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona and tagged 5-7-5, haiku, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona. Bookmark the permalink. 20 Comments.
Magical Mystical Teacher 
Tough little plant has a mind of its own and knows what it wants to be!! Perfect!!
A lovely take on the prompt…
Nice 🙂
you spotted the right seedling…… 🙂 nice one…..
A powerful proverb in the making 🙂
Excellent. Well done.
have a nice Wednesday
much love…
This ironwood (me) has to remember to stop wishing I’d been born a chrysanthemum. Thanks for the reminder. Good one. 🙂
Very nice – why bother striving to be something you’re not? Had Lao Tzu had written haiku, he couldn’t have done better!
Really enjoyed this – it works very well and original too.
This is a wonderful take on chooyoo … a surprising take …
chrysanthemum nods
to ironwood and cactus
none of them covets
Cheers
Words to live by. I love it.
That’s about right for people too! Just be what you are created to be! Well done!
WoW…great post. Perfect reminder to accept who one is.
Peace
Siggi
Most people would rather be anything than cactus 😉
A Bunch Of Chrysanthemum
Aren’t you being rather prickly? 😉
So you get my point 😉
Touch!
This is different. A plant with a mind of its own…and all metaphors that go with that determination.
I thought every seedling dreamt to be a chrysantemum .. reminds me of H.C. Anderssen the fir tree http://hca.gilead.org.il/fir_tree.html