Category Archives: Sensational Haiku Wednesday
Imprinted
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
imprinted
on the desert sands
her night tracks
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Takahama Special”
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday: “Freestyle/Poet’s Choice”
Tower
Bell tower, Templo de Santo Domingo, Zacatecas, México
ancient bell tower
a piteousness of doves
cooing grace and peace
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Ein Stück Himmel #73
More Carpe Diem: “The Tower”
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday: “Freestyle/Poet’s Choice”
Three Storms
the storm’s destruction
how the midnight ravaging
cries out for healing
~~ ~~ ~~
a lanky stranger
an impending thunderstorm
alarm bells clanging
~~ ~~ ~~
her ultimatum
delivered during a storm
of venomous words
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday: “Storm”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Destruction, Lanky, Ultimatum”
Brambles
Does Moses believe
he hears a holy rumbling
among the brambles?
~~ ~~ ~~
Penitent pilgrims
lashing themselves with brambles—
their backs bloom with blood.
~~ ~~ ~~
Is this your tribute
to the high and holy One—
these deadly brambles?
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday: “Bramble”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Believe, Penitent, Tribute”
Snagged
Palo verde tree seed pods, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
kites by the thousand
snagged in palo verde trees
small boys never learn
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday, 200th Anniversary Edition: “Tree”
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday, 200th Anniversary Edition: “Tree”
Love the Wind
Wake up! Love the wind!
It has not come to harm you,
but to show the way.
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Wake up! Love the wind!
Those who have gone before you
follow in its wake.
~~ ~~ ~~
Wake up! Love the wind!
It has brought you to this place
and will give you roots.
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Verse First: “Wake Up and Love”
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday: “Wind”
Alone
They left her alone
to argue with the four winds—
her petulant tongue.
~~ ~~ ~~
They left her alone
to lick her wounds and ponder
an avenging move.
~~ ~~ ~~
They left her alone,
but saw her squint at the sun
as though she could see.
~~ ~~ ~~
They left her alone,
her mind no longer active—
a wilting iris.
~~ ~~ ~~
They left her alone,
her body a wizened shell
dissolving to dust.
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Verse First: “Body”
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday: “Active”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Argue, Lick, Squint”
Continuity
Sunrise, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
season by season
ancient spirits retracing
the wilderness way
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Ein Stück Himmel #64
More Carpe Diem: “Spring Equinox”
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday: “Continuity”
More Ein Stück Himmel #64
More Carpe Diem: “Spring Equinox”
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday: “Continuity”
Cruel
Royal Siamese,
you of cruel claw and tooth,
who would crave your love?
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Cats in Love”
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday: “Royal”
Quenching
starfire in my bowl
will not quench my burning thirst—
perhaps a dewdrop
~~ ~~ ~~
In the hay meadow,
seven farmers quench their thirst
with long draughts of ale.
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The fire within you—
no one can quench its burning,
for it is holy.
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday: “Quench”
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