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Love Gave Up
Dark and light spoke fragrant things,
Gardens gathered strength by night;
Love, though fragile, sprouted wings,
Crying out as it took flight.
Fighting chance? Oh, love had none!
Hearing that a storm would pass,
Blotting out the noonday sun,
Love gave up—alack! alas!
Poem © 2019 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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The Parting
“I know that I will miss you,” he said with a slight shrug.
“But the cat has lost its tail, there’s darkness on the rug,
And cruelty is sport for fools, of which I am one;
Better we should part this day, and let the deed be done.”
“I will not discourage you,” she said without a sigh.
“You’ve been just short of horrible in all the years gone by.
You thought that I was fragile, you thought I was a toad,
But I withstood your onslaughts—now go, and hit the road!”
Poem © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Imprint
Climbing the pyramid at La Cañada de la Virgen, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
each step of the way
bearing the fragile imprint
of the pilgrim’s breath
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Peony
Teahouse, Japanese Friendship Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
in fragile white cups
hidden within the teahouse—
peony blossoms
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Clinging
Ironwood tree with bird’s nest at daybreak, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
last year’s fragile nest
still clinging to the branches—
a hundred windstorms
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Ravenous
Mesquite blossoms at daybreak, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
soon to be devoured
fragile yellow pollen grains
ravenous the sand
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Shifting
Blossoms of a small barrel cactus, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
lasting but an hour—
a nest of fragile blossoms
built in shifting sand
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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