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Walking Home
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Fence at dusk, Temecula, California
Walking home at dusk—
perhaps along the fence line
a peony blooms.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Tags: dusk, fence, haiku, peony, Southern California
Old Cat
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Neglected fence at sundown, Temecula, California
Evenings an old cat
settles under the barbed wire
for a little snooze.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Tags: barbed wire, cat, evenings, fence, haiku, snooze, Southern California, sundown
Flaming Out
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Wellton Memorial Cemetery, Wellton, Arizona
after the battles
a tattered star flaming out
ashes to ashes
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Tags: ashes, battles, haiku, Southern Arizona, star
Neglected
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Clifton, Arizona
Neglected garden—
peering through the sagging gate
an old woman weeps.
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Tags: fence, garden, gate, haiku, Southern Arizona
Ablaze
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Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Desert magician,
did you set the fence ablaze
with a cunning spell?
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Tags: cunning, fence, haiku, magician, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona, spell
Waiting
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Soon-to-be-irrigated cropland, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Waiting for the plow,
a fallow field gathers strength
for nourishing seed.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Chapel
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Penstemon centranthifolius, Shelter Valley, San Diego County, California
Penstemon chapel—
resting place for weary ones
on the desert way.
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Tags: blossom, desert, fence, haiku, penstemon, Southern California, wildflowers
Wedding
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California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) Southern California
On their wedding day,
Earth, clutching golden blossoms,
says her vows to Sky.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Sundown Fence
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Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Someone tell the barbs
not to scar the tender sky—
each star needs a home.
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Crumpled
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Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
In a barren land
a castle fence is crumpled—
will God save the king?
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Tags: haiga, senryu, Sonoran Desert
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