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Shadow Shot Sunday 2: Blossoms
Lighting

Palo verde blossoms, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Lighting the desert with new blossoms…
Text and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Blossoms

Showers of blossoms on a palo verde tree, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
first golden blossoms
enriching the wilderness—
one saint bows her head
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Sweetness

Blossoms of a Palo verde tree at sunrise, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
on the blossom way
sniffing the air hungrily
for all the sweetness
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Entangled

Palo verde trees, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
entangled
in crooked branches—
morning light
Haiku © 2015 and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Fattening

Palo verde blossoms, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
over the wasteland
waving a witch hazel wand
to fill in the blanks
with blossom upon blossom
fattening on noonday sun
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Glow

Palo verde trees in bloom as shadows lengthen, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona, March 2015
“Let your colors out,”
the sky says to the desert,
“let your colors out.”
~~ ~~ ~~
Even at dusk the blossoms glow.
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Spent

Fallen blossoms carpet the ground under a Palo verde tree, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
ghosts of passing spring—
spent palo verde blossoms
littering the earth
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Bones

Dead palo verde tree, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Palo verde bones,
within you lies a spirit,
bidding you to dance.
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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