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Grin
Autumn decoration on a grave, Wellton Memorial Cemetery, Wellton, Arizona
With a crooked grin
a scarecrow honors blackbirds
and their many wiles.
Haiku © 2018 and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “A Tribute Poem”
Face
Autumn decoration on a grave, Wellton Memorial Cemetery, Wellton, Arizona
Before the new moon
the cemetery scarecrow
puts on a bright face.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
More Midweek Motif at Poets United: “New Moon”
Scarecrow
Gnarled ironwood tree, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
Adjei Agyei-Baah’s haiku about a scarecrow inspires me to write a new haiku about a different kind of scarecrow:
full moon─
a scarecrow watches
its own shadow
~~ ~~ ~~
desert scarecrow tree
flapping at clouds and shadows—
next time the full moon
Haiku in bold and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Carpe Diem: “Inspired by Adjei Agyei-Baah”
Birds
August sunset, Southern Arizona
a tattered scarecrow
puts on a new suit of clothes—
palm fronds at sunset
~~ ~~ ~~
enigmatic words
splashed blood-red against the sky—
ravens know the tongue
~~ ~~ ~~
a palm at sunset—
how the sparrows irritate
every thirsty frond
~~ ~~ ~~
gruesome little tales
wagged by pigeon tongues at dusk—
foxes slink away
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Carpe Diem: “Lolly’s ‘New Scarecrow'”
More Three Word Wednesday: “Enigmatic, Gruesome, Irritate”
Graces
Bugambilia (bougainvillea), Los Algodones, Baja California Norte, México
If you have no star,
then wish upon a petal—
scarecrows understand,
for underneath their straw hats
they grow the seasons’ graces.
Tanka © 2015 and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Carpe Diem: “Straw Hat”
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Strawhead’s Eyes
Scarecrow in the organic garden, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, Ireland
wind jostles the scarecrow
near the heavy-hung cornstalks
the summer is spent*
three crows that followed Jesus
have pecked out old strawhead’s eyes
*Haiku by Jessica Slavin
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Friday’s Fences
More Carpe Diem Tan Renga: “Wind Jostles”
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