Category Archives: shadows
Mysteries
Palo verde trees, planted to enhance a landscape, Southern Arizona
Shadowy mysteries emerge at day’s end.
Text and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Tolling
Mission San Juan Capistrano, Southern California
long before sunset
even the wren stops singing
to heed the bell’s toll
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tolling a bell for all seasons
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Framed
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
even the shadows
clamor for mountains to fall
and crumble to dust
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clouds and shadows framing the mountains
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Flung
Sunflower at daybreak, Southern California
Someone flung these stars
across the meadow at dawn—
bees claw at their hearts.
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Checkered
Garden shade at Sanguinetti House Museum, Yuma, Arizona
checkered shadows, not my checkered past
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Fishing
Puerto Nuevo, Baja California Norte, México
summer evening
a breeze turns leaves over
abandoned book
fishing among the shadows
she hopes to catch a fresh word
*Opening three lines © by Nicole the Local Artist
Final two lines and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Potter’s Field
Afternoon shadows lengthen in the potter’s field, Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona
in the potter’s field
far from any beach or strand—
a widow’s keening
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Warning
Sunrise, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
sun wheeling its course—
somewhere a raven quartet
croaks out a warning
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Creeping
Templo de la Purísima Concepción, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
first evening shadows
creeping up bright painted walls
and in dead men’s shoes
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Whispers
Abandoned feather, ruined house, Southern Arizona
amid the ruins
an ancient wisdom whispers—
feather in the wind
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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