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Blue Monday: Rocket Ship
Mural in Artists Alley, Ajo, Arizona
My rocket ship is blasting off—
Won’t you come with me?
We’ll sail a million miles or more
Through a starry sea,
Where deep within the Milky Way
Weird fish blink and gleam,
And fishers tell the strangest tales
As they wait and dream.
Photo and poem © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Deadly
Detail from a mural, Prescott Public Library, Prescott, Arizona
Shadows cannot dull a deadly blade.
Photo and text © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Six-Word Saturday
More Shadow Shot Sunday 2
Work
Detail from a mural, Ajo, Arizona
Woman, why are you
always doing holy work
on your hands and knees?
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Ruby Tuesday Too
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Holiness/Holy Day”
Blue Monday: Desert Artists
A mural in Artists Alley, Ajo, Arizona
Can a desert artist ever truly thrive?
Can she sell enough art to keep herself alive?
Or will she simply languish, dogged by poverty?
If you know the answers, tell them now to me!
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Painted Sky
Detail from a mural in Artists Alley, Ajo, Arizona
In the painted sky
three notes from coyote’s mouth
linger until dawn.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
The Plan
Detail from a mural in Artists Alley, Ajo, Arizona
Is there anyone to feed
The coyote in his need?
Who will soothe the fevered bird
With cool water and kind word?
Surely needed aid will come,
Unannounced by fife and drum,
Even as a stranger’s hand
Tends God’s creatures as God planned.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “The Kindness of Strangers”
Who
A mural in Artists Alley, Ajo, Arizona
Someone in the desert needs a helping hand;
Someone needs some water in this thirsty land.
Who will help the stranger out of her distress?
Who will offer comfort in the wilderness?
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Ruby Tuesday Too
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “The Kindness of Strangers”
Bent
A mural pointing to more murals in Artists Alley, Ajo, Arizona
Arrow, bent in the right direction…
Text and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Six-Word Saturday
More Shadow Shot Sunday 2
More Sunday Scribblings 2: “Bent”
Bold
Detail from a mural in Artists Alley, Ajo, Arizona
A woman (or so I am told)
Decided to be very bold.
She walked through a door,
Kept walking some more—
And all of her dreams turned to gold!
Limerick and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Ruby Tuesday Too
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Be Bold for Change”
Blue Monday
Detail from a mural in Artists Alley, Ajo, Arizona
A man with a monstrous blue hand
Was never quite sure where to stand.
Sometimes, he allowed,
He’d stand on a cloud,
But mostly he’d go for dry land.
Poem and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
