Category Archives: haiku
Sunflowers
Sunflowers blossom at Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden, Yuma, Arizona.
On a wintry day
in southern Arizona
sunflowers still bloom.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Labor
On a clear day watchers from the tower at Tuzigoot National Monument, Arizona could see for miles.
Winter afternoon—
where the women once ground corn,
shadows labor now.
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Snowflakes
Palm fronds seem to pierce the winter clouds at Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden, Yuma, Arizona.
Deepening winter—
I look in vain for snowflakes
on the palm tree’s fronds.
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New Coat
A snowy forest in northern New Mexico.
last days of the year—
even the old pine forest
puts on a new coat
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New Home
A newly built birdhouse awaits its first occupants at Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona.
Little brown sparrow,
will you make this house your home
before the wren does?
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Windmill
A windmill stands still on a windless December day at Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden , Yuma, Arizona.
Blades of the windmill—
how many times will they turn
before I reach home?
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Three Haiku for Winter
Palo verde tree on a wintry afternoon, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona.
Winter afternoon—
a nearly empty sky fills
with sudden birdsong.
first winter shower—
milkweed fluff from shattered pods
flying everywhere
Our ancestors knew
how to use needle and thread
to patch a torn sky.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
Weight
A gravesite memorial seems ready to fall at Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona.
among the tombstones
one leaning memorial—
the weight of winter
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Footbridge
Entrance to Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden, Yuma, Arizona.
Crossing the footbridge,
I find a desert garden,
but no gardener.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
Prayer House
Old adobe building, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Preserve, Riverside County, California.
little house of prayer
in the shadows of the oak—
come, O Spirit, come
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
