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At your touch
at your touch on this cold night
I lean into your hair
which smells of moons and stars
gratefully inhaling the scent
that makes me tipsy
as a hummingbird
too full of nectar
the faces of our children
not yet born
will glow with wonder
when we tell this story
thirty years from now
and they will tell it to their children
speaking in hushed voices:
how a farmer loved his wife
through sixty years of drought and plenty
while suns and stars and planets
kept whirling round the fields
and wistful neighbors spoke with reverence
of the fertile pair
Poem © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sunday’s Whirligig #144
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More Sunday’s Whirligig #144
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Hope
Decorations on a Christmas tree at a Yuma County, Arizona church
Near a Christmas tree
children hope for miracles—
some things never change.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Faith
Winter sunrise, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
the farmer’s children—
putting their faith in his hands,
the hands that plant dreams
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Faith”
Voices
Puebla, México
a flowing fountain—
somewhere the liquid voices
of children singing
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Pajarito
Roses
Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona
Their children left blue roses
On their dusty grave
As a sign of gratitude
For the love they gave.
Poem and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Empty
Deserted beach, Puerto Nuevo, Baja California Norte, México
an empty seashore—
not even wayward children
picking up stray shells
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Our World Tuesday
More Carpe Diem: “An Empty Shell”
Present
Someone left a stone at Roxaboxen Park, Yuma, Arizona. (Read why people leave stones at Roxaboxen.)
tiny painted stone
present in the children’s park—
gravel speaks in tongues
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Haiku Horizons: “Present”
More I Heart Macro at Shine the Divine
Barbed
November sunset, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Fleeing their homeland,
a mother and three children
move from star to star—
four hundred yards from freedom,
barbed fencing crushes their dream.
Tanka and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Petal
Bugambilia (bougainvillea), Los Algodones, Baja California Norte, México
If you have no star,
then wish upon a petal—
wee ones know it works.
Text and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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