Blog Archives
Blue Monday: Saguaro Blossoms
Saguaro cactus blossoms, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
Saguaros do not bloom at night;
In daytime they’re ever so bright.
Against a blue sky
They dazzle the eye—
O what a magnificent sight!
Photo and limerick © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
To link to Blue Monday, click on the Mister Linky icon below:
Daybreak
Saguaro cacti at daybreak on a spring morning, Pinal County, Arizona
just after daybreak
waiting for the cactus wren
to sing a new song
Haiku and photo © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Which
Two saguaro cacti tower over wildflowers during the spring 2017 “super bloom” at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
Noisy cactus wren,
which saguaro will you choose
for a nesting place?
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Woe
“Bones” of a dead saguaro cactus, Maricopa County, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Seven tales of woe—
even the saguaro knows
at least one of them.
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
More Carpe Diem’s Summer Retreat 2016: “One with Nature”
Weather-beaten
Dead saguaro cactus, White Tank Mountain Regional Park, Maricopa County, Arizona
in the wilderness
weather-beaten saguaro
keening for its loss
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Carpe Diem: “Weather-beaten”
Stitching
Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
in big sky country
hidden saguaro tailors
stitching light to air
~~ ~~ ~~
In big cloud country I diminish.
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Six-Word Saturday
More Shadow Shot Sunday 2
More Carpe Diem: “Words by Francis of Assisi”
Sisters
Saguaro cacti, Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, Southern Arizona
bearing up the sun
the old saguaro sisters
ruling sere domains
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Carpe Diem: “Creation/Ancestor”
Defiance
Saguaro cactus, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
life completes circle
at the end of the journey
death draws the last line*
final act of defiance
saguaro pierces the sky
*Haiku by Sara McNulty
Final two lines and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem Tan Renga: “Life Completes Circle”
Threnody
Saguaro cactus, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Southern Arizona
desert threnody
an old saguaro keening
for its glory days
© 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Ein Stück Himmel
More Carpe Diem: “Threnody”
Vision
Dead saguaro cactus, Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona
my sweat lodge vision—
an old saguaro’s carcass
crumbling in the sun
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Garry Gay’s ‘Sweat Lodge'”
