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Flee From the Kitchen
Flee from the kitchen, live on the porch;
August is glowing hot as a torch.
Cover yourself with rags or with strips,
Drink from a bucket, smacking your lips.
Dream of crisp apples, cinnamon toast,
A knife too dull to carve Sunday’s roast.
As the Earth turns and takes you along,
Make up a ditty, sing a new song!
Poem © 2020 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Cover
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
October morning—
a wounded bird takes cover
in a tangled tree.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Autumn”
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On the shore of Upper Lake Mary, Coconino National Forest, Arizona
autumn cloud cover—
ten thousand hidden creatures
cower in the woods
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Invisibility”
A Whiff of Christmas
This week’s Sunday Whirl words: fix, apart, snatch, cover, pair, angel, waves, simple, box, clay, lies, moon
~~ 1 ~~
Fix the broken tale,
tinkering with every word
till it sings again.
~~ 2 ~~
Apart from her dreams
she becomes a flightless wren,
her left wing broken.
~~ 3 ~~
Snatch five minutes’ rest
and then resume your journey—
night is coming on.
~~ 4 ~~
Cover your eyes, child,
things too terrible to see
lie in wait for you.
~~ 5 ~~
Pair the figs and grapes—
ambrosial delectations
for our Christmas feast.
~~ 6 ~~
angel in the snow—
some child left it there today—
solace for the stars
~~ 7 ~~
waves of autumn rain
pommelling the pear orchard
the last withered leaf
~~ 8 ~~
simple the questions
convoluted the answers—
house wren weaves her nest
~~ 9 ~~
box of stale cookies
dusty on the pantry shelf—
Christmas long ago
~~ 10 ~~
clay Christmas angel
tumbling to the blue tile floor—
one unbroken wing
~~ 11 ~~
lies at Christmastide
separating wheat from chaff
Herculean task
~~ 12 ~~
Moon on Christmas night—
the Magi and the shepherds
look in vain for signs.
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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