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At your touch
at your touch on this cold night
I lean into your hair
which smells of moons and stars
gratefully inhaling the scent
that makes me tipsy
as a hummingbird
too full of nectar
the faces of our children
not yet born
will glow with wonder
when we tell this story
thirty years from now
and they will tell it to their children
speaking in hushed voices:
how a farmer loved his wife
through sixty years of drought and plenty
while suns and stars and planets
kept whirling round the fields
and wistful neighbors spoke with reverence
of the fertile pair
More Sunday’s Whirligig #144
More Poetry Pantry #386 at Poets United
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The palms,
filled with songbirds,
bow low to the earth.
Butterflies ravage
the carcass of a fox.
A farmer,
dazzled by his tomatoes,
flows in and out
of the here and now,
munching something
hallucinogenic.
The end is near,
and all the players know it.
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More Sunday’s Whirligig #127
More Poetry Pantry #369 at Poets United
Faith
Winter sunrise, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
the farmer’s children—
putting their faith in his hands,
the hands that plant dreams
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Faith”
Hardscrabble
Rusting gate on an abandoned irrigation ditch, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
hardscrabble farmer
disturbed by dreams of water
no longer flowing
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Counting
Melon blossom, Southern California
the melon farmer
counting blossoms one by one
in this year of drought
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Macro Monday 2
More I Heart Macro at Shine the Divine
More Carpe Diem: “Basho’s ‘Growing Melons'”
Longing
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Kentucky farmer
longing to plant an orchard
in the wilderness
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Carpe Diem: “Orchard”
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Melting
Irrigation canal at sunset, Southern Arizona
melting into the sea
the full moon
leaves a candle bright
inland a weary farmer
stumbles along the canal
*Opening gambit © by Jane Reichhold
Final two lines and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
More Carpe Diem’s Tan Renga Challenge: “Into the Sea”
Mice
Under chestnut leaves
field mice hide with pounding hearts
till the farmer’s gone.
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Chestnuts”
