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Shrine
La Virgen de Guadalupe on a shadowy wall, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
At a wayside shrine
a weary mother pauses,
hoping to find strength.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Where
Wixáritari woman on Cerro de la Bufa, Zacatecas, México
Where, O where, has my little boy gone?
Where, O where, can he be?
I’ve looked for him high, I’ve looked for him low,
I’ve looked for him up in a tree!
The moment I find him, what should I do?
(I fear the search will be long.)
The thing every other mother would do:
Love him and sing him a song.
Poem © 2016 and photo © 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Weeping
Virgin of Guadalupe on the headstone of a woman who died at age 29, Wellton Memorial Cemetery, Wellton, Arizona
last days of autumn—
somewhere a mother’s weeping
for a daughter lost
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Consolations
Detail from a tiny triptych at Fábrica La Aurora, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
The painting itself is about the size of a U.S. quarter-dollar coin.
on the pilgrim way
a mother’s consolations
and the piercing thorns
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Single
Mother and child, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
A single mother,
feeling hard stares from the crowd,
hurries far away.
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Social Stigma”
Refugee
Fishing boat, Puerto Nuevo, Baja California Norte, Mexico
refugee mother
huddling beneath the blue boat
nurses her baby
Haiku © 2015 and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Scarf
Mother and child out for an early morning stroll, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
a thin scarf of light
wrapping mother and daughter
threads of morning grace
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Mysteries
Fábrica La Aurora, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
how a wise mother
weaves her children’s tomorrows
using threads of chance—
quotidian mysteries
falling from sensual hands
Tanka © 2015 and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Split
Chapel of Santo Niño de Atocha, Chimayo, New Mexico
how a mother’s love
makes even autumn sunlight
split the hidden seed
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Autumn Sunlight”
More Twelve Days of Mary at Recuerda Mi Corazon: Day 2
Ending
Long shadows at day’s end, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
As shadows lengthen,
ants snuggle down for the night,
their mother the sand.
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Shadows lengthen as the day ends.
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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