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It’s Easy to Be Pious
It’s easy to be pious when hunger’s kept at bay;
The oily man adores you, although he’ll never say
Just why the drunken driver is waving from the bus,
Or why he wears upon his head a shoebox filled with pus.
O life is complicated, and that you can’t deny;
We all survive by exiting—so now, my friends, goodbye!
Poem © 2019 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Snowfall
Apache County, Arizona
somewhere a snowfall
serving hunger to wild things—
a waxwing falters
Haiku © 2015 and photo © 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Carpe Diem: “First Snow”
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Satisfied
Japanese Friendship Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
her hunger and thirst
satisfied in the garden—
the waters of grace
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Our World Tuesday
More Carpe Diem: “The Beatitudes”
More Straight Out of the Camera Sunday
Without
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
without potatoes
a great hunger in the land—
these dusty acres
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Carpe Diem: “Jim Kacian’s ‘Harvest Dusk'”
Holy Tree
Ironwood tree at dusk, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
holy tree
giving life to those
who hunger
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Crann Na Beatha”
Exploring Forgiveness
~~~ 1 ~~~
How many times, Lord,
must I forgive the people
who do wrong to me?
~~~ 2 ~~~
Tell me, Sister Crow,
do you forgive Old Raven
when he torments you?
~~~ 3 ~~~
The serpent hisses:
It is foolish to forgive—
get even instead.
~~~ 4 ~~~
How great my hunger
to forgive my tormentor,
yet I find no crumb!
~~~ 5 ~~~
Though I can’t forgive
and I am deaf to singing,
still I long for you.
~~~ 6 ~~~
Nothing that you do
can compel me to forgive—
stones lodge in my heart.
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Forgiveness”
