Category Archives: Twelve Days of Mary
Weather-beaten
A weathered statue of La Virgen de Guadalupe, Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona
O battered Guadalupe,
What is there to celebrate?
Your gown’s reduced to tatters
Even as you watch and wait.
Yet in your loving presence
We find mercy, peace and grace,
For there’s unending sunshine
In your weather-beaten face.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blue Monday: Keeping Watch
A bust of the Virgin Mary, Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona
Mary, aren’t you weary yet
Of keeping watch by day and night?
Where we see only darkness,
It seems that you see only light.
If we were not so broken,
Perhaps we’d see things as you do;
But we’re the walking wounded,
Mary, and not at all like you.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Watcher
A tile depicting La Virgen de Guadalupe is affixed to a headstone. Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona.
Season by season
the watcher keeps on watching
and a blackbird sings.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Love
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 © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Mary’s Song
In a niche above a grave, La Virgen de Guadalupe watches and waits at Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona.
Just before Christmas
the mourning doves and blackbirds
join in Mary’s song.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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The Vanity of Riches
La Virgen de Guadalupe protects a grave, Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona
The vanity of riches,
The poverty of wealth—
No woman with a sound mind
Thinks she can buy good health.
Shrouds have no ample pockets
For silver, gems or gold.
We go out empty-handed—
Life can’t be bought or sold.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Vanity
Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona
It is vanity to think
That unknown mothers matter!
In the larger scheme of things
They are but idle chatter!
Thus, the cynics have their say,
And yet so many others
Fervently proclaim each day:
“We won’t forget our mothers.”
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blue Monday: Mary
A statue of the Virgin Mary, Ajo, Arizona
Mary, are you feeling blue?
Are you feeling weary?
All the beggars come to you,
And their eyes are bleary.
Seeking favors from your hand,
They clamor and they shout.
Is it more than you can stand
To have them round about?
But your ways are not our ways,
Your hands are filled with grace,
Which you pour out on the strays
Of our ungrateful race.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Even
Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona
Even the blackbird
pauses at the graveyard fence
before moving on.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Shrine
La Virgen de Guadalupe on a shadowy wall, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
At a wayside shrine
a weary mother pauses,
hoping to find strength.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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