Category Archives: Sky Watch Friday
Blue Monday & Ruby Tuesday Too: Marketplace
Need a gift? Head for the Chase Creek Marketplace in Clifton, Arizona. One photo, two memes.
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Photo and haiku © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Welcome
Early morning light brightens a cluster or organ pipe cacti and an ocotillo just starting to bloom at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona.
Welcome, Sister Sun!
I have been waiting for you
through the long, cold night.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blue Monday & Ruby Tuesday Too: Fire Engine
An antique fire engine is accented by a bright blue sky in Prescott, Arizona. One photo, two memes.
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Long Before Daybreak
A great horned owl perches in a tree in the Sonoran Desert, Yuma County, Arizona.
Long before daybreak
an owl in my backyard oak
tells me its secrets.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Fading
The winter sun sets over Yuma County, Arizona.
Day fades into dusk—
a dove returns to her nest,
singing one last song.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Sky
The sky is bold and beautiful in the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona .
Languid afternoon—
with my fingertips I trace
the clouds on your face.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Heart on Sleeve, er, Window: A Haibun of Imagination
An artist named Velma has hung her fanciful painting in an Airbnb in Yuma, Arizona.
You’ve heard of wearing your heart on your sleeve? Windows don’t have sleeves, so what’s a window to do? I remember a window hanging in a tree (don’t ask me why) that had it all figured out. It wore its heart like an ensign whipped by fearsome winds. Crows came from far and wide to admire the effect. Instead of jeering, as crows are wont to do, they cheered. Foxes hunting for a winter snack of mouse or vole looked up in admiration—probably because the heart was red as blood, and we all know how foxes love the taste of blood. Even the distant mountains seemed to approve—at least they didn’t shrug off their burden of snow and start an avalanche. The window frame seemed to take this approbation with equanimity. “See,” I could almost hear it say, “wearing your heart on your sleeve isn’t such a big deal after all. On Valentine’s Day it’s all about the love.”
Old men go to pray
at the place where dreams begin:
bend in the river.
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Squabbling
Sunrise comes to a little southern Arizona town on a crisp winter’s day.
Ignoring sunrise,
birds at the backyard feeder
squabble over seeds.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Evening
Shadows lengthen at day’s end, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona.
Wilderness evening—
the breath of a dying dove
settles in the dust.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Labyrinth
Shadowy vegetation surrounds a labyrinth in Phoenix, Arizona.
Deep in thought I walk
round and round the gravel path,
ignoring the sky.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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