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Haiku My Heart, Hosting for Rebecca: Birdsong
Backyard shrine, Los Algodones, Baja California Norte, México.
Near a backyard shrine
a wise and gentle woman
learns the songs of birds.
Haiku © 2018 and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Ruby Tuesday Too: Guardian
La Virgen de Guadalupe at a wayside shrine, Ajo, Arizona.
Photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Shrine
La Virgen de Guadalupe on a shadowy wall, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
At a wayside shrine
a weary mother pauses,
hoping to find strength.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Hush
Virgin of Guadalupe by artist Anado McLauchlin, La Cieneguita, Guanajuato, México
at the backyard shrine
even the crows hold their tongues—
hush of holiness
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Blue Monday
More Twelve Days of Mary at Recuerda Mi Corazon
Shrine
Shrine to La Virgen de Guadalupe (chicken wire to prevent birds from nesting), Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona
A little blue shrine
Is guarding the grave;
It stands as a sign
Of hope that all crave.
Poem and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Blue Monday
Festive
Japanese Friendship Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
In festive garments
they tell again the old tales
at the woodland shrine.
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Sunday Scribblings 2: “Tell”
More Carpe Diem: “Inuyama Festival”
Solitude
Wayside shrine, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
At the wayside shrines
those pursuing solitude
calm their restless souls.
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Blue Monday
Shrine
Remains of a dead Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis), Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
stripped of every leaf
willow in the wilderness—
desolation’s shrine
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Our World Tuesday
More Carpe Diem: “Shiki’s ‘The Cuckoo’s Cry'”
Hopeful
La Virgen de Guadalupe at a wayside shrine, Ajo, Arizona
ever-hopeful ones
stumbling to the wayside shrines—
great expectations
Text and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Haiku Heights: “Expectation”
Quietude
Backyard shrine, Los Algodones, Baja California Norte, México
pure honey of grace
in the daily quietude
of a backyard shrine
Text and photo © 2013 by Magical Mystical Teacher
More Blue Monday
More A Virgin a Day at Recuerda Mi Corazon
