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Five Little Sillies
Can you be happy in your distress
Or will you just suffer and be a mess?
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Bitterness! Now, there’s a thought,
Something that I think I ought
Never, ever to embrace—
Let me look into your face.
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It’s better, I think, to shift your eyes
Away from the things that spell your demise
And focus instead on the good and true.
Well, that’s what I think. Now, how about you?
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Walking through the fog alone,
Gnawing on a raven’s bone
Makes me want to shout, not sing:
Wish I had the raven’s wing!
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I’m emboldened to do deeds
That will take me far from Leeds;
Never mind my indigence,
I will make my way to France.
Poems © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sunday’s Whirligig #171
More Poetry Pantry #412 at Poets United
Guide

Mid-December rainbow, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
last autumn rainbow
guiding my stumbling steps home—
wind shifts to the east
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More SkyWatch Friday
More Haiku My Heart at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Tricks

Watson Lake, Prescott, Arizona
how the light plays tricks—
a mountain in the distance
seems to shrug and shift
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Blue Monday
More Our World Tuesday
More Monday WRites #81
More Haiku Horizons: “Trick”
Shot

Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, Southern California
a quick cell-phone shot
before the sands shift again—
windstorm to the east
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Blue Monday
More Haiku Horizons: “Shift”
Playing

An artist’s rendering of a street scene after the catastrophic 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The painting hangs in a church in Southern Arizona.
playing in the street
even after the earth shifts—
a boy in blue shoes
Capturing

Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, Southern California
his phone camera
capturing the sands before
they shape-shift again
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher