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Consolations
Detail from a tiny triptych at Fábrica La Aurora, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
The painting itself is about the size of a U.S. quarter-dollar coin.
on the pilgrim way
a mother’s consolations
and the piercing thorns
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Haiku My Heart and Twelve Days of Mary at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Small Consolations
~~ 1 ~~
in a field of maize
southward seven miles or more
three marauding crows
~~ 2 ~~
puzzling over why
the brown donkey at daybreak
still sleeps in the straw
~~ 3 ~~
a Kansas farmer
still leaning into the wind
after forty years
~~ 4 ~~
planting a garden
twenty years in the same place—
corn pollen poems
~~ 5 ~~
a famished people
looking to depleted soil
for their daily bread
~~ 6 ~~
a strand of brown hair
the width of a dying breath
caught in the wren’s mouth
~~ 7 ~~
an open Bible
warning of the pestilence
that lurks at noonday
~~ 8 ~~
her longing to be
a mystic on the mountain—
no more scrubbing floors
~~ 9 ~~
her feeble attempts
to stay her wandering feet—
one more trip to Rome
~~ 10 ~~
hollow promises—
tongues clattering empty vows
on their wedding day
~~ 11 ~~
purple rebozo—
trying to ward off the chill
after the bad news
~~ 12 ~~
on the pilgrim way
consolation of ravens
and comfort of stones
© 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Poetry Pantry #251
More Sunday’s Whirligig #6
Prickly
A stand of Cholla cactus, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
in prickly places
the peace and consolation
of the pilgrim way
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Carpe Diem: “Peace”
After
La Virgen de Guadalupe, Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona
at her baby’s grave
the day after Valentine’s
no consolation
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Macro Monday 2
More Ruby Tuesday Too
More I Heart Macro at Shine the Divine
More Mornings with Mary at Recuerda Mi Corazon
More Carpe Diem: “Alexey Andreyev’s ‘Day After Valentine’s'”
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