Category Archives: wildflowers
Macro Monday 2: The Desert Blooms
Sand verbena, Yuma County, Arizona.
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Macro Monday 2: Poppy
A single California poppy brightens its surroundings.
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Macro Monday 2: Desert Blossom
A prickly poppy adds a bit of color to the landscape, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona.
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Macro Monday 2: Datura
Datura blossom, Riverside County, California.
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Macro Monday 2: Vetch
Wild vetch blossoms catch the last light of day, Palouse Falls State Park, Washington.
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Saguaro flowers
Saguaro cactus blossoms, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Saguaro flowers glowing
Against the bright blue sky
Fill me with greatest pleasure,
And here’s the reason why:
I think there’s nothing finer
Than seeing a white bloom
Juxtaposed against the sky
To chase away my gloom.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Finery
Prickly Poppy (Argemone pleiacantha), Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
in spring finery
a poppy by the wayside
reaches to the sky
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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No One
Some of the first blossoms of 2017: sand verbena in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
No one’s looking back with longing
For the chilly winter day,
When no flowers graced the hillsides,
And the sky was only grey.
No one thinks with fond remembrance
Of the barren hills and slopes
Now that spring has come with blossoms
To renew our dreams and hopes.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Tricks
Wild asters, Apache County, Arizona
autumn afternoon—
the tricks my eyes play on me
in the aster field
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Schoolboy
Sunflowers, southern Colorado
~~ 1 ~~
spreading jam thickly
on a slice of whole wheat bread—
ravenous schoolboy
~~ 2 ~~
pollen in the air
making the young schoolboy sneeze—
his homework scatters
~~ 3 ~~
A young schoolboy hops
froglike to biology
down the long hallway.
~~ 4 ~~
His former teacher
pats the schoolboy on his head
as though he’s her pet.
~~ 5 ~~
through summer-scorched weeds
schoolboys pushing their way home—
crooked is the path
~~ 6 ~~
Playground katydids—
schoolboys pay no attention
as they chase the girls.
~~ 7 ~~
Bored out of his gourd,
a schoolboy totes up reasons
for being outdoors.
~~ 8 ~~
The hottest schoolboy’s
unavailable right now,
having been grounded.
~~ 9 ~~
Little red capsules—
the schoolboy’s gulping them down
as fast as he can.
~~ 10 ~~
shoplifting schoolboy—
his teachers thought him honest
until his arrest
~~ 11 ~~
In this schoolboy’s life
someone needs to intervene
before it’s too late.
Poems © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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