Category Archives: blossom
Macro Monday 2: Mesquite
Mesquite blossoms, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Photo © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Forage
Prickly poppies, Yuma County, Arizona
Who’s the inventor that dreamed up this plant?
Its prickles and stems play host to the ant;
Honeybees forage for midmorning sweets
Deep in the blossoms where they find rich treats.
Poem and photo © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Complicated
Ocotillo blossoms, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
Shadow, bloom, and thorn—
how complicated the soul
of the wilderness!
Haiku © 2018 and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Fading
Fading bougainvillea blossoms on a trash heap, Wellton, Arizona
What is there to celebrate
When the brilliant blossoms fade?
Who rejoices at such loss?
Are not tender souls dismayed?
And yet in fading flowers
We see clearly what we are:
Blooms that shrivel at day’s end,
Leaving nothing near or far.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Windless
Indigo bush blossoms, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
a windless morning
no movement among blossoms
littering the ground
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blush
Ocotillo blossoms during the spring 2017 “super bloom” at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
Little cactus wren,
the ocotillo blossoms
blush to hear you sing.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Saguaro flowers
Saguaro cactus blossoms, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Saguaro flowers glowing
Against the bright blue sky
Fill me with greatest pleasure,
And here’s the reason why:
I think there’s nothing finer
Than seeing a white bloom
Juxtaposed against the sky
To chase away my gloom.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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From the ashes
Ocotillo blossoms during the spring 2017 “super bloom,” Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
Although these blooms are lovely,
They will not come again;
Blasted by the desert heat,
They vanished with the wind.
Yet I believe the promise
That beauty will arise
From the ashes of these blooms
To grace the desert skies.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Marigolds
Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden, Yuma, Arizona
We biked into the garden,
Where marigolds did bloom.
We thought we’d have a picnic
In this fine outdoor room.
We spread a checkered blanket,
Near where we laid our bikes;
We nibbled cheese, sipped some wine,
And listened to the shrikes.
Text and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Lighting
Palo verde blossoms, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Lighting the desert with new blossoms…
Text and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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