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Birds, Songs, and Longings

Feb 26

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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

 

Posted in 5-7-5, haiku, Haiku My Heart, Poets & Storytellers United, The Whirligig

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Blue Monday: At the Lake

Oct 14

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A bright-blue autumn sky is reflected in a lake in Inyo National Forest, California.
 
 


 
 
Photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
 
BLUE MONDAY BADGE

 
 
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Song

Oct 14

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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
 
 
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Posted in 5-7-5, Arizona, Coconino County, Coconino National Forest, haiku, Haiku My Heart, Recuerda Mi Corazon, Sky Watch Friday

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Fishing

Jul 18

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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.
 
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In a sea of weeds
a lone sunflower fishes
for its lost shadow.

 
Haiku in bold and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
 
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More Carpe Diem: “Utabukuro #5”

Posted in 5-7-5, Carpe Diem, Northern Arizona, Richard Wright, Sky Watch Friday, wildflowers

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Snapping

Sep 15

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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'”

Posted in Carpe Diem, haiku, O. Mabson Southard

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