Category Archives: haiku
Sparrows
Desert Globe Mallow, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
to the last blossom
sparrows trill an empty song—
west wind scatters notes
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Sparrows”
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More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Empty
Empty swing, Southern Arizona
empty swing
no more childish laughter
funeral at 10
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Carpe Diem: “Alexey Andreyev’s ‘Empty Swing'”
Holybell
Mission San Juan Capistrano, Southern California
holybell
ringing fears away
ding dong ding
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More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Snooze
Neglected fence at sundown, Temecula, California
The old cat Evening
curls under a barbed-wire fence
for a little snooze.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Fence”
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Ironwood
ironwood
singing down the sun
one more time
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Desecration
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
how a thunderbolt
hurled from Zeus’s mighty hand
desecrates a tree
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Carpe Diem: “Zeus”
New Snow
Apache County, Arizona
You can’t step into the same river—or wilderness—twice. Something is always shifting. Something added today will be subtracted tomorrow.
Winds fray the grasses. Blowing sand burnishes the stone. A hungry hawk hovers overhead and the mouse runs for cover, leaving tiny tracks.
A midnight snowfall dusts tumbleweeds and junipers, cacti and spent wildflowers. I walk through a sparkling wonderland that yesterday was brown and barren.
In the desert, snow doesn’t last long: wonderland today, mud tomorrow, dust the day after that. Yet in all seasons, I love wild places.
Romancing a place, just as romancing a person, takes dedication. You set yourself to the task for better or worse; for richer or poorer; in sun or in snow, praying that indifference never tames the wild longings of your heart.
are singing in the washes
snowflakes kiss the notes
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Carpe Diem: “Garry Gay’s ‘New Snow'”
Symbiosis
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
familiar faces—
thirsty roots and barren sands
nuzzling each other
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Symbiotic”
Threnody
Saguaro cactus, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
desert threnody
an old saguaro keening
for its glory days
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Carpe Diem: “Threnody”
Resting Place
Wayside shrine, Ajo, Arizona
On their homeward way
harried winds turn in to rest,
curling in the shrine.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Garry Gay’s ‘Along the Way'”
More Mornings with Mary at Recuerda Mi Corazon
