Category Archives: desert
Macro Monday 2: Discarded
Someone uprooted and discarded a massive succulent in the desert near Yuma, Arizona.
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Requiem
A desert scene near Ajo, Arizona.
Twilight requiem—
a frightened lizard cowers
somewhere in the stones.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Scattered
Broken dinnerware, littering the desert near Yuma, Arizona
Can these scattered shards be repaired?
Photo and text © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Glow
Palo verde trees in bloom as shadows lengthen, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona, March 2015
“Let your colors out,”
the sky says to the desert,
“let your colors out.”
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Even at dusk the blossoms glow.
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Beguiling
A creosote bush, left, and a palo verde tree seem to be conversing, while clouds and mountains listen, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Both bushes and trees
beguile the clouds with stories,
waiting for moonrise.
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Nowhere
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
from my vantage point
along the way to nowhere—
one thin note of hope
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Shrine
Remains of a dead Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis), Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
stripped of every leaf
willow in the wilderness—
desolation’s shrine
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Thorny
Prickly Poppy (Argemone pleiacantha) seed pods at dawn, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
It is difficult
on the dark and thorny way—
stories no one tells.
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Streams
Beavertail Cactus (Opuntia basilaris) in bloom, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
a single blossom
renewing the streams of light
in sorrow’s old house
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Wastelands
Ocotillo blossoms, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
Something in the air
compels the ocotillo
to call wastelands home.
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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