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Macro Monday 2: Cactus Blossom
Autumn is a good time to remember cholla cactus blossoms in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California.
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Blue Monday: Cholla
A bright blue sky highlights a variety of cholla cactus, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona.
A cholla perks up when the sky
Turns blue as an iris—but why?
I’m not sure I know,
But surely it’s so,
And that’s good enough—it’s no lie!
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Macro Monday 2: Cholla Blossoms
Cholla cactus blossoms at daybreak, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona.
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Voices
Cholla cactus, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
in the wilderness
a hundred thousand voices
cactus is but one
Haiku and photo © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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War
Cholla cactus blossoms at daybreak, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
You’d think that a cactus would welcome the light.
Instead, it was fighting with all of its might
The vanishing darkness, the lengthening day—
How strange was the battle I saw by the way!
The battle continues, or so I am told;
The stones and the sands repeat stories of old.
The warring goes on between darkness and light,
With cactuses getting caught up in the fight.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Cholla
Cholla cactus at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
Little cactus wren,
your nest in the tall cholla
blew away last night!
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blooms
Cholla cactus blossom, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Only in the desert sands
Do cacti thrive and bloom,
Not on crowded city streets
Where there’s no breathing room.
If you find a place of sand,
Where human prints are few,
There the lowly cactus waits
To show its blooms to you.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Grace
Teddy bear (or jumping) cholla cactus near Ajo, Arizona
The desert is better than books,
No matter how barren it looks;
There’s grace to be found
In dry, dusty ground,
In spite of the absence of brooks.
Limerick and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Cloudless
Cholla cactus, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
Under cloudless skies,
chollas seem even brighter
than the noonday sun.
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Point
Cholla cactus, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
getting the point from a master
Text and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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