Category Archives: haiku
Fresh
A sunflower blooms at Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden, Yuma, Arizona.
When sunflowers bloom,
sparrows light up the garden
with fresh morning songs.
Haiku and photo by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Light
An earthenware jar sits on a stone ledge in Zapopan, Mexico.
Languid afternoon—
the light inside a clay jar
seeps to the surface.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Picnic
Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona.
Party-crashing ants
help themselves to chips and cake
at our picnic lunch.
~~ ~~ ~~
We fixed ourselves a picnic, we munched among the dead,
For it was in the graveyard that our feast was spread.
The ants came uninvited and helped themselves to cake;
Now we see that picnicking was a huge mistake!
Poems and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Listening
Hikers can see for miles on the trail above Pipe Spring National Monument near Fredonia, Arizona.
Pausing on the trail,
I listen to my heartbeat
and a scolding crow.
Haiku and photo © 2019 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Stage
A retired tractor lives out its last days in the tranquility of the Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden, Yuma, Arizona.
An old green tractor
becomes a shadowy stage
for spring’s danse macabre.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Shady Place
Afternoon shadows settle in a drainage ditch in Yuma, Arizona.
In a shady place
I stop to rest and listen—
a mourning dove sings.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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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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Blue Monday: Standing Watch
La Virgen de Guadalupe stands watch over a grave. Wellton Memorial Cemetery, Wellton, Arizona.
deeper than winter
longer than any shadow
love that never ends
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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