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Shadow Shot Sunday 2: Long Shadows
Long shadows streak the desert landscape of Yuma County, Arizona.
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Ruby Tuesday Too: Broken Bulb
A Christmas light long past its prime now litters the desert of Yuma County, Arizona.
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Oasis
The pond, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
desert oasis—
psalms older than creation
rising from the pond
Haiku and photo © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Poetry Pantry #4012 at Poets United
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Unpacking the Caskets
someone unpacked the caskets
at the cemetery
and laid the bodies face-up
on the lawn
where they now lie
as though they were sleeping
tomorrow the gardeners
who know the ropes
will be mowing around the bodies
and then they will desert them
for a body should not be
out of its box
these are the rules
nothing has changed
from the beginning
when people first buried their dead
Poem © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sunday’s Whirligig #158
More Poetry Pantry #400 at Poets United
More Sunday’s Whirligig #158
More Poetry Pantry #400 at Poets United
Macro Monday 2: Debris
A collage of desert debris, Yuma County, Arizona
I’m overseas until the 10th, so please enjoy visiting each other!
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Blue Monday: Desert Family
Detail from a mosaic on a community wall, Ajo, Arizona
We’re a desert family,
We know the ways of stones,
Cactus wrens and rattlesnakes—
The desert’s in our bones.
To snatch us from the desert
Would make our poor hearts ache,
For desert-dwellers cannot thrive
Beside an azure lake.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Poetry Pantry #362 at Poets United
The Dance
Dandelion, Apache County, Arizona
Noon.
A stone by the road
sets the scene
for the dance.
Farther down the road
a man without elbows
plays a flute
with his feet,
panting out wild notes,
and the desert,
which has waited
since it was created,
begins to stir.
Could anything
be harder
than shrugging off the eons
to shimmy in the sun?
Poem © 2017 and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Macro Monday 2
More Sunday’s Whirligig #106
More Poetry Pantry #348 at Poets United
More Macro Monday 2
More Sunday’s Whirligig #106
More Poetry Pantry #348 at Poets United
Light
A Yuma County, Arizona home still glows with Christmas lights in 2017.
Though Christmas is past,
light still shines in the darkness
of a desert night.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Blue Monday
Desolation
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
in desert places
no moss in which to bury
even a shadow
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Basho’s ‘Buried in Moss'”
Remembering
River stone, Roxaboxen Park, Yuma, Arizona
in a desert land
stones from rivers far away
muttering dark tales
~~~ ~~~ ~~~
fingering these stones
remembering the builders
and the destroyers
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Macro Monday 2
More Carpe Diem: “River Stones”
More The Art of Remembering at Recuerda Mi Corazon
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