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The Apartment: a Fictional Haibun
Until I rented this apartment (pink flamingos flank the door!), I had to walk up three long flights of stairs. Now I’m on the ground floor, and even have a little kitchen garden, where I grow basil, chives, and parsley. I’ve squeezed in one tomato plant and one pepper. After supper each night, I set aside my sorrows (who knew that life could be so difficult?), and pore over maps of far-off places, dreaming of cruises that last for years, not weeks. Could there be a better way to spend my twilight days?
Burn down, white candle,
veer off course, distant planets—
my wineglass is full!
Haibun © 2019 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Sunday’s Whirligig #231
More Poetry Pantry #493 at Poets United
Sorrows
Juvenile ironwood tree armed with thorns, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
the pilgrims’ pathway
littered with thorns and sorrows—
still they stumble on
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Lengthening
Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona
As shadows lengthen, so do sorrows.
Text and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Protected
San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
a house protected
from the powers of darkness—
only three sorrows
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Sorrows
La Virgen de Guadalupe guarding a headstone, Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona
from the deep waters
drawing yet another draught—
the well of sorrows
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Rainless
Old wooden door, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México
Whenever I travel to Mexico, I look for interesting doors, so Richard Wright’s haiku speaks to me:
Quickly vanishing,
The first drops of summer rain
On an old wood door.
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on an old wood door
the sorrows of rainless days
brushed in shades of blue
Haiku in bold and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Crow
Sunrise glimpsed through the branches of an ironwood tree, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
the way to my house
bestrewn with thorns and sorrows—
crow on the mountain
his tedious yammering
smearing the sun in the east
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the way to my house
bestrewn with thorns and sorrows—
the eyes of a crow
reflect the burning mountain
just before sunrise
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the way to my house
bestrewn with thorns and sorrows—
at the sunrise hour
a crow with its mocking song
lays waste the mountain
Tanka and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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House
Sunrise glimpsed through the branches of an ironwood tree, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona
the way to my house
bestrewn with thorns and sorrows—
crow on the mountain
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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More Carpe Diem: “House”
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