Category Archives: Haiku My Heart
Waiting
A street festooned with blue banderas, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México.
waiting for a breeze
a hundred blue banderas
bluer than the sky
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Cloudless
A clear blue sky and some gnarled branches welcome visitors to the Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona.
Cloudless April day—
I walk in desolation,
consoled by birdsong.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Nectar
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California.
Will you find nectar
beyond the mountain’s shadow,
desert butterfly?
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Watching
Cholla cactus at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
For cactus blossoms
I keep watching and waiting—
a crow watches me.
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Broken
A broken-down farm wagon finds its final resting place at Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona.
for the long journey
nothing but a broken wheel
and a raven’s cry
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Sparkling Clean
An alley in Phoenix, Arizona almost sparkles at the end of trash-removal day.
after the trash truck
hauls away all the castoffs—
slim pickings for rats
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Nest
Little creatures make their homes among the ruins at Tuzigoot National Monument, Arizona.
Hidden in the stones,
a nest of weeds and grasses
keeps a sparrow safe.
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Afternoon
A nearly cloudless blue sky welcomes visitors to the Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona.
winter afternoon—
instead of snow, some shadows
and a lonesome dove
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Rainfall
Winter rains leave patches of green in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California.
a little rainfall
and the wilderness turns green—
winter afternoon
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Shadows
Nighttime shadows surround a house in Yuma County, Arizona.
On a wintry night
in southern Arizona
shadows multiply.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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