Category Archives: Haiku My Heart
Star
Wayside flower, Greenlee County, Arizona
how one tiny star
keeps me on the homeward way
lullaby of light
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Hanged
Sunrise on a playground, Southern Arizona
north, south, east, west
neck encompassed by a noose
the hanged man twirls
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Neglected
Clifton, Arizona
Neglected garden—
peering through the sagging gate
an old woman weeps.
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Wilderness Now
“It is hard to say good-bye to beloved flesh,” Madeleine L’Engle writes in Two-Part-Invention. It is also hard to say good-bye to beloved places, but the Sonoran Desert and I will soon part company. The tiny public school, where I have taught since last August, is no longer able to retain all the teachers currently on staff. Because I was one of the last to be hired, I am among the first to be let go. There will be no last-minute reprieve. As I prepare to leave this seared and desolate land I have come to love, I find myself humming a plaintive tune, first sung many thousands of years ago by a disconsolate group of displaced persons: “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” (Psalm 137:4).
suddenly a stream
refreshing weary pilgrims
in the wilderness
The future is uncertain. The wilderness is now.
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Seven Stories
~~ 1 ~~
ravenous kisses
his fumbling with her buttons
their first love story
~~ 2 ~~
Whoever she is,
she knows how to weave stories
he cannot take off.
~~ 3 ~~
how the guitarist
tells stories with his fingers
skipping on the strings
~~ 4 ~~
rusted wheelbarrow
white chickens dripping with rain
sad barnyard story
~~ 5 ~~
For a good journey,
she stitched a bag of stories
to tell round the fire.
~~ 6 ~~
granite grave marker
date of birth and date of death
story etched in stone
~~ 7 ~~
their old love letters
telling stories about them
to her grandchildren
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Scattered
Trailing Milkweed (Sarcostemma hirtellum), Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Who scattered these stars
across wilderness washes
while owls were singing?
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Storytellers
Honeybee on Velvet Mesquite (Prosopis velutina) blossom, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
how the worker bees
share nectar-blossom stories
with the drones back home
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Waiting
Soon-to-be-irrigated cropland, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Waiting for the plow,
a fallow field gathers strength
for nourishing seed.
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Chapel
Penstemon centranthifolius, Shelter Valley, San Diego County, California
Penstemon chapel—
resting place for weary ones
on the desert way.
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Notes of Gold
Wide-throated Monkeyflower (Mimulus brevipes) Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, SoCal
When the desert blooms,
even the shadows rejoice—
tiny notes of gold.
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