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Strident Voices
Strident voices fill the room,
Stripped of reason, dripping gloom;
In the yard among the ashes
Lie three shattered window sashes.
Mention them enough, they say,
And you’ll turn the night to day.
Later on when winter’s over
And the fields are white with clover,
And our conversations rust
(As we knew they surely must),
Maybe then the world will see
Everyone in chains set free.
Poem © 2021 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More The Whirligig #302
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More The Whirligig #302
More Writers’ Pantry #54 at Poets and Storytellers United
Famine or Feast?
In a little storybook that I read both day and night,
A man heaps feast-food on some plates, but keeps them out of sight.
His wrinkled visage dares to me reach for juice or wine,
But when I do, he slaps me with twisted fishing line.
My luck is next to nothing, I’m down and out, you see;
The table spread before me was never meant for me.
If you have hair, it’s easy to charm the serving-man
Who keeps the sideboard groaning with cake and wine and flan.
But if your hair is thinning and showing roots of grey,
The keeper of the sideboard will swat your hands away.
The moral of my story, if moral there may be:
There’s nothing wrong with hair dye, or using flattery!
Poem © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Sizzling
A summer day begins, Yuma County, Arizona.
Sizzling summer day—
the white dove will keep singing,
though humans grumble.
Haiku and photo © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Cloudless
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
On a cloudless day
not even crows fill the void
with their raucous songs.
Haiku © 2018 and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Task
Watching through my window as the Arizona sun rises in September
Little mourning dove,
singing up the sun each day—
this task falls to you.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Unity
Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Three ducks on a pond,
in unity of purpose,
seek the day’s first catch.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Unity”
Winter
December sunrise, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
first day of winter—
looking in vain for snowflakes
at the sun’s rising
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Dawn
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
birth of a new day—
songs emerging from each leaf
celebrate the light
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Threat
Another sizzling day begins, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
first day of autumn—
an equatorial threat
knifing through the trees
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Equator”
Sunrise
A new day begins, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Just before sunrise
a mourning dove fluffs her wings
for the day’s first flight.
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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