Category Archives: saguaro cactus
Saguaro flowers
Saguaro cactus blossoms, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Saguaro flowers glowing
Against the bright blue sky
Fill me with greatest pleasure,
And here’s the reason why:
I think there’s nothing finer
Than seeing a white bloom
Juxtaposed against the sky
To chase away my gloom.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Endings
The remains of an old saguaro cactus, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
Endings are often tinged with sadness.
Text and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blossom
Saguaro cactus blossoms, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Yellow butterfly,
does the white blossom please you?
Will you settle there?
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Chilling
Saguaro cactus on the outskirts of Ajo, Arizona
A cactus alone on a hill,
When winter came, took a great chill;
It sneezed and it snoozed,
It freezed and it froozed,
That cactus alone on a hill.
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A lone saguaro
pierces the clouds at sundown
with its deadly spines.
Limerick, haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Daybreak
Daybreak with a saguaro, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Fallen
A fallen saguaro cactus, Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Southern Arizona
Fallen saguaro—
how many more moonrises
until I fall too?
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Evening
A saguaro cactus, Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Southern Arizona
Wilderness evening—
what key unlocks the secrets
hidden in the clouds?
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Distant
Shattered and desiccated remains of a saguaro cactus, Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona
tortured by the sun
things twisted and forgotten—
distant is the plum
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Straining
Saguaro cactus, Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona
autumn afternoon—
straining to hear a wren’s note
as shadows lengthen
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Piercing
Saguaro cactus, Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona
at midday
from saguaro spines
piercing songs
Haiku © 2015 and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
