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Sand
Puerto Nuevo, a fishing village south of Tijuana in Baja California Norte, México
Little grains of beach sand
Scattered on the street;
Little grains of beach sand—
Watch your tender feet!
There among the cobbles
Lie the prickly grains,
Guaranteed to give you
Aches and bitter pains!
Poem © 2017 and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Ruby Tuesday Too
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “A Grain of Sand”
Space
A field of debris, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
winter afternoon—
the space in a broken jar
filling up with sand
Photo and haiku © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Macro Monday 2
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Space”
Change
A rusting tractor, Yuma Conservation Garden, Yuma, Arizona
a change in fortune—
tractor that once plowed the earth
now rusts in the sand
Photo and haiku © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Ruby Tuesday Too
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “Change”
Bits
Fragment of a broken pot, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
scattered in the sand
bits of broken pottery
that no one can mend
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Blue Monday
More Haiku Horizons: “Mend”
Hidden
Autumn afternoon, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
ten thousand tulips
hidden somewhere in the sand
along with their scent
~~~ ~~~ ~~~
autumn afternoon
darting into the shadows
a terrified mouse
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Carpe Diem: “Tulip Festival”
More Carpe Diem: “Movement in Haiku”
Shoveler
Laborer shoveling sand to mix mortar (also called “mud”), San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
the sand shoveler
dreaming of cherry blossoms
and an ice-cold beer
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Blue Monday
More Our World Tuesday
More Carpe Diem: “Hangover/Cherry Blossoms”
Waves
Shadows of a yucca plant, White Sands National Monument, Alamogordo, New Mexico
A summer pilgrim
slogging through waves of white sand—
how aloof she seems!
~~ ~~ ~~
temporary waves
surging through the summer sand
only to subside
~~ ~~ ~~
waves of summer sand
erasing the pilgrim’s path
one whole day and night
Text © 2015 and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Summer Waves”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Aloof, Temporary, Whole”
Hunter
Ending
Long shadows at day’s end, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
As shadows lengthen,
ants snuggle down for the night,
their mother the sand.
~~ ~~ ~~
Shadows lengthen as the day ends.
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Six-Word Saturday
More Shadow Shot Sunday 2
More Carpe Diem: “A Mother of Stone”
Tumbler
Discarded plastic tumbler, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
the juggler fumbles—
a cup once full now empty
littering the sand
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Macro Monday 2
