Category Archives: Watery Wednesday

Puddle Wants to Know

Mar 28

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how to transition
from wastewater to ocean
puddle wants to know

 
Text and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
Photo: A neighborhood park in Southern California
 
More One Single Impression: “Transition”
 
More Watery Wednesday

Posted in One Single Impression, senryu, Southern California, Watery Wednesday

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Romancing the Wild

Feb 21

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You can’t step into the same river—or wilderness—twice. Something is always shifting. Something added today will be subtracted tomorrow.
 
Winds fray the grasses. Blowing sand burnishes the stone. A hungry hawk hovers overhead and the mouse runs for cover, leaving tiny tracks.
 
A midnight snowfall dusts tumbleweeds and junipers, cacti and spent wildflowers. I walk through a sparkling wonderland that yesterday was brown and barren.
 
In the desert, snow doesn’t last long: wonderland today, mud tomorrow, dust the day after that. Yet in all seasons, I love this wild place.
 
Romancing a place takes dedication, just as romancing a person. You set yourself to the task for better or worse; for richer or poorer; in sun or in snow, praying that indifference never tames the wild longings of your heart.
 

all the little stones
are singing in the washes
snowflakes kiss the notes

 
Text and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
Photo: Northern Arizona
 
More Poetic Bloomings: “Where the Rubber Meets the Road”
 
More The Haiku Challenge 2012: “Dedication”
 
More Straight Out of the Camera Sunday
 
More Shadow Shot Sunday 2
 
More Watery Wednesday
 
More SkyWatch Friday
 
More Himmelsk

Posted in Arizona, haibun, Himmelsk, Northern Arizona, Poetic Bloomings, Shadow Shot Sunday 2, Sky Watch Friday, Straight Out of the Camera Sunday, The Haiku Challenge 2012, Watery Wednesday

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Who Can Love the Frost?

Feb 14

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Who can love the frost,
gripping stone and twig and dust
in its deathly vise?

 
Text and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
Photo: Northern Arizona
 
More The Haiku Challenge 2012: “Love”
 
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday: “Love”
 
More Straight Out of the Camera
 
More Watery Wednesday
 
More I Heart Macro
 
More Macro Monday

Posted in Arizona, frost, haiku, I Heart Macro, Macro Monday, Northern Arizona, Sensational Haiku Wednesday, Straight Out of the Camera Sunday, The Haiku Challenge 2012, Watery Wednesday

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Painting Images

Feb 9

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Painting images—
is this the life I wanted,
though I could not see?

 
Text and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
Photo: Artwork displayed on the Malecón, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, México
 
More Carry On Tuesday with the theme “This Is the Life I Wanted, and I Could Never See” here
 
More The Haiku Challenge 2012 with the theme “Paint the Image” here
(I post only my own photos on my blog, so I have taken a different approach to the prompt.)
 
More Watery Wednesday photos here
 
More SkyWatch Friday photos here
 
More Ruby Tuesday 2 photos here
 
More REDnesday photos here
 
More Himmelsk photos here

Posted in Carry on Tuesday, Himmelsk, Jalisco, Malecón, Mexico, Puerto Vallarta, REDnesday, Ruby Tuesday 2, Sky Watch Friday, The Haiku Challenge 2012, Watery Wednesday

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Strike Up New Music

Feb 8

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Is there no relief
from winter’s wearying ways?
Strike up new music!

 
Text and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
Photo: Northern Arizona
 
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday with the theme “Relief” here
 
More Haiku Heights with the theme “Music” here
 
More Watery Wednesday photos here

Posted in Arizona, desert, haiku, Haiku Heights, Northern Arizona, Sensational Haiku Wednesday, snow, Watery Wednesday

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Soon It Fades Away

Feb 8

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Self, be true, not false,
for false is desert snowfall—
soon it fades away.

 
Text and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
Photo: Northern Arizona
 
More The Haiku Challenge 2012 with the theme “This Above All, to Thine Own Self Be True” here
 
More Watery Wednesday photos here

Posted in Arizona, haiku, Northern Arizona, snow, The Haiku Challenge 2012, Watery Wednesday

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Holy Breath

Jan 31

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By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
 
Job 37:10, King James Version
 

Crafting cruel frost,
flinging snow across the land—
frigid, holy breath!

 
Text and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
Photo: Northern Arizona
 
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday with the theme “Craft” here
 
More Straight Out of the Camera photos here
 
More Mellow Yellow Monday photos here
 
More Watery Wednesday photos here

Posted in haiku, Scripture, Sensational Haiku Wednesday, Straight Out of the Camera Sunday, Watery Wednesday

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Dust of Snow

Jan 24

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Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire, and hail; snow and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
 
Psalm 148:7-8, King James Version
 

Is it your singing
that I find so fulfilling,
stormy dust of snow?

 
Text and photo © 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
Photo: Northern Arizona
 
More Straight Out of the Camera photos here
 
More Poetry Picnic Week 23 poems here
 
More Watery Wednesday photos here
 
More Macro Monday photos here
 
More I Heart Macro photos here

Posted in Arizona, haiku, I Heart Macro, Macro Monday, Poetry Picnic, Psalms, Straight Out of the Camera Sunday, Watery Wednesday

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Icy Morsels

Jan 18

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He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
 
Psalm 147:16-17, King James Version
 

These icy morsels—
who can stand before such cold?
Only sturdy souls!

 
Text and photo © 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
Photo: Northern Arizona
 
More Sensational Haiku Wednesday with the theme “Freestyle” here
 
More One Single Impression poems with the theme “Soul” here
 
More Watery Wednesday photos here

Posted in Arizona, desert, haiku, Northern Arizona, One Single Impression, Sensational Haiku Wednesday, Watery Wednesday

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Open Winter’s Book

Jan 12

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Open winter’s book.
Read once more the page that tells
why the snowflakes fall.

 
Text and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
Photo: Northern Arizona
 
More Haiku Heights with the theme “Page” here
 
More Share the Joy Thursday ruminations here
 
More Watery Wednesday photos here
 
More SkyWatch Friday photos here
 
More Friday’s Fences photos here
 
More Himmelsk photos here

Posted in Arizona, Friday's Fences, haiku, Himmelsk, Northern Arizona, Share the Joy Thursday, Sky Watch Friday, Watery Wednesday

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