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Long Moons Ago
Winter full moon setting over Wellton, Arizona just before daybreak
Long moons ago I had a penny;
I thought it was a lot of money.
I clutched it, saying, “I’m so rich now!”
My father thought that I was funny.
The years have passed, I still count pennies,
But this I count a much greater boon:
To linger near the palms at midnight,
Admiring the fullness of the moon.
Poem © 2018 and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Money”
Perhaps
Rugged mountains near Ajo, Arizona
Perhaps a blackbird
will swoop down from the mountain,
perhaps the full moon.
Haiku © 2018 and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Coin
Full moon setting over Wellton, Arizona just before daybreak
A ten-rupee coin—
this also is a full moon,
fitting in my hand.
Haiku © 2018 and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Moon”
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
Poem © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sunday’s Whirligig #144
More Poetry Pantry #386 at Poets United
More Sunday’s Whirligig #144
More Poetry Pantry #386 at Poets United
Glimpses
Strawberry cactus, (Mammillaria dioica), Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California, February 2017
~~ 1 ~~
naked figurines
their alabaster bellies
shining in the light
~~ 2 ~~
somewhere in the ’hood—
poems kicked to the gutter
begging for mercy
~~ 3 ~~
at the hoarder’s house—
lockets stuffed with old photos
too many to count
~~ 4 ~~
a bloated old man
bathed by his daughter at noon
then tucked into bed
~~ 5 ~~
ambling down the street
with a basket on her arm—
market day again
~~ 6 ~~
The way the moon leans
into the battered dumpster,
you’d think it was drunk.
Haiku © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Macro Monday 2
More Sunday’s Whirligig #100
More Poetry Pantry #342 at Poets United
Haiku My Heart
Yavapai County, Arizona
Under ice-blue skies,
the scrub-oak-shrouded mountains
keep time with the moon.
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Lovers of small words and small poems usually gather each Friday at Recuerda Mi Corazon to share their haiku. Because Rebecca is in San Miguel de Allende today and next Friday, this will be our gathering place. Welcome!
Vying
Ironwood tree in bloom, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Among the blossoms
one vies with the crescent moon
for a brighter spot.
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Macro Monday 2
More Poetry Pantry #311
More Sunday Scribblings 2: “Among”
More Carpe Diem’s Summer Retreat 2016: “One with Nature”
Ragged
Brittlebush in bloom, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
brittlebush blossoms
even the ragged edges
outshine the full moon
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Blossoming
Moonrise at Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, Southern California
Yosa Buson’s haiku about pear blossoms and moonlight inspires me to write a new haiku:
White blossoms of the pear
and a woman in moonlight
reading a letter.
~~ ~~ ~~
the moon blossoming
just enough for a woman
to write love letters
Haiku in bold and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Carpe Diem: “Favorite Haiku by Buson”
Knitting
Apache County, Northern Arizona
old woman knitting
three songs for the waxing moon—
one about fences
Text © 2015 and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Tonight’s Moon”
three songs for the waxing moon—
one about fences
Text © 2015 and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Tonight’s Moon”
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