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Birds, Songs, and Longings
1.
As we near the lake,
geese arc over the water,
honking a greeting.
2.
Settling on her nest
at the water’s edge, a duck
keeps her egg clutch warm.
3.
Rippling mountain stream,
who composed the song you sing?
Surely not the crow!
4.
Drifting and gliding
over the ocean’s surface,
seagulls hunt for fish.
5.
Midwinter longing—
if I had wings like a dove,
I’d fly far away.
Haiku © 2021 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More The Whirligig #307
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
More Writers’ Pantry #59 at Poets and Storytellers United
More The Whirligig #307
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
More Writers’ Pantry #59 at Poets and Storytellers United
Blue Monday: At the Lake
A bright-blue autumn sky is reflected in a lake in Inyo National Forest, California.
Photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Song
Upper Lake Mary, Coconino National Forest, Arizona
If not the pine tree,
then perhaps the mountain lake
will teach me a song.
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Fishing
Lone sunflower, Northern Arizona
Although I don’t fish, I do love sunflowers, and so I am charmed by Richard Wright’s haiku:
Like a fishhook,
The sunflower’s long shadow
Hovers in the lake.
~~ ~~ ~~
In a sea of weeds
a lone sunflower fishes
for its lost shadow.
Haiku in bold and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Shadow Shot Sunday 2
More Carpe Diem: “Utabukuro #5”
Snapping
wolves on the lake shore
snapping at the morning mist—
a frightened loon shrieks
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Southard’s ‘The Cry of a Loon'”
